Senior Procurement Officer Global Grade 10

Barloworld Equipment (Pty) Ltd; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled procurement professional to enhance their sourcing strategies and supplier relationships. In this dynamic role, you will engage in negotiations, manage procurement processes, and ensure effective communication of supply and demand issues. Your expertise will contribute to the optimization of procurement operations, ensuring that the organization achieves its financial goals while maintaining high standards of supplier performance. Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and excellence in procurement, where your contributions will directly impact the success of the business.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of procurement experience, ideally across multiple regions.
• Strong negotiation and supplier management skills required.

Responsibilities

• Manage procurement processes and supplier negotiations effectively.
• Ensure accurate tracking and reporting of orders and spending.

Skills

Procurement Management

Negotiation Skills

Category Management

Supplier Relationship Management

Education

Tertiary qualification or CIPS diploma

Job description

Key Outputs:

1. Understand category strategies and sourcing plans to support their regional execution.
2. Ensure a full understanding of regional buying needs.
3. Identify future supply and/or demand issues to ensure a proactive and effective response.
4. Provide intelligence on potential or existing issues on orders, requisitions, and delayed deliveries.
5. Check accuracy of Framework PR data, ensuring that Framework PRs spend is signed off by Category Manager and Business.
6. Where contracts are not in place, select suppliers by getting quotations or executing the tender process (with support from relevant Category Analysts).
7. Negotiate all RFQs and pricing with the procurement officers.
8. Ensure the savings register is managed, kept, and communicated.
9. Sign off RFQs, provide guidance on evaluation, manage POs raised daily, weekly, and monthly.
10. Track the orders and report on the order status.
11. Follow up with suppliers to ensure correct delivery.
12. Inform relevant Category Manager/Analyst about supplier pricing and delivery issues.
13. Understand and keep up with macro-trends and regulations in the region and communicate findings with Category Managers/Analysts.
14. Communicate supply and demand issues/changes with relevant Category Managers/Analysts, ensuring spend out of contract is managed.

Weekly Reporting: Weekly reporting with business on spends outside contracts. Ensure that managers in local plants get the value agreed to from Category Management. Link local end users to sourcing actions to ensure new supply agreements are developed and implemented appropriately.

Keep a database of new suppliers that are being introduced. Proactively manage operational risks and challenges stemming from regions.

KPIs:

1. % spend by P2P channel by plant.
2. Number of days' reduction in P2P cycle time by plant.
3. Number of deviations in good receipts versus PO.
4. End user satisfaction.

Minimum Required Qualification:

• Tertiary qualification or CIPS diploma (or equivalent).

Minimum Required Experience:

• Three to five years' experience in procurement.
• Preferably experience in multiple geographies/regions.

Minimum Required Competencies: Core competencies: