Senior Procurement Officer Global Grade 10

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, ensure 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 RFQ’s and pricing with the procurement officers
8. Ensure the savings register is managed, kept and communicated
9. Sign off RFQ’s, 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 with business on spends outside contracts.
15. Ensure that managers in local plants get the value agreed to from Category Management
16. 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.
17. Proactively manage operational risks and challenges stemming from regions

KPIs:

• % spend by P2P channel by plant
• Number of days’ reduction in P2P cycle time by plant
• Number of deviations in good receipts versus PO
• End user satisfaction

Qualification, Experience and Competencies

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:
• Analytical thinking
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving
• Judgement/decision making
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Applied business numeracy
• Excellence orientation
• Ethical behaviour
• Influencing and negotiation
• Time and self-management

Technical competencies:
• Analysis for business decision making
• Operational excellence
• Business acumen
• Supplier and market insight