Procurement Manager

The Procurement Manager is responsible for overseeing the sourcing and acquisition of goods and services necessary for organizational operations, developing and implementing procurement strategies, managing supplier relationships, negotiating contracts, and ensuring cost-effective purchasing while maintaining quality standards.

Requirements

• Ensure utilizing all economies scale and best practices to win local battles
• Define and communicate the supply strategy and its implications, to inform and align the respective stakeholders
• Interact on an executive/managerial level within and outside the business to ensure cross alignment in the spirit of long term partnership
• Lead the delivery of the savings and operating cash flow programme in his/her Categories, Cluster and/or Business Unit
• Make timely decisions, balancing analysis with decisiveness
• Develop and make use of competitive insights to shape strategies that counter competitive threats
• Effectively engage in maintaining all external networks, and continuously builds alliances that will enhance Business’ competitive advantage
• Remove organizational barriers to delivering exceptional internal and/or external customer service
• Practice role model behaviour aligned with the operating framework
• Responsible to manage and optimize the financial and budgetary requirements as required
• Identify metrics, tools and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities and efficiencies
• Evaluate the challenges faced by the business and take action to mitigate risks and develop opportunities
• Drive continuous improvement, work simplification and the elimination of non-value-added work
• Drive operational excellence in strategic sourcing
• Support the implementation of HSE initiatives, participate in safety awareness activities, and contribute to incident reporting and resolution in alignment with company and IMS policies

Benefits

• Job security
• Career growth opportunities
• Competitive salary
• Benefits package
• Professional development opportunities