Category Lead (Port Elizabeth) at Aspen Pharma Group

Overview

• Lead supplier development, supplier negotiations, RFQs, and Category strategy for major suppliers​. Identification of continuous improvement opportunities

Responsibilities

Supplier management

• Communicate and negotiate with suppliers
• Monitor quality standards and identifies performance failures
• Conduct supplier audits and reports on supplier performance
• Manage supplier communications and documents and process flow, including RFIs, RFP, RFQ, and RFB’s
• Resolve supplier issues; maintain working relationships with key suppliers
• Set up new vendors and coordinate with legal to support new contracts; maintain/ update existing contracts
• Identify new suppliers and products in the marketplace
• Vet potential supplier’s capabilities (delivery, quality, services)
• Review insourcing and outsourcing opportunities
• Negotiate with suppliers to carry stock for fast moving items
• Assist in the drafting of specifications as required, and provide advice and guidance to customers on procurement processes
• Review and approve price variances (Order vs Invoice Prices)
• BBBEE and procurement administration

Risk management

• Maintain and report on adherence to internal and external compliance requirements
• Actively reduce third-party risk exposure
• Carry out risk management processes within Category  category

Quality and qualifying products

• Assist quality teams to obtain products needed to conduct finished product testing
• Schedule product trials and coordinate samples

Reporting and record keeping

• Maintain repository of procurement-related knowledge
• Maintain complete, compliant documentation of purchasing activities
• Maintain standards and updates SOPs for documentation and filing requirements

Budgeting

• Manage and optimise use of Category budget
• Provide input into required changes in resources to enable achievement of objectives
• Monitor and track and reports on expenditure against budget

Planning and coordination

• Optimise processes, identify gaps in policies, procedures and legislation, and propose changes or improvements to management
• Provide technical advice to internal stakeholders

Job Requirements

Background/experience

• 6 years' experience in a manufacturing procurement environment, and preferably with significant experience in a Category environment.
• National Diploma in (Procurement, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Finance), or a related discipline

Specific job skills

• Computer literacy

Customer Awareness

• Meeting Deadlines
• Making Decisions
• Planning and Organising
• Interrogating Information