Country Category Specialist - Midrand at The Coca-Cola Company

Job Description    

• Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) has an exciting opportunity in the Procurement Department. We are looking for a talented individual with the relevant skills and experience for a Country Category Specialist, which is based at CCBSA Head Office in Midrand.

Key Purpose:

• To assist the Internal Stakeholder in delivering on the Functional strategy, cost savings/value capture, risk mitigation and supplier relationship management.

Key Duties & Responsibilities    
Stakeholder alignment 

•  executes HQ CCBA Procurement categories in the country, leads contract implementation & drives contract compliance
•  Works in close collaboration with HQ CCBA Procurement Team to ensure local acceptance of new contracts.
•  Drive the implementation, execution and compliance management of HQ CCBA Procurement Leadership Team’s decisions.
•  Coordinate contract implementation tasks with Content Specialists and Internal Stakeholders.
•  Develop, implement and manage Service Level Agreements between CCBSA and supplier to ensure compliance to agreed strategically sourced contracts.
•  Closely monitor internal stakeholder contract compliance, define and take approved corrective actions to improve contract compliance in alignment with the HQ CCBA Procurement Team and the Country Procurement Manager
•  Assist the HQ CCBA Procurement Team with country specific requirements for the development of Category Strategies for certain categories in alignment with Internal Stakeholder requirements.
•  Supports with regards to the identification of stakeholders in order to facilitate strategy development and sourcing execution projects.
•  Build and enhance key customer relationships to ensure customer satisfaction within the business and the countries.
•  Ensure that all negotiated contracts are loaded and updated on all IT (ERP) systems as required.

Support key sourcing initiatives and management of selected key suppliers

•  Support the HQ CCBA Procurement Team in their role in providing analysis and support on the definition of the CCBA category spend baseline and category profile, incl. risk assessment and SRM strategy.
•  Provide information to HQ CCBA Procurement Team as per defined templates for requirements, analysis and market intelligence to support them.
•  Support supplier development activities for key suppliers aligned with the HQ CCBA Procurement team and strategy, lead cross functional review meetings with suppliers in order to improve performance and further reduce cost.
•  Represent Procurement in the country for the Innovation / Promotions forum for related categories.
•  Perform Category Manager activities for projects with limited complexity and execute end-to-end sourcing projects for less complex categories

Manage internal customer relationships for local categories

•  Manage internal customer’s feedback on procurement organisation and supplier performance.
•  Conduct periodic surveys to measure customer feedback for continuous improvement.
•  Sets up and coordinates cross functional supplier development programmes, following up and managing the relationship with internal customers and suppliers.
•  Improve and reinforce procurement’s profile and recognition within the internal customer community.

Manage supplier relationships for certain categories

•  In line with defined HQ CCBA Procurement Team strategy, support the classification and categorisation of suppliers, including supplier evaluation definition.
•  Continuously track supplier performance (utilising data / reports) and provide performance report to HQ CCBA Procurement Team.
•  Initiate and conduct supplier audits according to the defined framework under the guidance of HQ CCBA Procurement.
•  Identify potential contract improvement opportunities.

Skills, Experience & Education  

 Qualifications:

•  Minimum requirement: National Diploma in business or equivalent/high potential candidate.
•  Added advantage: Bachelor's degree in Business Management/Engineering/Supply Chain/Finance.

Experience

•  5+ years of business experience with 3 years minimum in Strategic and Operational Purchasing within a FMCG environment being an added advantage.

Additional Experience:

•  Recognised qualification in procurement would be considered an asset. In depth knowledge of procurement, both strategic and operational as well as preferably working in an international environment will be a benefit.