Group Procurement Strategic Sourcing Manager (Port Elizabeth) at Aspen Pharma Group

Description
Overview

• Strategize, drive and integrate strategic procurement at site to support multi-category spend with focus on procurement spend analytics, procurement savings, supply risk mitigation, supplier performance evaluation, tendering, benchmark evaluation, etc., and develop sustainable, robust and cost-efficient procurement processes whilst implementing cost savings initiatives contributing to an effective supply chain.

Responsibilities

Procurement Strategy, Spend Analytics and Integration 

• Develop and implement strategies for procurement to ensure cost-effectiveness and mitigate supply risks aligned to overall business objective.
• Bringing in external data for internal and external benchmarking, in combination with the analytics to support savings opportunities for the site operations.
• Provide the site with dashboards for prescriptive, advanced, predictive analytics and data mining as well as ad-hoc analytics for procurement
• Be the first point of contact for procurement stakeholders for all their analytics requirements
• Accountable for developing and driving the sourcing strategies to support multi-category procurement spend.
• Support the team to prepare and solicit competitive bids, quotations and proposals, evaluate and advise on competitive offerings to determine the overall best offer for a product or service while overseeing relationships with external partners.

Supply Risk Mitigation 

• Support the site team to develop and implement strategies for procurement to ensure cost-effectiveness and mitigate supply risks aligned to overall business objective.
• Bringing in external data for internal and external benchmarking, in combination with the analytics to support savings opportunities for the site operations.
• Provide the site with dashboards for prescriptive, advanced, predictive analytics and data mining as well as ad-hoc analytics for procurement
• Be the first point of contact for procurement stakeholders for all their analytics requirements
• Accountable for developing and driving the sourcing strategies to support multi-category procurement spend.
• Support the team to prepare and solicit competitive bids, quotations and proposals, evaluate and advise on competitive offerings to determine the overall best offer for a product or service while overseeing relationships with external partners.

Procurement Management

• Facilitate, track and support procurement strategies aimed at optimizing cost and material availability/ supplier reliability.
• Build & nurture strategic relations with key suppliers to ensure preferential treatment to Aspen in terms of technical assistance, pricing & delivery of materials.
• Identify, evaluate and select suppliers for the new projects and support the group operations team in product costing, benchmarking, and cost optimization.
• Support the site procurement team in all the procurement initiatives including budgetary matters, spend analytics, procurement savings, supply risk mitigation, supplier performance evaluation, tendering, benchmark evaluation, etc.

Procurement Savings 

• Support and ensure to achieve the target procurement savings for the site by close coordination with relevant stakeholders.
• Identifying opportunities with top spent items across all categories to reduce the materials cost of goods.
• Manage suppliers to support site procurement teams to ensure that supplier deliverables and costing are aligned with group operations expectations.
• Achieving stringent cost reduction targets & implement and continuous improvement initiatives for sustainability.
• Manage the de-risking & business continuity plans.
• Guide category leads in implementing procurement & negotiation strategies based on nature of product, criticality, spend & market dynamics
• Implement, track, and deliver the new supplier qualification projects by coordinating with site teams for timely implementation.

Requirements
Skills Required

Background/experience

• Bachelor’s Degree / Diploma ideally related to procurement 
• Ideally 10 years’ experience in procurement
• 3 years’ of pharmaceutical, FMCG or chemical industry experience with knowledge of cross functional activities

Specific job skills

• Strategic Sourcing & Procurement
• Supplier Relationship Management
• Cost Savings / Contract Negotiation
• Spend Analysis/ Inventory Management
• Procurement Business Analytics
• Supply chain integration
• Pharmaceutical Project Management
• Risk assessment and mitigation
• Cross functional integration
• Internal and external customer management
• Extensive procurement knowledge with insight into pharmaceutical related manufacturing industries.
• Working knowledge of commercial contracting & pharmaceutical standards/ compliance
• Good knowledge of GxP
• Pharmaceutical Project Management 
• Product lifecycle management in Pharmaceuticals (API and Finished Product)
• Change Management 

Competencies

• Create the future 
• Make good decisions
• Lead and Influence others
• Take action with integrity