Procurement Commodity Manager: Raw Materials at Clover S.A. Proprietary Limited

Job Advert Summary    

Clover is looking for a Procurement Commodity Manager: Raw Materials to reach savings targets; execute sourcing strategy; manage the contract life cycle and support the Buyer in carrying out their duties. This position is based at Clover Head Office in Roodepoort. 

Requirements    

• National Diploma
• Relevant experience in applying job related concepts, techniques and processes at the required level
• Experience in working with senior management
• People management experience 
• Business English: Fluent
• Computer literacy (Advanced)
• Code 08 Driver's license
• Travel off-site/overnight stay

Competencies    

• Ability to influence        
• Coach and develop people        
• Proactive and action orientated         
• Maintains high standards         
• Achieves Results Effectively        
• Build high performing teams        
• Business acumen        
• Lead and drive change for improvement        
• Collaborate with others to achieve a common objective        
• Commitment and motivation        
• Administrative capabilities        
• Thinking and reasoning logically         
• Application of financial principles and practices        
• Ability to negotiate         

Duties and Responsibilities    

Assist in commodity strategy formulation and responsible for execution of the strategy

• Drive the tender initiation process: liaise with business departments to identify the requirement, compile tender documentation, issue and receive tenders; facilitate the tender adjudication process: review, validate and evaluate offers, present tender findings to the bid evaluation committee and finalise the tender adjudication process; administer the process of awarding tenders.    
• Assist in collecting and evaluating commodity key economic indicators in order to formulate a realistic annual Raw Material or Packaging Budget and better than annual performs       
• Develop, evaluate, prioritise and implement cost saving initiatives; implement action plans to ensure the annual productivity target is reached     
• Analyse and verify proposed supplier increases by conducting market research and data analysis, price negotiations, obtaining approval from Category Procurement Manager, updating price formulas and standard costs  

Manage and minimise Purchase Price variances.

• Verify supplier rebates, invoicing suppliers for rebates, ensure payments are received timeously, update the rebate register and productivity tracker;  update mould register to ensure costs amortised in packaging prices are removed; timeously; Commodity/ Polymer Tracker updated timeously  
• Consolidate and report on delivery against savings targets; monitor and report on overall performance; track progress against savings plan, delivery of benefits targets and action plans; report on achievements of strategic and tactical targets on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis
• Ensure that commodity strategies adequately respond to directives, mandates and initiatives.      
• Conduct spend analysis to identify optimisation levers for strategic commodities.Contribute to continuous improvement in the sourcing of commodities     

Improve service levels to internal customers - Marketing, Product Innovation & Technology, Production, Planning & Distribution

• Represent Procurement in Project - New Product Development checklist maintained for all projects
• Projects updated in Microsoft One Note
• Obtain quotes, negotiate prices and updating price
• Confirm standard costs to Master files administrator timeously and assist with new vendor 
• Manage packaging phase outs and write offs with Buyer
• Provide accurate and timeous feedback and follow-up with regard to deviations communicated in the Daily Order fill rate: Monthly Deviation Report: Production; ad-hoc SMS notifications: Production; Notify relevant departments in a timely manner if a critical delivery is going to be late
• Ensure compliance to relevant legislation and policies 

Manage Supplier performance

• Draft Service Levels Agreements 
• Assist in negotiating Service Level and Master Supply Agreements conditions with Suppliers; 
• Manage contracts pertaining to his/her portfolio of commodities including the renewal or termination processes
• Ensure Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators are enforced       
• Manage Suppliers based on the Supplier management dash board:
• Master Supply Agreements and Service Level Agreements with key suppliers
• Performance measurement of key suppliers (Quarterly Supplier Evaluations)
• Risk strategy for key suppliers
• Growth rebate with key suppliers
• Price formulas with key suppliers
• Annual factory audits and visits to key suppliers

Communicate and maintain professional relationships        

• Share relevant information accurately and timeously with the relevant parties and escalate mistakes/problems to Category Procurement Manager immediately        
• Actively contribute to team objectives and team spirit; partner across departments        
• Constantly seek new ways of improving work processes and productivity, focus on improving own productivity        
• Demonstrate and develop technical/professional expertise in the raw material category