Procurement Director – Packaging - Cape Town HQ at PepsiCo

Responsibilities

What we’re looking for:

• Leads the sourcing of Packaging categories, with a spend of $160MM, for all PepsiCo divisions in South Africa (Foods, Beverages, Snacks, Grains & Bakeries). Includes the development and execution of advantaged sourcing strategies, supplier selection, negotiations, as well as supplier and contract management. Primary liaison between Market Leads, BUs, Finance, R&D, Marketing, and Legal for procurement of packaging categories.
• Delivers maximum value across the entire procurement value chain through understanding and analysis of PepsiCo needs (global & locally relevant).
• Understands price and cost structure and their associated drivers. Optimises Total Cost of Ownership through leveraging internal & external drivers.
• Assesses the industry, political, economic & agricultural forces at play in order to build advantageous sourcing strategies for PepsiCo.
• Develops, formalizes & sells to internal stakeholders breakthrough procurement strategies that meet / anticipate Business requirements as well as changes of supply markets and related risks.
• Stays informed of industry developments, capabilities and market trends.
• Maintains a solid working knowledge of all laws, duties, taxes and regulations affecting purchase and delivery of assigned commodities.
• Evaluates supplier offers based on balanced evaluation criteria, i,e, cost, quality, service, innovation, sustainability.
• Leads negotiations with large suppliers with favoarbale outcomes, bring positive impact beyond pricing, in a complex business environment in packaging space.
• Develops & maintains balanced supplier evaluation score cards based on quality, cost, service, innovation, sustainability.
• Responsible for developing price standards for assigned components. Accountable on the same components for forecasting and analysing the Purchase Price Variance, Year over Year and performance versus market/competition.
• Develops effective communications with operating divisions and departments on commitments, costs, timing and performance of suppliers in regard to Packaging categories.
• Ensures that all suppliers comply with PepsiCo’s Supplier Code of Conduct and are approved in accordance with PepsiCo’s global standards and processes.
• Includes domestic and international travel for Business reviews and supplier meetings/audits.

Qualifications

What will qualify you for the role:

• Relevant tertiary qualification
• Seasoned procurement professional with 10+ years of relevant work experience
• Management experience is advantageous
• Analytical thinking: Ability to quickly analyse data and transform it into meaningful insights.
• Strategic thinking: Ability to translate strategies into plans that can be effectively executed.
• Communication skills: Communicates effectively to win support. Proactively shares information, best practice and ideas with others throughout PepsiCo.
• People Management skills: Encourages and coaches’ people to build their skills. Fosters a positive and inclusive work environment where people feel respected & valued for their contributions.
• Functional expertise: Very good knowledge of the blending value chain as well as the constituent juice market (supplier & competitor landscape, market fundamentals, agricultural forces, etc).