Procurement Manager at John Crane

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage the team of centralized commodity buyers based in South Africa
• Monitoring supplier performance and follow the Global sourcing rules
• Develop and maintain a regional procedure to manage and track indirect costs
• Define and implement a supplier development process including classification of vendors with onwards performance measurement
• Support MEA procurement standardization initiatives
• Update and maintain the purchasing procedure following best practice
• Build and maintain relationships with new and existing suppliers
• Oversee the inbound processes to ensure adherence.
• Negotiate contracts, improved prices and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings utilizing negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods
• Control Indirect and Direct costs and achieve savings as per annual targets
• Develop the purchasing team skills with a clear succession plan
• Research and evaluate areas of opportunity and reduce costs where possible
• Develop ideas to improve operational efficiency, add value and support the continuous improvement culture
• Promote SMITHS ethics and compliance standards
• Ensure that a professional and consistent approach is taken in relation to all supplier relationships
• Formulate and implement preferential procurement policies and procedures that are consistent with the provisions of the South African regulatory regime.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Tertiary qualification in Logistics or Procurement, Degree is preferable.
• Member of CIPS and/or APICS and/or CILT is an advantage.
• Extensive experience managing a purchasing department with technical value addition and similar functions of this job requirements.
• Experience in procurement of components for Oil & Gas markets with specific material certificates and end user specifications, but not essential.
• Delivered actual cost savings or other efficiency benefits within the organization.
• Experience of working in a multinational and multicultural environment.
• Experience in the creation of strategy, for part procurement, to reduce inventory holding, without creating “stock-outs”.