Procurement Project Manager at Santam Insurance

What will you do?

This career opportunity is available at Santam for the Group Sourcing and Transformation department that provides procurement support to the Sanlam Group. The role is based in Tygervalley, Cape Town.   

This role will report to the Head of Procurement to primarily manage and co-ordinate strategic procurement projects across the Sanlam Group. This role will also provide support to the Procurement Managers in executing strategic procurement projects that will improve compliance, drive procurement value and enhance the customer experience. The successful candidate will engage with multiple senior business partners to ensure a common understanding and consistent application of our procurement policy and processes. The project procurement manager will ensure all procurement deliverables and milestones are met within the required timelines, budget, scope and quality.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Classification of spend and detailed analysis of spend.   

• Development of procurement business cases.  

• Initiate procurement initiatives and development of approved category plans.   

• Sourcing and contracting management of commodities within the category procurement portfolio.   

• Management of costs and achieve savings against the budget.   

• Drive strategic sourcing initiatives and show acumen towards driving new initiatives.   

• Manage supplier relationships; manage contracted database and new contracts. Ensure necessary compliance processes are adhered to.  

• Manage and maintain various reporting platforms and validate system integrity and data quality.  

• Internal stakeholder management between procurement, operations/business and clients.  

• Attend and provide support in required Cross Functional Sourcing Team meetings.  

• Support the relevant procurement managers in ad hoc projects.  

• This will result in the following outcomes:

  • Cost savings  

  • Providing Client Delight in terms of optimal supply of    service; 

  • Providing “Best Practice” procurement processes to increase efficiency; and  

  • Supporting and upholding a team culture of 

  • Engagement

Qualifications and Experience

• BComm (preferable) or equivalent with any other relevant post graduate qualifications 

• Admitted Attorney with LLB or any recognised legal degree is desirable

• Member of Charted Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) and/or Project Management Institute (PMI)

• Minimum of 10 years practical experience in procurement and/or supply chain environment in financial services industry 

• Experience with Procurement transformation projects especially IT and digital procurement

• Experience in sourcing, contracting and supplier management across multiple spend categories

• Experience in the development and implementation of procurement policies and processes

• International experience on Procurement projects will be advantageous

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent ability to interact and work cross functionally within organization  

• Strong planning and organizing skills    

• Problem solving skills   

• Project and Change management skills     

• Ability to perform under pressure and deadlines  

• Presentation skills and excellent communication skills  

Core Competencies

• Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
• Customer focus - Contributing through others
• Drives results - Contributing through others
• Collaborates - Contributing through others
• Being resilient - Contributing through others

Who We Are

Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.   
 
Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. We’re about people. People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.   

At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as an employment equity goals we give preference to applicants key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions the demographics of our society. In achieving our Employment Equity targets.