Senior Procurement Officer Global Grade 10 - Isando at Barloworld Equipment

Key Outputs

• Understand category strategies and sourcing plans to support their regional execution
• Ensure a full understanding of regional buying needs
• Identify future supply and/or demand issues to ensure a proactive and effective response
• Provide intelligence on potential or existing issues on orders, requisitions and delayed deliveries
• Check accuracy of Framework PR data, ensure that Framework PRs spend is signed off by Category Manager and Business.
• Where contracts are not in place, select suppliers by getting quotations or executing the tender process (with support from relevant Category Analysts)
• Negotiate all RFQ’s and pricing with the procurement officers
• Ensure the savings register is managed, kept and communicated
• Sign off RFQ’s, provide guidance on evaluation, manage POs raised daily, weekly and monthly
• Track the orders and report on the order status
• Follow up with suppliers to ensure correct delivery
• Inform relevant Category Manager/Analyst about supplier pricing and delivery issues
• Understand and keep up with macro-trends and regulations in the region and communicate findings with Category Managers/Analysts.
• Communicate supply and demand issues/changes with relevant Category Managers/Analysts, ensuring spend out of contract is managed. Weekly reporting with business on spends outside contracts.
• Ensure that managers in local plants get the value agreed to from Category Management
• Link local end users to sourcing actions to ensure new supply agreements are developed and implemented appropriately. Keep a database of new suppliers that are being introduced.
• Proactively manage operational risks and challenges stemming from regions

KPIs:

• % spend by P2P channel by plant
• Number of days’ reduction in P2P cycle time by plant
• Number of deviations in good receipts versus PO
• End user satisfaction

Qualification, Experience and Competencies

Minimum Required Qualification:

Minimum Required Experience:

• Three to Five years’ experience in procurement
• Preferably experience in multiple geographies/regions

Minimum Required Competencies:

Core competencies:

• Analytical thinking
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving
• Judgement/decision making
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Applied business numeracy
• Excellence orientation
• Ethical behaviour
• Influencing and negotiation
• Time and self-management

Technical competencies:

• Analysis for business decision making
• Operational excellence
• Business acumen
• Supplier and market insight
• Tertiary qualification or CIPS diploma (or equivalent)