Sourcing Coordinator: Ingredients at Tiger Brands

Job Description

• You will provide overall support to the category team whilst growing your procurement experience and technical skills for a future career in sourcing. You will support the team in administering RFX processes and system contracts, administering supply queries from sites and maintaining key category data (approved vendor listing, contracts, BEE data etc). You gain a detailed understanding of the characteristics of your respective commodity and understanding Tiger Brands’ business needs to be able to identify new procurement value opportunities in line with the Commodity Strategy

Responsibilities

• Conduct selected Tiger Brands RFQ’s on Zycus under guidance from Category Manager.
• Engage in Supplier discussions for contracts and NDAs with the support of the Commodity Manager
• Engage in budget setting with the support of the Commodity Manager
• Exposure to other functions / categories within Procurement e.g. Finance, Directs, Indirects
• Loading quarterly pricing in the system (quarterly pricing) ensure that site is aware, and systems reflect correct & agreed prices.
• Ensure Data accuracy on Oracle.
• Deal with pricing queries and resolve PPV’s.
• Resolve accounts payable queries.
• Spend data analysis
• Work within Procurement policies and procedures
• Provide ad-hoc reporting and administrative tasks for Sourcing Manager
• BBBEE (and EPR where applicable) certificate and reporting maintenance
• MSA, CI and NDA tracking and collating specifications
• Supplier Audit co-ordination with Quality
• Complete commodity ZBM’s (manual and Oracle) and update system contracts / quotations
• Maintain key category data within Procurement databases (specifications, MOQ’s, lead times, cover positions, etc.) and category register key data on savings and contracts
• Own the vendor listing for the commodity by maintaining the vendor portal key data: MRP supplier data, AVL (supplier classification, BEE status, contract status, supplier certifications and material pricing data
• Maintain and resolve system pricing queries from sites including pricing of new items

Qualifications
Key Professional Competencies

• Core knowledge –  Operational procurement, Procurement systems, Cost management & ZBB

Key foundational competencies

• Academic – Analytical skill, Problem solving, Applied science and technology
• Leadership – Owning it!, Driving long-term results, Staying a step-ahead
• Personal Effectiveness – Effective communication, Interpersonal skills, Integrity, Creativity, Continuous learning,

Experience

• Function – 1+ years experience procurement
• Industry – N/A