Specialist Category Facilities (108120) at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

• Obtain support for total cost of ownership ideas by creating detailed and workable proposals, considering the strategic, commercial, economic, financial and management implications.
• Create, document and deliver structured and compelling commodity sourcing plans, based on data-driven insights, stakeholder needs and business objectives within a recognised strategic sourcing process.
• Develop close relationships with suppliers, generating trust, maximising mutual value and reducing risk.
• Assess and improve on suppliers' ability to deliver against agreed objectives and works to enhance suppliers' capabilities in line with Sasol's needs.
• Protect the organisation by identifying, assessing and mitigating source of supply and supplier risks.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Deliver qualitative, efficient and effective commodity strategies based on TCO principles, driving value beyond cost savings/continuous value.
• Strategically manage commodity portfolio to drive security of supply, risk mitigation and reduced cost base.
• Consider and balance business- drivers and risks to maintain required plant availability at the most optimal landed cost possible.
• Execute sourcing events in accordance with sourcing plan directives.
• Stay up-to-date with industry, market, process and technology trends and apply knowledge to investigate potential suppliers as well as conduct evaluations, certification audits, and quality quarantine audits on existing and potential suppliers.
• Understand changing business needs, analyse spend data, research trends and market dynamics to identify improvement opportunities and recommend new sourcing practices.
• Collaborate with supply chain delivery partners to support operating model entities’ spend goals, performance standards and output targets are achieved.
• Aid business units in relation to ongoing management of contracts, reviewing contract variations, and supplier exit plans for key suppliers.
• Perform Category Management processes aligned with requirements and adhere to Sasol compliance requirements, SHE practices and operating standards.
• Collectively work with category managers to develop processes that embed innovation and agility in the category management sourcing process.
• Provide technical expertise by evaluating supplier responses and preparing technical recommendations for supplier award process.
• Support/Perform issue resolution processes of supplier service and quality issues.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful implementation of commodity strategies in operating model entities and identify enhancement opportunities.
• Develop metrics and KPIs to measure supplier performance.
• Manage strategic supplier relationships.

Formal Education

• University Bacherlor's Degree

Min Experience

• 6+ relevant years

Certification & Professional Membership

• None

Competencies [Talent team will assist]

• Analytics: The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics
• Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
• Facilitation: The means of expediting a process or operation quickly and efficiently.  Particular focus is on meetings, but can include other processes such as the delivery of products and services where others are involved and their participation is critical to success.
• Integration: The consolidated view with various parts, circumstances, legislation, landscapes or aspects linked or coordinated.
• Negotiating: The ability to compromise in a cooperative effort to reach mutually satisfactory conclusions and results.
• Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
• Project Management: The process of planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to accomplish a well defined objective, usually within constraints of time, resources, and cost.
• Verbal Communications: Any exchange of words, either written or spoken, used to transmit information
• Written Communications: Sending of messages, orders or instructions in writing through letters, circulars, manuals, reports, telegrams, office memos, bulletins, etc. It is a formal method of communication and is less flexible

Closing Date: 28th, April 2022