Career Opportunities at Puma Energy

Main Purpose:

The category manager has responsibility for the sourcing, procurement and commercial performance of suppliers of the category generating added value and cost savings regionally.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Understanding Business Requirements

• Develop great working relationships with internal stakeholders across category portfolio.
• Ensure all business requirements are considered in line with set company policies and procedures as well relevant legislation.
• Take a short, medium and long term view on business requirements.

Spend Analysis

• Utilizes spend data to determine opportunities and priorities across all business units, categories and sub-categories
• Provides rigorous analysis of spend data and ensures that spend is effectively tracked and managed on a regular basis

Market Analysis

• Supplier and category segmentation
• Evaluate market summary data to make effective sourcing decisions
• Develop and implement a strategy to manage and mitigate the supply chain risk associated with suppliers in the category
• Lead and contribute towards the development of TCO models for key categories jointly with the Cross Functional Sourcing Team (CFST) and project managers were relevant.
• Conduct supplier risk assessment

Planning

• Develop sourcing or category strategies to support business requirements
• Identifies risks to supply and mitigates them where necessary
• Establishes robust prioritization of workload based on where most value can be added, balancing short term stakeholder requirements with medium to long term value adding actions.

Category Management

• Lead the business through the 7-step process.
• Deploying strategic analytical tools to identify insights.
• Present options to the suppliers
• Works cross functionally and involves support functions relevant throughout the process.
• Formulate negotiation strategy and lead process.
• Prepare bid adjudication analysis and recommendation for approval as per Delegation of Authority
• End to end management and reporting on the performance of the category

Contract Management

• Negotiate and manage high value, critical and strategic commodity and service contracts - including amendments, price adjustments, verifying price increases and general contract administration
• Integrate Business Unit contracts into framework agreements
• Ensuring the effectiveness of the Contracts by:
• Communicating negotiated contracts to affected stakeholders
• Benchmarking both pricing and commodity performance of strategic commodities against industry peers
• Increasing company-wide contract expenditure
• Reviewing supplier performance and contractual compliance regularly

Supplier Relationships 

• Managing strategic supplier relationships
• Represents Puma in relationships with suppliers.
• Has the skills and experience to develop suppliers

REQUIREMENTS

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree ideally with a further qualification in Procurement / Supply chain / Business
• Extensive industry experience
• Demonstrate working successfully across countries.
• Able to demonstrate agility and efficiency in execution.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Quality management – ability to set standards, processes, services and systems.
• Relationship building skills.
• The ability to act autonomously and deliver in different circumstances, clients, industries is critical.
• Propensity to learn new commodities and industries is critical.
• Attention to detail and analytical ability is required.
• Sound commercial knowledge.
• Business acumen.
• Good communication and negotiation skills.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Power Point and Excel.
• Confident and proactive self-starter – go getter!

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Main Purpose:

Leadership of Procurement resources (direct reports) to deliver the efficient procurement of day to day requirements of the business. Understands and analyses processes and outputs to improve effectiveness of operations whilst ensuring all elements of procurement controls are upheld. 

Develops the skills and outputs of the team, by providing tools and training and positively challenging existing ways of working, towards achieving business goals, always with high levels of compliance with Puma policies, guidelines and procedures.

Serves as Business Engagement Leader (BEL) with key stakeholders across Puma’s operations in the region ensuring procurement annual plans and targets are agreed and built into business plans. 

Works very closely with global and regional category teams to ensure these teams are well infoprmed and that solutions are fit for purpose throughout the region

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leadership and development of Procurement operations team to create and sustain a team that thinks regionally and acts locally to optimize efficiency and capture benefits. Ensures direct reports comply with Procurement strategies, overall business objectives and company policies.
• Ensures sourcing activities are conducted efficiently and that Puma’s expenditure is spent wisely across the region
• Supervises and coordinates activities of subordinates, such as work schedules, category strategies, dashboards, procedures, duties, performance evaluations and performance development plans. Responsible to provide tools, training, communication venues. Develops direct reports, in order to foster continuous improvement. Recognizes the good performers and pursues their growth as business leaders. Takes action on low performers, by providing development plans in order to keep them focused on areas of improvement.
• Develops Procurement plan relevant to each budget holder in the region to include sourcing strategies and processes focused on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) concept. Promotes the use of Process Excellence and its tools in all sound business processes.
• Performs as Business Engagement Leader (BEL) developing deep expertise across Lines of Business (LOB) activities in order to feed this knowledge and insight into Procurement category strategies.
• Responsible for Contracts Management and the need for an efficient vendor base across the region. Actively drives suppliers to be more efficient in how they perform for Puma. Ensures the overall procure to pay process, working hand in hand with finance operations, is efficient and automated where appropriate and maintains proper control on privileged information and manages documentation in approved systems and/or physical locations. Keeps accurate timeliness on expiration of agreements and negotiation periods.
• Collaborate with other regional procurement operations manager leads, the global process and system manager and the procurement leadership team to define key performance indicators and compliance metrics. This includes maintenance and tracking of transactional productivity metrics (# requisitions, # PO’s, # of Frame Agreements, commodity spend, cumulative benefits, etc.). Establish process to periodically review metrics and KPI data to identify compliance gaps and process improvement opportunities.
• Conducts Industry and market research to identify best opportunities for the business. Creates Innovative environment for services and solutions among business partners and suppliers. Develops business case(s) and cost/benefit analyses for management team to facilitate sound business decision-making on where improvements to procurement operations can be made.
• Participates in the coordination of special projects, or any other related special task as assigned by department manager.
• Brings and develops expertise in automation of procurement activities, handling high volume of transactions in multiple geographies.

REQUIREMENTS

Education

• Bachelor's degree in business administration/ engineering, or related field from an accredited college or university
• Extensive computer skills.
• MRP/ERP experience a plus.

Experience

• 8 years’ experience in Procurement with a successful track record in leading the development and execution of improvements to all procurement processes and especially the procure to pay process
• 5  years leadership responsibilities with direct supervision of  procurement resources.
• Strong technical base ideally in the Oil & Gas industry in mid-stream and/or in multi-site retailing in mutlitple geogrpahies
• Proficiency in Sourcing Process and procedures.
• Proficiency in developing supplier’s ways of working and contract management (solid background on contract terms and conditions).
• Demonstrated ability working cross-functionally and independently in a matrix organization.
• Experience in developing mutual relationships with key suppliers / internal stakeholders, and customers.
• Demonstrated ability of managing people / teams in a complex, changing environment to deliver value-added results to the organization.
• Experience managing culturally-diverse, functional, virtual organizations, international / global teams. 
• Using Project management disciplines to structure and deliver outstanding results

Skills

• Broad knowledge in sourcing strategies and related processes
• Broad knowledge in Procurement processes, including Procure to pay, Category Management and Supplier Relationship Management and related processes
• Strategic thinking to drive solutions
• Effective negotiation skills
• People leadership skills
• Ability to work with relevant functions across the organization including upper levels of management.
• Ability to work and collaborate on a global level with international teams, recognizing cultural distinctions
• Ability to analyze complex business models and projects for change
• Ability to lead, manage, and deliver multiple concurrent projects, influence others
• Strong interpersonal and talented effective communicator skills, written and verbal
• Self-Starter with the ability to work independently
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills
• Ability to deal with ambiguity
• Strong Time Management Skills
• Results oriented and driven to solve problems
• Fully bilingual (English/Spanish) with excellent oral and written skills
• Continuous improvement thinking oriented
• Computer Skills (MS Office)

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Main Purpose:

The category manager has responsibility for the sourcing, procurement and commercial performance of suppliers of the category generating added value and cost savings regionally.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Understanding Business Requirements

• Develop great working relationships with internal stakeholders across category portfolio
• Ensure all business requirements are considered in line with set company policies and procedures as well relevant legislation
• Take a short, medium and long term view on business requirements

Spend Analysis

• Utilizes spend data to determine opportunities and priorities across all business units, categories and sub-categories
• Provides rigorous analysis of spend data and ensures that spend is effectively tracked and managed on a regular basis

Market Analysis

• Supplier and category segmentation
• Evaluate market summary data to make effective sourcing decisions
• Develop and implement a strategy to manage and mitigate the supply chain risk associated with suppliers in the category
• Lead and contribute towards the development of TCO models for key categories jointly with the Cross Functional Sourcing Team (CFST) and project managers were relevant.
• Conduct supplier risk assessment

Planning

• Develop sourcing or category strategies to support business requirements
• Identifies risks to supply and mitigates them where necessary
• Establishes robust prioritization of workload based on where most value can be added, balancing short term stakeholder requirements with medium to long term value adding actions

Category Management

• Lead the business through the 7-step process
• Deploying strategic analytical tools to identify insights
• Present options to the suppliers
• Works cross functionally and involves support functions relevant throughout the process
• Formulate negotiation strategy and lead process
• Prepare bid adjudication analysis and recommendation for approval as per Delegation of Authority
• End to end management and reporting on the performance of the category

Contract Management

• Negotiate and manage high value, critical and strategic commodity and service contracts - including amendments, price adjustments, verifying price increases and general contract administration.
• Integrate Business Unit contracts into framework agreements.

Ensuring the effectiveness of the Contracts by:

• Communicating negotiated contracts to affected stakeholders.
• Benchmarking both pricing and commodity performance of strategic commodities against industry peers
• Increasing company-wide contract expenditure
• Reviewing supplier performance and contractual compliance regularly

Supplier Relationships 

• Managing strategic supplier relationships
• Represents Puma in relationships with suppliers
• Has the skills and experience to develop suppliers

REQUIREMENTS

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree ideally with a further qualification in Procurement / Supply chain / Business
• Extensive industry experience
• Demonstrate working successfully across countries
• Able to demonstrate agility and efficiency in execution

Skills and Competencies

• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Quality management – ability to set standards, processes, services and systems.
• Relationship building skills.
• The ability to act autonomously and deliver in different circumstances, clients, industries is critical.
• Propensity to learn new commodities and industries is critical.
• Attention to detail and analytical ability is required.
• Sound commercial knowledge.
• Business acumen.
• Good communication and negotiation skills.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Power Point and Excel.
• Confident and proactive self-starter – go getter!
• Customer-focused and service-oriented.

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Main Purpose:

• Ensure all exceptions to the normal scheduling process flow are dealt with on time to avoid process blockage.
• Support the schedulers in executing the daily trip planning.
• Guarantee efficiency in operations and HSSE while ensuring the best satisfaction of internal suppliers and customers with cost effectiveness
• Liaise with transporters and other internal and external stakeholders to ensure operational excellence.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Contracts Management

• Monitor transporters’ performances, including OTIF deliveries and report to management.
• Maintain and update the fleet list in the relevant systems.
• Maintain and update rates in Wind MS
• Review transport invoices and load reports on a daily basis by verifying pricing accuracy prior to being submitted to Transport Manager for approval.
• Actively participate in transporter contract reviews

Exceptions Management

• Ensure list of Safe to Load Passes by transporter by load point is kept up to date.
• Effective and proactively address challenges to ensure smoothness of the operations.
• Update and maintain guidelines with operational requirements per loading and offloading point.
• Update and communicate to all stakeholders, the minimum requirements for on-boarding of new customers.
• Review open orders in the system to ensure all are closed
• Ensure PODs are received and processed as per agreed timelines

Operational Excellence

• Ensure inter-department SLAs are adhered to and kept up to date.
• Maintain internal department KPIs up to date
• Keep track and record services performances to internal customers on monthly basis: actual Vs plan
• Monitor transporters’ operational performances to ensure full customers’ satisfactions:
• On-Time-In-Full deliveries
• Resources turnaround time optimization
• Load report accuracy and consistency

Role Key Success Factors

• Results oriented individual with the ability to effectively manage multiple priorities and timelines.
• Commitment to working in a team environment, with established team building abilities.
• Flexible, pragmatic and out of the box thinker
• Capable of analysing problems, making decisions within delegation of authority and solving timely
• Proactive planning and prioritisation
• Approaching people and good communication skills
• High ethical and integrity mindset

REQUIREMENTS

• Degree at a university or other higher learning institution (NQF level 7). Qualification in areas such as, logistics or supply chain management will be an advantage.
• 2-5 years’ proven experience in transport, logistics, operations planning with sound achievements. Experience specifically in transport of fuels by road will be an advantage.
• Ability to effectively manage interfaces and relationships (transporters, drivers, terminals/depots, internal and external customers) to guarantee efficiency in daily operations of Puma Energy South Africa
• Excellent ability to predict process constrains and tackle them using existing systems coupled with out of the box thinking.
• Familiarity with the geography as well as road freight requirements of South Africa.
• Proven record of being able to self-manage and self-motivate.
• Knowledge of general business software and aptitude to learn new applications; proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Fluent in English

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Main Purpose:

Responsible for establishing significant relationships with local industry stakeholders to convert business opportunities in sales. Sense of urgency to deliver volume, margin, cost, EBITDA targets per quarter and return of investments, coaching and motivating sales team to exceed targets, under a leading by doing approach. Responsible for developing local market expertise and profound knowledge of customer segment needs to build value propositions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Led customer acquisition process and led generation with sales team through an opportunity pipeline management approach (e.g. SPANCOP = Suspect, Prospect, Approach, Negotiate, Contract, Order, and Payment) and CRM (Customer Relationship Management), which drive very much customer satisfaction, and company profitability.
• Drive and coach the Sales Team to deliver volume, margin, cost, EBITDA targets of Bulk Fuels and lubricants in line with local & Global B2B Plans.
• Monitor the performance of key customer accounts, contracts, assets, account receivables, debits and price / discount execution through sales team and internal interfaces with supply & logistic teams, finance, marketing, legal, CSC.
• Build effective relationships with local market stakeholders (government, industry and key accounts) to develop business opportunities.
• Monitor B2B and Lubes market segments trends, competitor movements and prepare sales forecasting per business segment for bulk fuels and lubes with support of Business Planning team.

REQUIREMENTS

Experience:  

• Undergraduate University degree in Finance, Economics, International Business or other related field that would provide a strong background is required.
• Master's Post Graduate degree is preferred. 7-10 years or more experience in related field including global experience in a leadership role including experience in development/planning/strategy at the corporate level.

Skills:   

• High level of proficiency in use of existing software packages (PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Word, etc).
• Ability to effectively interface with management at all levels and as well as contacts outside the organization.
• Bilingual: English and +.

Competencies:  

• Excellent analytical, decision making, organizational, creative problem solving, verbal and written skills.
• Confident, organized, self-starting personality with the ability to understand and clearly communicate a wide range of business development and marketing initiatives.
• Ability to maintain an objective, rational perspective while providing a logical, pragmatic and factual approach to problem solving.
• Management skills with the ability to multi-task and balance short-term deadlines against long-term goals.
• Ability to work with multiple people in a persistent, tactful, and enthusiastic manner.