Recruitment Vacancies at Procter & Gamble

What success looks like

Superior Value Creation:

• Work with the customer to identify efficiency ideas and executes them effectively.
• Create project list that mutually benefits us and the customer
• Demonstrate stewardship across all key action areas – business and fundamentals reporting.
• Develop and implement strategic plans to optimize the supply chain operations, aligning with organizational goals and objectives. This includes forecasting demand, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing solutions to enhance efficiency and reduce costs.

Joint Business Planning

• Alignment of Joint forecasting sessions and review of ordering patterns and Inventory management
• Manage and Understand Trade Terms, Annual refresher for all customers
• Build Distributor Capabilities
• Joint Supply Chain Synchronization Masterplan
• Customer Collaboration on Quarterly Business Planning

Logistics Coordination

• Coordinate transportation, warehousing, and distribution activities to ensure the smooth flow of goods throughout the supply chain. Optimize logistics processes to minimize transportation costs and improve delivery times

Risk Management

• Identify potential risks and disruptions within the supply chain, such as supplier shortages, transportation delays, or natural disasters, and develop contingency plans to mitigate these risks. Ensure business continuity and resilience in the face of supply chain disruptions.

Performance Monitoring and Analysis

• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the performance of the supply chain operations and identify areas for improvement. Analyze data and metrics to identify trends, root causes of issues, and opportunities for optimization

Customer Relationship Management:

• Weekly & monthly drumbeats with Customer Supply Chain representatives to track aligned KPIs.
• Conduct quarterly Top to Top with the customer Supply Chain Leadership
• Understand and lead your accounts to top 3 in advantage monitor survey
• Timely resolution of all customers related pain points in Supply Chain
• Conduct Annual VSMs with the customers to agree on the ideal and future state
• Effective communication with the counter parts on day-to-day Order and Shipment updates

Organization

• Understand skill gap of his team and coach them on identified opportunities.
• Personal Mastery of Basic Sales and Supply Skills Framework.
• Establish understand of customer decision making and work processes via account penetration and influence
• Lead or support Supply Chain special projects.

Responsibilities of the role

• Develop short & long-term strategies and identify business-building chances to create shared value for P&G and customers.
• Manage e2e Supply Chain KPIs for the account.
• Be the voice of the customer to our company & business categories.
• Lead daily & monthly planning to deliver Supply chain goals.
• Develop plans to win on availability with customers, making every store a growth engine for our brands.
• Drive growth in service, improvement in cost to serve, and cash position on inventory.
• Develop productive working relationships with key customer contacts in a positive way.
• Leverage consumer insights and partner with customers to input into the development of a joint business plan.
• Use analytical tools and integrate various data systems to develop action plans

Job Qualifications

Role Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Leader who is passionate to make things happen, collaborating well with diverse groups of people
• Strong analytical thinking and skills
• Have an external focus and a real passion for Supply Chain and Logistics
• Ability to travel regularly to customers
• Like to bring creativity & innovation to your work

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Responsibilities of the role

• Participate as a critical member of a cross-functional team in one of our Organizational Units (like Business or Market) to deliver a new service or technology to market.
• Partnering with multi-functional organizations to improve our efficiency and effectiveness at reaching P&G consumers with super communication.
• Encourage innovation from our external business partners by building a relationship with P&G and describing what P&G is looking for.
• Working with internal customers and with the management of supplier companies to resolve financial or supply or quality issues that affect our business plans.
• Owns definition and execution of sourcing tactics, including stakeholder alignment and external communication
• Leads projects on defined intervention areas (savings, technical, cost structure, relationship, stewardship)
• Analyzing market trends and supplier landscape
• Providing insights and recommendations to senior management and suppliers
• Spotting and exploiting emerging trends and technologies
• Uncovering business-building ideas and cost-saving opportunities
• Designing sourcing strategies that improves the value, availability and technology of the service
• Striking deals through negotiation or leading competitive bidding
• Building effective working relationships with suppliers
• Creating and capitalizing on new approaches such as e-marketplaces

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 5+ years of Purchasing & Financial experience in FMCG environment
• Leader who are passionate to make things happen, collaborating well with diverse groups of people
• Have an external focus and a real passion for Purchasing / Marketing & Finance
• Analytical Skills - Demonstrate ability to visualize, articulate concepts and solve problems, and make or influence decisions that make sense based on available information. Apply logical thinking to capturing and analyzing information, crafting and testing solutions to problems, and formulating plans.
• Ownership and Leadership - Ability to recognize strategic opportunities and be able to enroll others in disruptive thinking to get results. Ability to influence across functional boundaries (Brand Managers, Finance, Legal, Operations, Purchases) to develop and deliver strategy and relationship management action plans to achieve outstanding results.
• Ability to Build and Sustain Relationships - Demonstrate ability to lead high-level interactions with internal business partners, suppliers and agencies, working effectively across functions, geographies and cultures. Must be able to build relationships and influence others via excellent interpersonal skills, despite many remote relationships. You will invest significant time/effort to handle supplier relationship(s), development of supplier relationship management strategies and execution of joint business plans.

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Job Description

• Responsible to source materials/services by building expertise in external industries, sourcing skills, and internal categories/markets.
• Responsible for the coordination and execution of sourcing activities, managing internal and external relationships, and ensuring the business needs are met efficiently.
• Responsibilities include defining and executing sourcing recommendations with basic proficiency in all sourcing skills; accountability for delivery of fundamentals such as supply assurance, value creation, and compliance to policies; determining insights from analytics and recommending strategic interventions; ownership for defining and executing of sourcing tactics, including stakeholder alignment and external communication; leading projects on defined intervention areas (savings, technical, cost structure, relationship, stewardship).
• Participate as a critical member of a cross-functional team in one of our Organizational Units (like Business or Market) to deliver a new service or technology to market.
• Partnering with multi-functional organizations to improve efficiencies and effectiveness at reaching P&G consumers with super communication.
• Encourage innovation from external business partners by building a relationship with P&G and describing what P&G service requirements.
• Working with internal customers and with the management of supplier companies to resolve financial or supply or quality issues that affect business plans.
• Owns definition and execution of sourcing tactics, including stakeholder alignment and external communication
• Leads projects on defined intervention areas (savings, technical, cost structure, relationship, stewardship
• Analyzing market trends and supplier landscape
• Providing insights and recommendations to senior management and suppliers
• Spotting and exploiting emerging trends and technologies
• Uncovering business-building ideas and cost-saving opportunities
• Designing sourcing strategies that improves the value, availability and technology of the service
• Striking deals through negotiation or leading competitive bidding
• Building effective working relationships with suppliers
• Creating and capitalizing on new approaches such as e-marketplaces

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master's Degree and 0-10 years of work experience
• Interest in sourcing skills, particularly negotiation, bidding, commercial agreements, and relationship management to optimally lead top level partnerships
• Critical Thinking & Leadership - Ability to recognize strategic opportunities and be able to enroll others in disruptive thinking to get results
• Analytical Skills - Validated ability to visualize, articulate, and seek problems and concepts, and make decisions that make sense based on available information
• Ability to influence across functional boundaries (R&D, Finance, Legal etc.) to develop and deliver strategy and action plans to achieve desired business results

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Job Description

• Responsible for co-leading the strategic choices and E2E execution across customer teams of the sales fundamentals and the external customer relationships so that the organization delivers positive, balanced and consistent value creation.
• Requires strong stewardship knowledge to provide the proper direction to the organization.
• Requires strong organization skills to manage the career and training of the finance organization and to influence sales organization decisions.

Job Qualifications

• 0 - 5 years experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Banking, Business Administration or any related field, coupled with a passion for numbers and business strategy
• Proven ability to make business recommendations based on financial analysis and understanding of business strategy
• Previously worked with big data sets and the ability to present the data efficiently to support business decisions - would be preferred
• Strong analytical thinking
• Advanced Excel, Power BI or other data analysis and presentation tools
• Collaboration and leadership skills, able to empower and influence
• Excellent command of English

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Specific Tasks:

Quality Data Capturing

• Update and maintain the Quality Release Databases
• Receipt of QA Release Samples from Reception capturing information from sample, delivery note, Temperature Logger into the database
• Collate relevant Batch Documentation and capture information into databases
• Follow up on any missing Batch Documentation
• Developing and maintaining an accurate filing system for Batch Release Information
• Aid with Product Recalls’ (including mock recalls) data collation and reporting
• Operate as content and access administrator for internal website and SharePoint database, within the constraints for legislation
• Track Inbound Planning Report(s) to proactively request Batch Documents
• Track DC Receipt to ensure samples are sent to office as soon as possible

Quality Assurance Batch Release

• Review Certificates of Analysis, Certificates of Conformance and relevant shipping records to perform the Final Batch Release of Finished Products in accordance with SAHPRA requirements to ensure the public received products that are safe, effective and of good quality.
• Ensure that samples received from the manufacturer meet regulatory requirements and that retention samples for each batch manufactured, are retained at the Distribution 3PL for the regulated time frame.
• Query and resolve any non-conformances on CoAs or batch documents with the contract manufacturers to facilitate batch release.
• Document control and archiving in accordance with SAHPRA requirements.
• Analysis and Reporting on Product Release statistics quarterly during Quality Management Review Council Meeting.
• Perform due diligence on at least one Batch Manufacturing and Packaging Record for imported Finished Products per Pharmaceutical SKU on the Company Product List, in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Perform Annual Customer Verification to ensure that customer are aptly licensed to purchase medicines from the Company.
• Preparation of QA Release Samples for safe product disposal

Document Management System

• Assisting with the compilation, review and updating of QMS Documentation, including but not limited to local procedures, policies and supporting documents.
• Developing and maintaining an accurate filing system.
• Keeping filing up to date, and secure.
• Maintaining a neat and well-organised documentation system.
• Photocopying, scanning & binding of documentation

Customer Service

• To provide and ensure a high level of service, to internal and external customers through
• Proper product knowledge
• Supplying correct information timeously
• Good communication with other departments
• Assist the QA Manager(s) with management of the QMS, as required.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor degree Pharmacy (SAPHRA)
• Qualified Pharmacist registered with SAPC
• Junior candidate that completed Community Service (Opportunity to be trained and upskilled)
• 3-8 years QA or experience in manufacturing industry will be advantageous