Procurement Manager

2 weeks ago

Sandton, South Africa Discovery Ltd. Full time

Business Unit:
Discovery Central Services
Function:Procurement
Date:20-Jan-2023
Senior Procurement Manager

About Discovery

  • Discovery's core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fastpaced and dynamic environment enables smart, selfdriven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About (Group Procurement)

  • Discovery conducts a centreled Procurement department which has three strategic objectives, namely optimising cost efficiency, supplier partnering to create shared value and transformation through preferential procurement. These are underpinned by the principles of proper governance and good corporate citizenship.

Key Purpose

Key Performance Areas (KPA's)

STRATEGIC

  • Assume a lead role in developing and implementing commodity sourcing strategies based on existing and forecased spend
  • Optimise sourcing per category spend analysis and optimisation with a total cost of ownership approach
  • Lead and/or participate on crossfunctional teams to ensure that Discovery is leveraging spend and driving best value
  • Support internal customers for the sourcing of goods and services. This is accomplished by following established and approved procurement policies and procedures in order to provide the lowest cost consistent with quality and service requirements while maintaining good supplier relations.
  • Optimise procurement savings
  • Support the administration of all contract price escalation (annual/quarterly) indices, spend rebates
  • Maintain effective working relationships with external customers and /or suppliers with a view to assess or improve the quality of the procurement and purchasing.
  • Provide technical specialist advice in the negotiating of service level agreements and pricing
  • Eliminate poor data quality and loss in cost savings opportunities
  • Increase contract coverage and process efficiency
  • Manage supplier performance by conducting Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) with strategic vendors and implementing remedial action to improve poor performance areas.
  • Managing the CRES, IT and marketing commodity specialists as direct reports
  • Prepare monthly reports for exco and recommend areas of improvement for the procurement division.

OPERATIONAL

  • Interface with line planning managers to plan and prioritise purchasing activities
  • Interact and communicate with internal stakeholder to ensure that operational SLAs are met
  • Interact and communicate with suppliers on a daily basis to resolve transactional issues and gather critical information (invoices, tracking info, tax docs etc.)
  • Request competitive quotes and proposals
  • Conduct contract pricing validation for all purchase requests under category management responsibility
  • Review planned orders, create requisitions for purchased items
  • Manage approval processes including the weekly IT forum approval process
  • Review, update, and maintain purchase orders until they are closed (receipting)
  • Resolving invoice price terms discrepancies to enable order processing
  • Make decisions using sound judgment while complying with policies, procedures, appropriate principles and applicable laws and regulations.

REPORTING

  • Track SLA targets
  • Track Open orders
  • Track overall spending
  • Track cost savings targets
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Qualifications & Competencies

Qualifications & Experience

  • A Bachelor's degree in supply chain/commerce/engineering/industrial psychology
  • Minimum 3 Years' experience in Procurement
  • Experience in category management, preferably in IT
  • Sage Experience (2 Years' experience) will be an added advantage

Skills And Competencies
- able to operate independently and under pressure,
- able to perform multiple concurrent tasks and responsibilities and to deal with changing priorities while maintaining personal effectiveness
- strong negotiation skills
- understand contract terms and risk mitigation
- able to communicate (orally and in writing) and be responsive to internal customer requirements
- be decisive and driven by deadlines, bias for action
- be willing to challenge ideas and provide suggestions which are in the best interests of the company
- able to work collaboratively with internal customers and other procurement professionals
- exhibit sound interpersonal skills involving interfacing, coordinating and negotiating with internal customers and suppliers

  • EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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