Mpesa Africa: Sourcing Category Manager

2 weeks ago

Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa Vodafone Full time

Role Purpose/Business Unit:

  • M-Pesa is a pioneering fintech business and global market leader in mobile money. Starting from 2007 as a convenient means by which the unbanked and underbanked could make digital payments, M-Pesa has now grown to offer over 60 million active customers Financial Services, Enterprise, Merchant and Retail solutions. We are proud of our work in enabling the digital economy in our markets, and in driving financial inclusion.
  • M-Pesa Africa is the largest FinTech providing services to more than 60 million customers and 5 million businesses solutions across Financial Services, Enterprise, Merchant and Retail. We are now well on our way to becoming the preferred digital payment method across the markets that we serve, for both instore, remote and online payments. With headquarters in both Nairobi and Johannesburg, we serve markets that include Kenya, Tanzania, DRC, Lesotho, Ghana, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Mozambique.
  • We are a united, energetic and passionate team. A place where leaders coach, teams connect, and everyone is empowered to go further, faster. A place where heroes become superheroes; through growth, opportunity, and the chance to work with the best minds in FinTech.
  • The Sourcing Category manager role is to provide leadership in strategic global sourcing to deliver the fintech roadmap. By working with cross functional teams, you will be influencing, negotiating, building consensus and making key strategic vendor decisions across all layers of the organization. You will be responsible for developing, implementing and managing sourcing category strategies and formulate procurement plans to facilitate achievement the M-Pesa roadmap.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Team leadership and stakeholder management across various teams in the organisation.
  • Serve as lead negotiator in tandem with our Business Units, Legal, Policy, and Tax teams to execute supplier contracts.
  • Manage sourcing activities. This includes a definition of user requirements, analysing spending, supply market analysis, contract analysis, and bid to ensure a seamless and timely tendering process.
  • Establish group partnerships to deepen value creation across the markets by building and maintaining effective relationships with suppliers.
  • Accountable for socializing supplier strategy with senior business decisionmakers by aligning the overall M-Pesa value proposition with that of the suppliers to ensure an increase in M-Pesa's share of value.
  • Align business functions priorities with supplier strategy and compliment by building proactive procurement plans that fully consider short
- and long-term goals to facilitate the business functions meet their revenue targets.

  • Lead supplier performance and roadmap reviews along with business functions to shape the supplier plans that are competitive

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Procurement or Engineering, Economics or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of experience in a similar role
  • Experience in working in a telecommunication service provider/Fintech organisation in emerging markets.

Required Knowledge/Skills:

  • Team leadership skills.
  • Experience in negotiating complex agreements within a telecommunication/fintech space.
  • Knowledge of stakeholder's management
  • Creative approach to solving unclear multistakeholder challenges.
  • Ability to manage ambiguity, solve complex problems and scale effectively across a highly distributed organisation.
  • Acute attention to detail with a high level of data integrity and accuracy.
  • Strong oral and written communication with the ability to provide clear and concise information and/or instructions to end users.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with people at all levels of the organization.
Closing date for Applications
:20 May 2024**The base location for this role is,
Midrand, Vodacom Campus
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.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values diversity & inclusion.

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