Category Specialist

2 weeks ago


Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa BLUFF PERSONNEL Full time

Located in Riverhorse Valley, Durban, the Category Specialist's role is to support strategic sourcing activities for current and future requirements with the aim to optimise total cost of ownership and create agile and scalable supply chains.

The commodity and sourcing strategies must align with the business strategies and requirements.

Main Duties include:

  • Ensure that the commercial and governance requirements are adhered to during the sourcing and contracting activities and align with Group Commodity Strategy initiatives
  • Support the development of business cases; cost modelling, identify and report savings opportunities and achievements; solicit and evaluate supplier proposals using benchmarking and cost reviews
  • Manage the business review process with internal stakeholders and suppliers to ensure that market trends, supplier performance, supply risks and future business needs are aligned
  • Ensure effective relationship/stakeholder management towards business/markets.
  • Actively support the supply market and process knowledge and expertise in the area of continuous improvement and sourcing intelligence development
  • Lead the supplier development and selection strategy for assigned commodities in line with BBBEE and localisation requirements
  • Effectively engage Technical; Engineering; Project Services and Operations Teams to execute and fulfil on project sourcing requirements for assigned commodities while optimising cost, quality and cycle times through TCO leverage

Criteria:

  • Procurement/Logistics/Supply Chain Management (NQF6), Diploma or Degree
  • Member of Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply advantageous
  • 5+ years experience in Strategic Sourcing and/or Category Management
in a leading Global or SA company

  • Exposure to CSR and Responsible Sourcing requirements
  • Have a collaborative, selfstarter work ethic
  • Data analytics advantageous
  • Computer literate (MS Office, Google Suite)
  • Competence with ERP software, especially Oracle/JD Edwards or SAP

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Salary:
R35, R45,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

  • Competence with ERP software, especially Oracle/JD Edwards or SAP

Education:

  • Diploma (required)

Experience:

  • Procurement/Logistics/Supply Chain Management (NQF6): 5 years (preferred)

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