Senior Procurement Manager

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa British Council Full time
Senior Procurement Manager

Date:28 May 2024

Location:
Cape Town, Sub Saharan Africa, ZA

Company:
British Council

We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide.

We work directly with individuals to help them gain the skills, confidence and connections to transform their lives and shape a better world in partnership with the UK.

We support them to build networks and explore creative ideas, to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications.

Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In we reached 650 million people.

Contract Type - Indefinite

Location - South Africa - 8 Riebeeck Street

Closing date - Tuesday 11th June 2024 at 23:59 UK time

There is no relocation or sponsorship support.

About the role:


The Senior Procurement Manager is part of the Global Procurement team, The Global Procurement function is split into clusters and this role will report to a Procurement Director delivering procurement requirements within that cluster.

The Senior Procurement Manager will support the Global Procurement strategy and is responsible for supporting cluster initiatives.


This role will lead and promote cross-country procurement activities and ensure larger scale collaboration opportunities are considered or undertaken where appropriate.

Working with the Global Category Managers, they will deliver the global and cluster approach at country/ cluster level.

Main Responsibilities

Strategy and Planning- Supports the Cluster Head of procurement in developing the Strategic Sourcing plan for the cluster. Plans procurement activity according to spend profile and benefit realisation with the involvement of the Category management team. Leads on the delivery of projects contributing to the Strategic Sourcing plan for the cluster. Plans the annual benefit target according to project with an updated benefit pipeline. Ensures the cluster pipeline activity is kept up-to-date and update team and Procurement Director regularly on pipeline activity progression. Supports the roll-out of the departmental learning and development strategy, to ensure on-going improvement in procurement capability. Thinks and acts strategically - balancing the strategic with the operational and helping to shape the long term commercial agendaConsultancy, analysis & problem-solving- Consults closely with internal customers and other stakeholder to understand current and future business needs (likely to be on a quarterly time horizon), and plans work activities accordingly to ensure the services and advice they provide meets those demands Builds an in-depth understanding of the procurement opportunities and challenges facing internal customer(s), and of how those relate to wider issues across the broader organisation, to ensure the development of procurement governance and practices based on informed business insight and joined-up thinkingDevises non-standard or bespoke analytical approaches to understand complex problems and enable informed business-planning, decision-making and/or the development of new or improved policies and practice Deploys a range of specialist or bespoke approaches for procurement initiatives to support the provision of high-quality services and advice. Distils complex concepts and analysis into cogent and persuasive business case presentations, which convincingly influence decision-makers about the need for significant changes to policy or practiceService improvement- Identifies and makes recommendations to Deputy CPO for improvements to ways of working that enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the corporate procurement, as well as the operational effectiveness of their internal customers. Makes technical/professional recommendations which have a measurable impact on local business performance (e.g., in terms of efficiency, quality, reliability, mitigation of risk, productivity, profitability or customer satisfaction) Actively champions and monitors staff compliance with the agreed corporate policies and practices relevant to their area of functional expertise; investigating reasons for non-compliance. Seeks to improve business process for the customers benefit, contributing ideas to support the development of discipline-wide and customer-specific business plans and priorities.
Functional expertise- Provides expert professional advice, support and challenge to internal customers and other stakeholders to support the development of high quality, effective and continuously improving business practices within procurement. Provides specialist, functional expertise advice or ideas into the development and implementation of corporate or regional change projects. Pro-actively pursues an annual cycle of formally recognised Continuing Professional Development to maint

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