Senior Manager Of Procurement

6 days ago

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Leap29 Full time

Senior Manager of Procurement

Our client is a global renewable independent power producer and service provider. We build and operate clean energy projects that provide energy for the grid.

This position will have the opportunity to get in on the ground floor as the company enters an explosive growth period in the US market to establish, lead, and support the development of strategy for and the procurement of the key components that make up our client's energy projects and products in the US, including energy storage, solar modules, solar inverters, tracking systems, transformers, breakers, and other key technologies.

Responsibilities
  1. Category Management and Contracting: Capture business demands and handle competitive tendering, review and levelize vendor proposals, negotiation and contract execution for key goods and services as needed, ensuring that agreements are executed within the required timeframe. Make recommendations as to which supplier/contractor/technology should be deployed including leading contract negotiations and interfaces with a cross-functional team. Establish, own and refine the procurement guidance to the business including methodology, tools, and processes. Support the demands from capital projects including drafting and providing price forecasts, assumption rationales, and project procurement plans while representing procurement in internal and external meetings.
  2. Risk Management: Identify and ensure effective risk mitigation through collaboration with HSE, legal, credit, insurance, and other key stakeholders.
  3. Business Line Support: Lead and support enhanced stakeholder integration combined with development of an understanding of supply market and cost trends to drive the transformation of category sourcing capabilities and value creation. Influence the organization's leaders to drive successful sourcing events, inclusive of combining multiple project needs into a single enterprise sourcing event and standardize across suppliers and services.
  4. Supplier Management: Build and maintain multiple supplier relationships by conducting regular assessments of suppliers including business review meetings, analysis of supplier's competitive advantages, understanding of supplier pricing roadmaps, leading the cross-functional qualification process, and performing factory audits.
  5. New Supplier Integration: Identify and onboard new potential suppliers into the organization's existing processes.
  6. Special Projects and Other Duties: Perform other duties as assigned, including but not limited to regular and ad-hoc reporting.
  7. Supervision of Others: None.
Qualifications
  1. Education / Experience: At least 5 years of procurement or relevant professional experience with a minimum of 3 years of experience required in the renewable energy industry. Direct experience with energy storage systems and technology is preferred. At least 2 years of contracting and negotiation experience. Bachelor's degree with preference for Engineering, Supply Chain, Construction Management, or Business Management. Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.
  2. Preferred certifications are a plus: Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM), Certified member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (MCIPS), Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM) from the Institute of Supply Chain Management (ISM), Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute.
  3. Skills / Knowledge / Abilities: Superior knowledge in procurement strategies, processes, and best practices including extensive experience with contract development and management, supplier management, and claims management. Strong written and verbal communication skills, executive presence, interpersonal and presentation skills and the proven ability to influence and communicate effectively. Establish relationships, influence, and negotiate competing priorities among business partners, suppliers, markets, and trends within the renewable energy industry. Apply efficient procurement processes, structures and analytical tools while having an eye to make changes to process and procedures based on knowledge of current business needs. Be a team player and develop a working understanding of key commercial and technical drivers of business success using this knowledge to make recommendations to the business to drive operational changes. Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, and SAP, with the ability to learn new systems and tools rapidly.

If this opportunity sounds of interest, please reach out to Simon Howard.

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