Head of Procurement, Ssa

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Mondelēz International Full time

**Job Description**:
**Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?**

**Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.**

In this role, you own the procurement agenda in your business unit and are the single point of contact for the business unit’s leadership team, which works to understand the business’ needs and translates them into effective procurement plans. Your deliverables include productivity, quality, service, cash and procurement process effectiveness, and supplier-enabled consumer solutions across innovation, sustainability and well-being. You may lead a team of procurement specialists and you will serve as a community leader for all procurement team members in your area of responsibility. In addition, you are also a member of the regional procurement leadership team.

**How you will contribute**

You will work closely with business-unit executives to understand business needs and translate them into procurement plans that are executed at the business-unit level. In addition, you will communicate business unit expectations to procurement teams and ensure strategies reflect these expectations. You will be the single point of procurement contact for executives in the business unit; align business-unit resources to deliver procurement’s commitments [e.g., productivity, service, inflation mitigation, commodity price/risk management, cash, innovation, source-to-pay (STP) compliance BCP, and quality]; manage procurement specialists to implement the procurement agenda and STP process and engage local procurement team members, regardless of reporting line, by acting as a community leader, and supporting local procurement hiring/on-boarding, and; recruit, retain, and develop a team of direct and indirect reports.

**What you will bring**

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:

- Procurement, working cross country and cross functionally
- Understanding how procurement brings financial value to the organization’s overall profit and loss
- Leading and developing teams in a multi-cultural environment
- Organizational agility, motivating others, influencing stakeholders and interacting effectively with business unit leadership based on a deep understanding of business priorities

**More about this role**

**What you need to know about this position**:
Drives the procurement agenda for the SSA Business Unit (BU), acting as the single point of contact for the BU LT for the Global Procurement function. The position assists with the execution of short-term and long-term strategies that align with the company goals for reducing costs and achieve company financial goals.

As a member of the regional procurement leadership team and BU MSC extended leadership team, the position directly leads a team of Procurement Managers and Specialists to support the BU and also leads the larger BU based global procurement colleagues, owning the overall engagement and career agenda.

**What extra ingredients you will bring**:

- Takes responsibility and is accountable.
- Highly analytical
- Has passion, courage and leads by example.
- Flexible mind-set and a willingness to make suggestions and improvements.
- Highly ethical and works within governance.
- Ability to coordinate, prioritises and plan effectively with strong execution abilities.
- Effective communicator and leader.
- Ability to multi-task effectively.
- Able to build relationship with key stakeholders
- Ability to influence
- Ability to build strong high level strategic presentations

**Education / Certifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree / diploma in Supply Chain Management, Engineering or Logistics or Procurement or Commerce.
- Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) or similar qualification or studying towards CIPS qualification would be beneficial.
- More than 10-12 years experience in a procurement/supply chain role, with the last 5 years at least in a procurement managerial capacity, leading a Procurement Team.

**Job specific requirements**:

- Develop competitive advantage for our business, with the objective of thought leadership with suppliers and leading performance on business fundamentals and KPIs. Understanding and scanning the market constantly for opportunities to unlock value across all the categories.
- Support the Regional Spend Area Teams in defining the strategy for the strategic categories through category management processes such as local spend and market analysis.
- Responsible for unlocking value and reducing costs through the sourcing strategies driven by market intelligence, spend analysis, tenders, RFQs, negotiations and achieving budget in the local BU SSA markets.
- Develop and deliver local BU strategy plans through a comprehensive understanding of supplier offerings and their relative capabilities within the BU to support localisation of suppliers where applicable.
- Develop and partner with key strategic suppliers, who are highly

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