Regional Category Manager

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Puma Energy Full time

Main Purpose:
The category manager has responsibility for the sourcing, procurement and commercial performance of suppliers of the category generating added value and cost savings regionally.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Understanding Business Requirements
- Develop great working relationships with internal stakeholders across category portfolio.
- Ensure all business requirements are considered in line with set company policies and procedures as well relevant legislation.
- Take a short, medium and long term view on business requirements.

Spend Analysis
- Utilizes spend data to determine opportunities and priorities across all business units, categories and sub-categories
- Provides rigorous analysis of spend data and ensures that spend is effectively tracked and managed on a regular basis

Market Analysis
- Supplier and category segmentation
- Evaluate market summary data to make effective sourcing decisions
- Develop and implement a strategy to manage and mitigate the supply chain risk associated with suppliers in the category
- Lead and contribute towards the development of TCO models for key categories jointly with the Cross Functional Sourcing Team (CFST) and project managers were relevant.
- Conduct supplier risk assessment

Planning
- Develop sourcing or category strategies to support business requirements
- Identifies risks to supply and mitigates them where necessary
- Establishes robust prioritization of workload based on where most value can be added, balancing short term stakeholder requirements with medium to long term value adding actions.

Category Management
- Lead the business through the 7-step process.
- Deploying strategic analytical tools to identify insights.
- Present options to the suppliers
- Works cross functionally and involves support functions relevant throughout the process.
- Formulate negotiation strategy and lead process.
- Prepare bid adjudication analysis and recommendation for approval as per Delegation of Authority
- End to end management and reporting on the performance of the category

Contract Management
- Negotiate and manage high value, critical and strategic commodity and service contracts - including amendments, price adjustments, verifying price increases and general contract administration
- Integrate Business Unit contracts into framework agreements
- Ensuring the effectiveness of the Contracts by:

- Communicating negotiated contracts to affected stakeholders
- Benchmarking both pricing and commodity performance of strategic commodities against industry peers
- Increasing company-wide contract expenditure
- Reviewing supplier performance and contractual compliance regularly

Supplier Relationships
- Managing strategic supplier relationships
- Represents Puma in relationships with suppliers.
- Has the skills and experience to develop suppliers

**REQUIREMENTS**:
Experience
- Bachelor’s degree ideally with a further qualification in Procurement / Supply chain / Business
- Extensive industry experience
- Demonstrate working successfully across countries.
- Able to demonstrate agility and efficiency in execution.

Skills and Competencies
- Strong leadership and management skills.
- Quality management - ability to set standards, processes, services and systems.
- Relationship building skills.
- The ability to act autonomously and deliver in different circumstances, clients, industries is critical.
- Propensity to learn new commodities and industries is critical.
- Attention to detail and analytical ability is required.
- Sound commercial knowledge.
- Business acumen.
- Good communication and negotiation skills.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Power Point and Excel.
- Confident and proactive self-starter - go getter

Customer-focused and service-oriented.

Key Relationships and Department Overview:
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
- Internal - Regional and country management teams / regional and global functional leaders / regional and country procurement teams/ Global teams
- External - Suppliers, trade bodies

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