Group Procurement Strategic Sourcing Manager

4 months ago


Port Elizabeth, South Africa Aspen Pharma Group Full time

**Overview**

Strategize, drive and integrate strategic procurement at site to support multi-category spend with focus on procurement spend analytics, procurement savings, supply risk mitigation, supplier performance evaluation, tendering, benchmark evaluation, etc., and develop sustainable, robust and cost-efficient procurement processes whilst implementing cost savings initiatives contributing to an effective supply chain.

**Responsibilities**

**Procurement Strategy, Spend Analytics and Integration**
- Develop and implement strategies for procurement to ensure cost-effectiveness and mitigate supply risks aligned to overall business objective.
- Bringing in external data for internal and external benchmarking, in combination with the analytics to support savings opportunities for the site operations.
- Provide the site with dashboards for prescriptive, advanced, predictive analytics and data mining as well as ad-hoc analytics for procurement
- Be the first point of contact for procurement stakeholders for all their analytics requirements
- Accountable for developing and driving the sourcing strategies to support multi-category procurement spend.
- Support the team to prepare and solicit competitive bids, quotations and proposals, evaluate and advise on competitive offerings to determine the overall best offer for a product or service while overseeing relationships with external partners.

**Supply Risk Mitigation**
- Support the site team to develop and implement strategies for procurement to ensure cost-effectiveness and mitigate supply risks aligned to overall business objective.
- Bringing in external data for internal and external benchmarking, in combination with the analytics to support savings opportunities for the site operations.
- Provide the site with dashboards for prescriptive, advanced, predictive analytics and data mining as well as ad-hoc analytics for procurement
- Be the first point of contact for procurement stakeholders for all their analytics requirements
- Accountable for developing and driving the sourcing strategies to support multi-category procurement spend.
- Support the team to prepare and solicit competitive bids, quotations and proposals, evaluate and advise on competitive offerings to determine the overall best offer for a product or service while overseeing relationships with external partners.

**Procurement Management**
- Facilitate, track and support procurement strategies aimed at optimizing cost and material availability/ supplier reliability.
- Build & nurture strategic relations with key suppliers to ensure preferential treatment to Aspen in terms of technical assistance, pricing & delivery of materials.
- Identify, evaluate and select suppliers for the new projects and support the group operations team in product costing, benchmarking, and cost optimization.
- Support the site procurement team in all the procurement initiatives including budgetary matters, spend analytics, procurement savings, supply risk mitigation, supplier performance evaluation, tendering, benchmark evaluation, etc.

**Procurement Savings**
- Support and ensure to achieve the target procurement savings for the site by close coordination with relevant stakeholders.
- Identifying opportunities with top spent items across all categories to reduce the materials cost of goods.
- Manage suppliers to support site procurement teams to ensure that supplier deliverables and costing are aligned with group operations expectations.
- Achieving stringent cost reduction targets & implement and continuous improvement initiatives for sustainability.
- Manage the de-risking & business continuity plans.
- Guide category leads in implementing procurement & negotiation strategies based on nature of product, criticality, spend & market dynamics
- Implement, track, and deliver the new supplier qualification projects by coordinating with site teams for timely implementation.

**Skills Required**:
**Background/experience**
- Bachelor’s Degree / Diploma ideally related to procurement
- Ideally 10 years’ experience in procurement
- 3 years’ of pharmaceutical, FMCG or chemical industry experience with knowledge of cross functional activities

**Specific job skills**
- Strategic Sourcing & Procurement
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Cost Savings / Contract Negotiation
- Spend Analysis/ Inventory Management
- Procurement Business Analytics
- Supply chain integration
- Pharmaceutical Project Management
- Risk assessment and mitigation
- Cross functional integration
- Internal and external customer management
- Extensive procurement knowledge with insight into pharmaceutical related manufacturing industries.
- Working knowledge of commercial contracting & pharmaceutical standards/ compliance
- Good knowledge of GxP
- Pharmaceutical Project Management
- Product lifecycle management in Pharmaceuticals (API and Finished Product)
- Change Management

**Competencies**
- Create the future
- Make good decisions
- Lead and


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