Procurement Commodity Manager: Raw Materials

2 weeks ago


Roodepoort, South Africa Clover Recruitment Full time

**Job Advert Summary**:
Clover is looking for a Procurement Commodity Manager: Raw Materials to reach savings targets; execute sourcing strategy; manage the contract life cycle and support the Buyer in carrying out their duties. This position is based at Clover Head Office in Roodepoort.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- National Diploma
- Experience in working with senior management
- People management experience
- Business English: Fluent
- Computer literacy (Advanced)
- Code 08 Driver's license
- Travel off-site/overnight stay

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Assist in commodity strategy formulation and responsible for execution of the strategy**
- Drive the tender initiation process: liaise with business departments to identify the requirement, compile tender documentation, issue and receive tenders; facilitate the tender adjudication process: review, validate and evaluate offers, present tender findings to the bid evaluation committee and finalise the tender adjudication process; administer the process of awarding tenders.
- Assist in collecting and evaluating commodity key economic indicators in order to formulate a realistic annual Raw Material or Packaging Budget and better than annual performs
- Develop, evaluate, prioritise and implement cost saving initiatives; implement action plans to ensure the annual productivity target is reached
- Analyse and verify proposed supplier increases by conducting market research and data analysis, price negotiations, obtaining approval from Category Procurement Manager, updating price formulas and standard costs
- Manage and minimise Purchase Price variances.
- Verify supplier rebates, invoicing suppliers for rebates, ensure payments are received timeously, update the rebate register and productivity tracker; update mould register to ensure costs amortised in packaging prices are removed; timeously; Commodity/ Polymer Tracker updated timeously
- Consolidate and report on delivery against savings targets; monitor and report on overall performance; track progress against savings plan, delivery of benefits targets and action plans; report on achievements of strategic and tactical targets on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis
- Ensure that commodity strategies adequately respond to directives, mandates and initiatives.
- Conduct spend analysis to identify optimisation levers for strategic commodities.Contribute to continuous improvement in the sourcing of commodities

**Improve service levels to internal customers - Marketing, Product Innovation & Technology, Production, Planning & Distribution**
- Represent Procurement in Project - New Product Development checklist maintained for all projects
- Projects updated in Microsoft One Note
- Obtain quotes, negotiate prices and updating price
- Confirm standard costs to Master files administrator timeously and assist with new vendor
- Manage packaging phase outs and write offs with Buyer
- Provide accurate and timeous feedback and follow-up with regard to deviations communicated in the Daily Order fill rate: Monthly Deviation Report: Production; ad-hoc SMS notifications: Production; Notify relevant departments in a timely manner if a critical delivery is going to be late
- Ensure compliance to relevant legislation and policies

**Manage Supplier performance**
- Draft Service Levels Agreements
- Assist in negotiating Service Level and Master Supply Agreements conditions with Suppliers;
- Manage contracts pertaining to his/her portfolio of commodities including the renewal or termination processes
- Ensure Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators are enforced
- Manage Suppliers based on the Supplier management dash board:

- Master Supply Agreements and Service Level Agreements with key suppliers
- Performance measurement of key suppliers (Quarterly Supplier Evaluations)
- Risk strategy for key suppliers
- Growth rebate with key suppliers
- Price formulas with key suppliers
- Annual factory audits and visits to key suppliers

**Communicate and maintain professional relationships**
- Share relevant information accurately and timeously with the relevant parties and escalate mistakes/problems to Category Procurement Manager immediately
- Actively contribute to team objectives and team spirit; partner across departments
- Constantly seek new ways of improving work processes and productivity, focus on improving own productivity
- Demonstrate and develop technical/professional expertise in the raw material category



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