Category Analyst: Ict and Logistics Global Grade 10

3 months ago


Isando, South Africa Barloworld Equipment Full time

**Core purpose of the role**

The main purpose of this role is to support business and the strategic sourcing function in allocated Category by proactively seeking and implementing opportunities for value added procurement through modelling and analytical capabilities. The incumbent is responsible for facilitating improvements, streamlining processes, monitoring and benchmarking and remaining up to date with industry trends and relevant economic and business factors. The incumbent is also accountable for reporting and analysis to support savings initiatives, cost control and B-BBEE scorecard results. The incumbent is responsible for gathering of spend data from systems, cleaning/ classifying data, analysing data to develop key spend analysis outcome insights for the development of the sourcing strategy.

**Key deliverables and outputs**

**Sourcing Analysis and Value Delivery**
- Facilitate improvement in category strategic sourcing, monitor industry trends and be aware of relevant economic and business factors which include benchmarking
- Proactively analyse data and detect areas with improvement potential.
- Drive the accurate calculation of net savings, savings baselines and benefits for all initiatives and projects executed in the allocated Category
- Prepare frequent updates and status reports with highlights.
- Update & enhance modelling and analysis tools & methodology
- Analyse current spend for category and Business Unit
- Advise and guide the business units in terms of their strategic sourcing spend and targets
- Generate reports and track actual procurement results against plan
- Prepare presentations regarding insights developed from data analysis to the management team.
- Support the budgeting and forecasting process in interaction with other functions and manage the safe storage of data received and provided.
- Develop price trend for the Category and establish category price index.
- Engage in issue resolution and clarification.

Category Sourcing Reporting
- Coordinate and implement the Category reporting cycle (e.g. scorecards, spend, savings, initiative tracking, market intelligence reports, Supplier relationship management, supplier performance, and Sustainable procurement) in coordination with business and the strategic sourcing team, ensuring a transparent process is in place.
- Produce reports on different Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis.

Coordinate and drive the sequence of activities maximising accuracy and compliance
- Drive improved performance through the deployment and reporting of meaningful performance indicators, ensuring alignment with strategic sourcing strategy and business objectives and measures.
- Support the category management team with necessary data preparation out of ERP systems
- Assess impact of changes in the reporting content and structure, coordinate the implementation of changes and manage stakeholders.
- Perform quality checks on data received in order to ensure accuracy
- Perform quality checks on data in the master data with respect to vendor, material and services master.

Contract Management and Contract Negotiation
- Assist with drafting, reviewing and administrative management of contracts
- Assist in the analysis required to manage tender processes (RFI/Q/P) on behalf of customers

Supplier Management - Supplier relationships and Supplier Performance Management
- Consolidate and report of supplier SLA performance

BBBEE- Preferential Procurement and Supplier Development
- Report of operations compliance in terms of preferred supplier spend
- Perform B-BBEE scorecard spend analysis for the allocated Category on a monthly basis to ascertain company performance against its target.

**Internal customers**
- Business Unit GM’s FM’s & Management Teams; Business Unit operational staff;

**External stakeholders**
- Supplier Commercial teams; Supplier Business owners

**Qualification, Experience and Competencies**

Academic qualifications

Essential:

- Tertiary qualification in procurement or related field such as
- Diploma in Transport Management/Supply Chain Management or Logistics, Engineering/ Finance/ Business/ Procurement/ IT and other relevant

Advantageous:

- Degree in relevant tertiary qualification
- Chartered Institute for Procurement and Supply (CIPS) membership and/or accreditation (MCIPS preferably) - Refer CIPS Global Standard - Operational Level

Note:

- Valid Driver’s license
- Maintaining Confidentiality is critical due to access to confidential information

**Work experience**
- One to Three Years in Procurement/Commercial/Finance/Operations
- Three to Five years in data analytics with exposure in strategic sourcing and optimal procurement processes and standards
- Proven performance in managing reporting processes or systems, including process performance metrics
- Experience in working within cross-functional teams
- Engaging at Senior Management level

**Advantageous**:

- Track record o



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