Senior Category Manager Global Grade 14

3 weeks ago


Isando, South Africa Barloworld Equipment Full time

**Core purpose of the role**

The core purpose of the role is to lead the category and proactively source business requirements through developing and executing Category sourcing strategy and extracting value from the spend. This includes translating the strategic sourcing strategy and policies for the Category to create and unlock optimal value for Barloworld Equipment. The incumbent is responsible for formulating and driving a consistent approach toward all sourcing, purchasing and tendering activity within the governance framework of the business and ensuring that value for money is maximised and cost-savings are generated. This includes all high value, high complexity, repetitive, standardised strategic spend items and all capital/assets related spend. The incumbent is also responsible for building strong relationships with suppliers and service providers, negotiating the best deals based on quality, delivery and price, and tracking & reporting on performance against contractual agreements and business targets.

**Key deliverables and outputs**

**Strategy execution**
- Develop and execute Category sourcing strategy and implement the relevant policies and procedures for cost effective and efficient strategic sourcing and supplier management.
- Perform a need analysis through engagement with internal and external stakeholders
- Develop Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the sourcing of goods and service to achieve efficiencies by cutting waste out of the supply chain
- Drive transformation agenda by incorporating and implementing ESD strategy during the category sourcing strategy.
- Effectively execute the sourcing event e.g., RFX
- Identify opportunities to leverage economies of scale and develop proposals and recommendations for consideration and approval by the appropriate leads in the business.
- Lead and contribute to business initiatives that are designed to improve supply chain efficiency, maintain product quality standards, and reduce costs.
- Evaluate and understand market conditions to develop competitive sourcing strategies to control costs.
- Ensure internal & external Category profiling
- Develop relevant category sourcing strategy and acquire relevant approval

Financial Targets
- Identifying and execute Value opportunities, cost reduction savings opportunities and sourcing execution pipeline through strategic sourcing methodology
- Contribute to the development of and ensure the achievement of the agreed financial targets for the strategic sourcing category.
- Develop and implement tactics to extract value from the spend and unlock optimal value for the Division.
- Implement Benefits tracking & monitoring
- Drive the realisation of savings, supply efficiency, quality, and process improvements
- Contribute to the business budgeting process by providing goods and service pricing and unit rates

Contract management
- Develop, manage, and deploy high value contracts to ensure the business meets its contractual obligations and derives the desired value.
- Implement Contract compliance monitoring
- Identify and manage risks that may arise through the operation of the contract and implement robust financial and operational controls.
- Conduct fact-based negotiation to negotiate the best quality, delivery, and price with suppliers for products and services, and compile regular value-creation reports demonstrating cost savings, using fact-based negotiation
- Monitor volume thresholds/economies of scale and exercise negotiation leverage on price

Supplier Management
- Conduct fact-based negotiation with suppliers to enhance suppliers value proposition
- Supplier relationship management to capture relevant innovation and mitigate supply risks
- Manage supplier performance to ensure delivery on SLAs (CSI rating using survey methodologies)
- Collaborate with the Transformation Manager to integrate the business and B-BBEE requirements to identify, evaluate and develop / improve the supplier database; ensure that the B-BBEE enterprise and supplier development requirements are prioritised.
- Ensure that the B-BBBEE credentials of suppliers are current and support the business and transformation objectives.
- Regularly monitor and ensure the alignment between suppliers' operational performance, compliance with the strategic sourcing policy and Barloworld values and standards.
- Analyse product usage trends and determine consistency of product usage to maximize cost and quality efficiencies.
- Build and maintain strong supportive and mutually beneficial relationships with operational and functional management and their suppliers.
- Analyse and report on supplier trends to ensure relevance and market intelligence to the business.

Reporting, Risk, Ethics and Compliance
- Track identified, captured, and realised cost reduction savings and provide reporting
- Ensure that the legal, regulatory and policy requirements and complied with by the business and its suppliers.
- Identify and remove potential barriers to


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