Purchasing Manager

6 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa L'Oreal Full time

**DESCRIPTION**:
The Purchasing Manager will be responsible for managing and coordinating the category, business, innovation, or performance team, in line with the Group’s purchasing strategies and policies.

**KEY JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES**:

- Analyses business needs and challenges demand: Anticipate major evolution of needs.
- Propose the most valuable option involving internal and external networks/resources.
- Use VA methodology as a part of the culture of need expression.
- Defines purchasing strategy: define the best-suited supplier portfolio (for a division or a category).
- Develop Market intelligence tools on categories.
- Drive changes in the market structure.
- Input, build and/or challenge category strategies.
- Optimizes costs: Capture breakthrough ideas coming from the suppliers.
- Maximize value creation opportunities impacting P&L and Top Line.
- Activate all levers of the value chain through the Cost Models.
- Anticipates business activity and acts proactively: Input business needs or lead the category strategy.
- Animate the network, lead best practices, and drive advocacy.
- Ensure competitiveness and that the strategy is implemented successfully.
- Use breakthrough sourcing strategies to create value (P&L and Top Line).
- Maximizes Supplier Relationships: Create a preferred customer relationship with strategic suppliers.
- Develop strategic suppliers to sustain growth.
- Drive improvement projects with strategic suppliers impacting P&L and Top Line contribution.
- Creates value and innovates: Capture innovation opportunities form internal & external sources.
- Lead strategic projects. Manage financial cost and impact. Get the buy-in, communicate with steering committee mode to the sponsors, stakeholders. Be empowered to take key decisions or to escalate to stakeholders.
- Negotiates with integrity: Coach and challenge teams in terms of negotiation strategy, use innovative negotiation levers. Unlock stalemate situation.
- Operates according to internal control principles and legal rules: Develop a competitive advantage (exclusivity, group strategy, innovation, CSR).
- Negotiate Global, high stake contracts. Negotiate intellectual property, licensing, exclusivity agreements for innovation.
- Evaluates and manage risks: Define and implement risk management policy. Implement advanced/breakthrough methodologies or tools to secure risk. Manage regulatory risks.
- Manages Performance and efficiency: Be accountable for purchasing performance. Formulate functional improvements for processes and tools. Formulate recommendations based of Supplier P&L analysis or L'Oréal/Brand P&L.
- Challenge Financial and logistics managers when purchasing is impacted by other functions. Ensure data quality.
- Supports and manages stakeholders’ relationships: Communicate / manage projects /share suppliers’ information with stakeholders, influence stakeholders. Drive and grow Purchasing Share of Voice among stakeholders.
- B-BBEE Awareness and Compliance.
- Manage the LOREALs BBBEE purchasing strategy.
- Manage the collation of all suppliers BBBEE certificates.
- Monitor performance of BBBEE suppliers in line with the overall LOREAL’s strategy - remove barriers of entry and promote acceptable criteria of performance standards of suppliers.
- Ensure the creation of BBBEE awareness in the work performed by purchasing.
- Supplier Management.
- Generate and implement a pipeline of ongoing indirect procurement savings projects.
- Ensure that top 80% verndor spend is managed by purchasing.
- Run RFQ’s and RFP’s inline with group norms using LOREALS online platform tool.
- Find and on-board approved, reliable and competitive suppliers for goods and services.
- Negotiate supplier agreements ensuring that top 80% vendor spend is covered with an approved supplier agreement.
- Ensure that all supplier contracts are compliant, up to date and saved on the MYCONTRCT (LOREAL Contract Platform).
- Manage and maintain the supplier master data Manage suppliers to contractual obligations as required and with regular intervals.
- Reporting and Information management.
- Analysis and report on indirect procurement spend.
- Ensure adherence to all Group reporting requirements.
- Ensure high standard of reporting and that reporting deadlines are met.
- Maintain complete and accurate supplier information on the various purchasing platforms (TEAMS, MYSOURCING and MYMARKET).
- SAP and MYMARKET.
- Manage SAP vendor master data ensuring that all data accurate and up to date.
- Arrange for all new catalogues and suppliers to be promptly loaded on the MYMARKET SYSTEM.
- Ensure that all vendor categorisation and information is maintained and updated with the latest purchasing strategies.
- Fleet Management.
- Manage the LOREAL Fleet vehicles.
- Fleet Reporting (Fines, Over Utalization).
- Ensure that Maintenance is done.

**PROFESSIONAL & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES**

**NURTURES THE PIONEERING SPIRIT**
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