Senior Procurement Manager

**AVI Ltd. **is known for its leading household brands across many categories including: hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel.

**NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED** operates 5 manufacturing sites, offering world class manufacturing facilities in Isando (Johannesburg), Rosslyn (Pretoria), Westmead and Durban (KZN). It is home to some of the best-known South African tea, coffee and creamer brands, including our delicious range of much-loved savoury and sweet biscuits, and our melt-in-your-mouth snack range.
- An exciting opportunity exists for a
**Senior Procurement Manager - Indirect Spend **at
**National Brands Limited Head Office**,
**Bryanston**,
**Johannesburg.** The Senior Procurement Manager - Indirect Spend is responsible for reducing the Total Cost of Ownership on the Capex and MRO spend categories across NBL. This includes ensuring continuity of supply and on-time delivery of Capex projects. This person deploys advanced procurement processes, techniques and methodologies to optimise supplier, equipment and product performance across this spend category to contribute significant and sustainable shareholder value.

**Line Manager**: Procurement Executive

**Number of Direct Reports**: 1

**Job Specification**:
**Key Performance Areas**:
**Sourcing Strategy Development**:

- Leads the development and implementation of sourcing strategies and projects across the spend category, through liaison and collaboration with the Operations Team and the formation of cross-functional sourcing teams

**Spend Analysis**:

- Continuous spend analysis across the spend portfolio with the aim of identifying, scoping and validating projects that will result in measurable value to the organisation
- Prioritising procurement involvement based on magnitude of spend, strategic importance and opportunities for value delivery

**TCO Reduction**:

- Is responsible for delivering and tracking quantifiable financial benefits through the reduction the Total Cost of Ownership and ensuring they are delivered onto the bottom-line
- Provides leadership to cross-functional sourcing teams in the deployment of strategic procurement levers and techniques on assigned commodities and projects within the spend category, which includes leading key RFx processes

**Central Point of Contact between Procurement and the Operations**:

- Acts as the central point of contact between Procurement and the Operations Team for all communications related to the spend category
- Includes the communication of standard processes, best practices, progress reporting and issue resolution

**Supplier Management**:

- Fosters and manages key supplier relationships to create short
- and long-term value for the NBL business
- Leads all efforts in educating the appropriate suppliers and internal stakeholders in the principles of Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

**Supplier Negotiation and Contracting**:

- Prepares for and leads key supplier negotiations
- Supports the drafting of contracts and SLAs (Service Level Agreements) and ensures Group Legal approval prior to implementation

**Minimum Requirements**:
**Experience**:

- Minimum 10 years procurement experience, of which at least 5 years must have been within a management role
- Experience and industry knowledge in Capex and MRO is essential
- Prior exposure to category/commodity management, procurement or an engineering or production environment is highly desirable
- Demonstrated success in managing a multi-disciplinary team in a project-type environment will be advantageous

**Qualifications**:

- Tertiary Qualification within Procurement, Business, Finance or Engineering field
- CIPS certification will be advantageous

**Additional Requirements**:

- Expertise in strategic sourcing and procurement processes
- Advanced negotiation skills
- Strategic cost analysis and financial management skills
- Facilitation, communication and change management skills
- Experience in procurement of Capex and MRO equipment, supplies and services
- Project Management Skills

**Competencies**:
- Working Together-
- Building Relationships-
- Taking Initiative-
- Articulating Information-
- Making Decisions-
- Staying Composed-
- Influencing Others-
- Maintaining Productivity