Procurement Specialist

**Job Summary/Overview**:
To deliver value by strategically and tactically purchasing goods and services, with appropriate quality, at the best price and delivery at the right time. To consistently achieve cost reductions through process improvement and projects, ultimately maintaining an inventory of local and approved suppliers and an array of options for local in-country purchases.

**Responsibilities & Accountabilities of the role**:
The Procurement Specialist runs purchasing activities in South Africa and the UK, delivering products or services at the best price, quality, and time.

**In this role, the responsibility will be**:

- Purchasing goods and services in categories such as Facilities, IT Hardware and Software, Office supplies, Transport etc. The individual will additionally support the Head of Finance SA and/or the UK Group CFO in key property projects that include new leases, site configurations, client specific site changes.
- Efficiently managing the day-to-day procurement operations to achieve the right service levels with transparency, and in compliance with the Teleperformance Group Procurement policies, processes and procurement guidelines.
- Serving as the point of contact, with his/her supervisor, for any procurement related questions, policy and procedure interpretation and alignment by all departments.
- Ensuring Category plan execution and contract compliance, and collaborating with data for local or regional negotiations / analysis.
- Processing purchase orders (PO), developing bids and proposals; running RFPs; conducting regular re-bidding for existing vendors to ensure the company has the best price.
- Tracking PO on-time delivery with vendors to achieve ETA compliance.
- Analyzing P2P flow to identify potential wastes and reduce the cycle time, contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Effectively communicating procurement and sourcing achievements, results, challenges and/or roadblocks on procurement activities and processes.
- Co-owning, with his/her supervisor, the procurement dashboard by measuring and tracking procurement KPIs.
- Achieving robust and durable cost reductions, to improve the financial and competitive position of the company.
- Monitoring and controlling Supplier information and data maintenance, and making sure data is accurate and complete.
- Partnering and collaborating with the PSC (Procurement Service Center) team, where applicable, in regard of purchasing categories, as well as Procurement tools, systems, training & support guidance.
- Ensuring full utilization of internal synergies to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the inbound supply chain process, and accurately tracking such benefits.
- Fostering procurement early involvement with stakeholders and business partners.
- Ensuring compliance with Vendor Risk Program as part of the Supplier Management.
- Supplying continuity risk mitigation assessments and regular reviews in coordination with his/her supervisor and category leads to maintain the quality and consistency of goods and services.
- Addressing “critical to business” operational problems to supervisor and top leadership in a timely manner.
- Collaborating with ICQ and auditing processes. Working in alignment with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team for Energy efficiencies initiatives to reduce carbon footprint (clean energy evaluation, smart consumption campaigns, etc.).
- Experience, Qualifications & Skills, we are looking for degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Sourcing, Business, Logistics or related field Minimum of 3 years of experience in procurement, sourcing, managing a vendor base and vendors collaboration, ideally with experience in Facilities related procurement.
- Strong financial knowledge and analytic skills
- Results-oriented, metrics-driven professional
- Lean Six Sigma Experience and Certification (Yellow or Green Belt preferred)
- Strong communication skills

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- Degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Sourcing, Business, Logistics or related field
- Preferable Qualifications - Supply Chain Degree / Diploma / Lean Six Sigma
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in procurement, sourcing, managing a vendor base and vendors collaboration, ideally with experience in Facilities related procurement
- Indirect Sourcing experience
- Strong financial knowledge and analytic skills
- Strong communication skills

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Work Location: In person