Category Lead

3 days ago

Port Elizabeth, South Africa Aspen Pharma Group Full time

**Overview**
- Lead supplier development, supplier negotiations, RFQs, and CMO category strategy for major suppliers.
- Identification of continuous improvement opportunities

**Responsibilities**

**Supplier management**
- Communicate and negotiate with suppliers.
- Monitor quality standards and identify performance failures.
- Conduct supplier audits and report on supplier performance.
- Manage supplier communications and documents and process flow, including RFIs, RFP, RFQ, and RFB’s.
- Resolve supplier issues; maintain working relationships with key suppliers.
- Set up new vendors and coordinate with legal to support new contracts; maintain/ update existing contracts.
- Identify new suppliers and products in the marketplace.
- Vet potential suppliers’ capabilities (delivery, quality, services).
- Review insourcing and outsourcing opportunities.
- Negotiate with suppliers to carry stock for fast moving items.
- Assist in the drafting of specifications as required and provide advice and guidance to customers on procurement processes.
- Review and approve price variances (Order vs Invoice Prices).
- BBBEE and procurement administration.

**Risk management**
- Maintain and report on adherence to internal and external compliance requirements.
- Actively reduce third-party risk exposure.
- Carry out risk management processes within CMO category.

**Quality and qualifying products**
- Assist quality teams to obtain products needed to conduct finished product testing.
- Schedule product trials and coordinate samples.

**Reporting and record keeping**
- Maintain repository of procurement-related knowledge.
- Maintain complete, compliant documentation of purchasing activities.
- Maintain standards and update SOPs for documentation and filing requirements.

**Budgeting**
- Manage and optimise use of Category budget.
- Provide input into required changes in resources to enable achievement of objectives.
- Monitor, track and report on expenditure against budget.

**Planning and coordination**
- Optimise processes, identify gaps in policies, procedures, and legislation, and propose changes or improvements to management.
- Provide technical advice to internal stakeholders.

**Skills required**

**Background/experience**
- 6 years' relevant experience
- Experience in a manufacturing procurement environment, and preferably with significant experience in a CMO environment.
- National Diploma in relevant field (Procurement, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Finance), or a related discipline

**Specific job skills**
- Computer literacy

**Competencies**
- Customer Awareness
- Meeting Deadlines
- Making Decisions
- Planning and Organising
- Interrogating Information

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