Head of Procurement

**Procurement**
**JHB Central**
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**Head of Procurement - ILLOVO JHB**

**R1 300 000p/a CTC**

**Role Description**

The role is part of the procurement team with primary role as procurement
- governance, legislation, and compliance management duties. Working in close contact with the procurement team and internal stakeholders.

**KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS (Duties and Responsibilities)**

**Strategic Alignment**
- Contribute towards the development of company’s strategic plans.
- Compile and present departmental strategy for Exco review and input into broader organisational strategy.
- Ensures that financial transactions, policies, and procedures meet short
- and long-term-term business objectives and regulatory body requirements.
- Identification of departmental risks and implementing departmental risk management strategy.

**Operational**
- Monitor all procurement activities
- Market analysis plus total supplier base management
- Report to the executive management team
- Procurement department internal and external reporting on KPIs
- Ensure sourcing decisions are made in accordance with approved strategies
- Ensure supplier bidding/selection in accordance with the procurement policies and procedures and enforce implementation
- Ensure early supplier involvement in cost management initiatives to ensure achievement of associated targets
- Developing and implement procurement strategies and methodologies
- Manage and structure the company’s relationship with the supply base
- Perform and monitor supplier evaluation
- Enforce and regulate transactional processes in accordance with both policies and procedures
- Interaction with the company’s procurement function
- Interaction with business departments on critical procurement matters to ensure improved procurement efficiencies

**Policy and governance**
- Review and implement procurement-related policies. This includes enterprise and supplier development (ESD) policies
- Ensure that all governance structures both within the department and at corporate level are operational
- Ensure business is kept abreast with procurement practices
- Manage procurement-related risks

**Sustainable development**
- Develop and implement Enterprise & Supplier Development strategies and initiatives
- Promote transformation through procurement best practices and policies e.g. B-BBEE and PPPFA
- Review and support local content strategies

**Budgeting and financial responsibilities**
- Execute the Budgeting and forecasting process for the company
- Manage the departmental budget, ensure expenditure within set parameters
- Prepare reports for Board and Board Committee packs contribute towards the business strategic planning.

**People Management**
- Ensure that annual performance objectives are set and understood by team members
- Development areas identified and career development plans in place for team members
- Manage team performance, ensuring that non-performance is dealt with accordingly and to achieve individual and organisational goals and objectives
- Developing a skilled team capable of assisting the company with the achievement of its objectives
- Identify resourcing needs and participate in the recruitment of staff
- Ensure that all staff are trained, skilled and that their expertise is fully applied
- Ensure that working environment contributes improving staff morale and increased productivity

**Qualifications and experience**
- A tertiary 3-year Diploma/Degree (Commerce/Supply Chain/Business) or related procurement qualification
- Related Postgraduate qualification advantageous
- MCIPS certification an added advantage
- At least a minimum of 10 years’ proven working experience in supervising/managing ithers within procurement of supply chain management
- Excellent knowledge of sourcing and procurement techniques
- Strong Commercial acumen, exceptional eye for details, including experience in leading negotiations.

**Knowledge**
- Leadership for Impact (Direct and Virtual)
- Complexity within the workplace
- Conflict management
- Influencing others
- Information processing
- Problems solving
- Risk management
- Public sector industry