Senior Manager Procurement

1 week ago

Paarl, South Africa Kaap Agri Full time

As a diversified, growth-focused company, we are looking for talented employees who are committed to accelerating performance, passionate about adding value to the customer experience and who embraces our “mens-mense”culture which drives us to create place where people still count._

**Job Specification**

The incumbent would be leading a highly specialised Category Management team responsible for a portfolio of Retail Categories of the Group. The portfolio includes the categories Outdoor, Hunting, Gas, Pets, Pool, Gardening and Irrigation. The Category Management team owns the end-to-end Supply Chain of the Categories, which includes:

- Supplier selection & performance management
- Purchasing (negotiations & contracting)
- Supply compliance management
- Item cataloguing and ranging
- Clustering and assortment optimisation
- Demand planning (DC & Stores)
- Central replenishment (DC & Stores)
- Stockholding optimisation (DC & Stores)
- Retail trading space optimisation
- Claims management (DC & Stores)
- Retail selling price management (including margin management)
- Markdown and promotions
- Online (item enrichment, e-catalogue, pricing, ranging)

**Minimum Requirements**
- Tertiary Qualification (relevant Bachelor’s degree)
- A minimum of **8** **years’** related retail procurement experience, of which **5 years** should be at a senior level
- Ability to integrate sophisticated data analytics, scenario planning and execution
- Handle complexity of a procurement book valued at ±R1b.

**Key performance indicators**

**Growth**
- Awareness of the context and impact of procurement on a business and leading the efficient and timeous execution of the category strategies.
- Engaging and maintaining productive and value adding relationships with customers as well as internal and external stakeholders whilst influencing best fit procurement solutions.

**Optimisation**
- Supply base rationalisation
- Stores clustering and assortment optimisation
- Demand forecasting and central buying
- Central selling price management
- Stock optimisation
- Governance in all aspects of the Retail Channel Category management environment

**Leveraging Culture** & Diversity**
- Leading cross functional high impact teams
- Vendor & contract management - nationally
- Optimising the resource balance of the team - talent fit

**Digital Transformation**
- Market information mining by scanning the macro environment - trend analyses
- Business to Supplier - Retail input trading portal (EDI)
- Business to Customer - E-commerce (online)

**Key leadership attributes**
- The incumbent would need to have t_**_he ability to progress and add continuous incremental value - having impact_**

**Dealing with complexity**
- Big picture mindset, particularly the ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty
- Connected - implement industry leading strategy
- Information integration resulting in appropriate decision making

**Sound pragmatic judgement**
- Able to navigate through detail and create easy to understand pragmatic solutions

**Self - awareness**
- Confident
- Strong sense of self and self - belief
- Eager to learn
- Can adapt to changing circumstances
- Seeks understanding
- Passion and Drive

**Achievement orientation**
- Delivers results
- Clear and purposeful - leadership influence
- Self - driven
- Wants to succeed
- Competitive
- Ambitious
- Resilience and Foresight

**_

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