Category Manager – Raw Materials and Ingredients

7 days ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Lactalis South Africa Full time R900 000 - R1 200 000 per year
Job Description

Join Lactalis at our offices in Western Cape and take on the challenge of the Category Manager – Raw Materials and Ingredients role. The purpose of this role is to manage the procurement operations of defined category responsibility, increasing the spend coverage and identifying opportunities for process improvement and cost reduction. This exciting career opportunity will enable you to apply your business acumen to ensure that the company achieves this challenging objective during the next phase of its growth in South Africa.



Duties & Responsibilities


• Category Management:
     
• Multi-Sourcing, tender management, negotiation, contracts
     
• Category strategies of top spend category's

• Supplier performances review

• Consolidation (suppliers), synergies & coordination between countries

• Implementation of Systems & Procedures where applicable

• Strategic Sourcing Management

• Risks Management: Identification and counter measures in place

• Drive Savings Initiatives (Value analysis, new suppliers, etc.): Identification & Implementation

• Manage and improve overall suppliers' performances

• Escalation Management

• Stakeholders Management (Internal: Industrial, Mktg, R&D, Quality, supply chain)

• Contribute to innovation and fast route to market

• Project Management in terms of:

• Value analysis, (role player)

• Supplier change overs

• New product launches.

• Dual Sourcing – the scope to still be extended

• Vendor Management & Evaluation

• Vendor Audits in association with Quality Dept

• Negotiation and Supplier Relationship Management

• Item and vendor Code Creation – Data collection

• Contract Creation

• Indirect Spend Coverage

• Coordination with production planning on potential supply concerns– S&OP

• Vendor payment Reconciliation

• Risk assessment & Mitigation

• Vendor governance

• Ensure quality, service level and cost of goods/service procured is delivered to agreed contracts.

• Analyse KPI performance of supplier portfolio to identify additional savings other improvement opportunities

• Periodic budget preparation, analysis and tracking of own supplier portfolio

• Ensure Master data is maintained

• Support implementation of global and local procurement standard and all processes within procurement policy

• Participates in development of strategy.


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