Regional Category Manager – Indirects

1 month ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Puma Energy Full time

Main Purpose:

The category manager has responsibility for the sourcing, procurement and commercial performance of suppliers of the category generating added value and cost savings regionally.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Understanding Business Requirements

Develop great working relationships with internal stakeholders across category portfolio Ensure all business requirements are considered in line with set company policies and procedures as well relevant legislation Take a short, medium and long term view on business requirements

Spend Analysis

Utilizes spend data to determine opportunities and priorities across all business units, categories and sub-categories Provides rigorous analysis of spend data and ensures that spend is effectively tracked and managed on a regular basis

Market Analysis

Supplier and category segmentation Evaluate market summary data to make effective sourcing decisions Develop and implement a strategy to manage and mitigate the supply chain risk associated with suppliers in the category Lead and contribute towards the development of TCO models for key categories jointly with the Cross Functional Sourcing Team (CFST) and project managers were relevant. Conduct supplier risk assessment

Planning

Develop sourcing or category strategies to support business requirements Identifies risks to supply and mitigates them where necessary Establishes robust prioritization of workload based on where most value can be added, balancing short term stakeholder requirements with medium to long term value adding actions

Category Management

Lead the business through the 7-step process Deploying strategic analytical tools to identify insights Present options to the suppliers Works cross functionally and involves support functions relevant throughout the process Formulate negotiation strategy and lead process Prepare bid adjudication analysis and recommendation for approval as per Delegation of Authority End to end management and reporting on the performance of the category

Contract Management

Negotiate and manage high value, critical and strategic commodity and service contracts - including amendments, price adjustments, verifying price increases and general contract administration. Integrate Business Unit contracts into framework agreements.

Ensuring the effectiveness of the Contracts by:

Communicating negotiated contracts to affected stakeholders. Benchmarking both pricing and commodity performance of strategic commodities against industry peers Increasing company-wide contract expenditure Reviewing supplier performance and contractual compliance regularly

Supplier Relationships

Managing strategic supplier relationships Represents Puma in relationships with suppliers Has the skills and experience to develop suppliers

REQUIREMENTS

Experience

Bachelor’s degree ideally with a further qualification in Procurement / Supply chain / Business Extensive industry experience Demonstrate working successfully across countries Able to demonstrate agility and efficiency in execution

Skills and Competencies

Strong leadership and management skills. Quality management – ability to set standards, processes, services and systems. Relationship building skills. The ability to act autonomously and deliver in different circumstances, clients, industries is critical. Propensity to learn new commodities and industries is critical. Attention to detail and analytical ability is required. Sound commercial knowledge. Business acumen. Good communication and negotiation skills. Advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Power Point and Excel. Confident and proactive self-starter – go getter Customer-focused and service-oriented.

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

Internal – Regional and country management teams / regional and global functional leaders / regional and country procurement teams/ Global teams External – Suppliers, trade bodies

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