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Senior Manager - Sandton, South Africa - Procter & Gamble
Description
Description
Procter & Gamble Purchases is part of the Supply Chain function and has the unique responsibility for developing and executing the sourcing strategies for the Company's multi-billion-dollar goods and services needed to produce world class consumer products. As a Purchases professional, your goal is to link the most appropriate supplier capabilities with our business needs and contribute to delivering the best shareholder return. Your everyday work will consist of technical, analytical, and commercial skills to source for P&G in South Africa. The demand for Purchases expertise has never been higher, and the excitement and opportunities at Procter & Gamble are boundless
You'll be part of a purchasing team in which trust, team spirit, real passion for winning and leadership are very important.
Your team
This role reports to Purchasing Director who is responsible for Indirect Purchases for South Africa.
How success looks like
Purchases people are P&G's lifeline to the world of suppliers, translating the needs of our business in a way that enables, encourages, and invites our supply base to partner with us in providing products and services of superior quality and value that improve the lives of our consumers. We are looking for people with the intellectual capacity, creative intelligence and strategic insight to join our team.
Productivity:
• Value creation in line with cost and cash targets
• True business leadership through building partnerships
• Develop and execute sourcing and negotiation strategies
Constructive Disruption
• Bring the outside in though innovative thinking
• Simply through digital platforms and create change
• Strive to deliver value through value stream mapping exercises and the like
Stewardship and Governance:
• Plan, Execute and Review appropriate internal controls to protect Company's assets.
• Regular documentation reviews in line with stewardship guidelines
• Lead audit processes as required
• Demonstrate stewardship across all key action areas – business and fundamentals reporting.
• Leverages multi-functional resources to analyse key gaps
Organization
• Understand and build skills within the organization
• Personal Mastery of Purchasing Skills Framework.
• Lead or support Purchasing E&I and Citizenship projects
Responsibilities of the role
• Participate as a critical member of a cross-functional team in one of our Organizational Units (like Business or Market) to deliver a new service or technology to market.
• Partnering with multi-functional organizations to improve our efficiency and effectiveness at reaching P&G consumers with super communication.
• Encourage innovation from our external business partners by building a relationship with P&G and describing what P&G is looking for.
• Working with internal customers and with the management of supplier companies to resolve financial or supply or quality issues that affect our business plans.
• Owns definition and execution of sourcing tactics, including stakeholder alignment and external communication
• Leads projects on defined intervention areas (savings, technical, cost structure, relationship, stewardship)
• Analyzing market trends and supplier landscape
• Providing insights and recommendations to senior management and suppliers
• Spotting and exploiting emerging trends and technologies
• Uncovering business-building ideas and cost-saving opportunities
• Designing sourcing strategies that improves the value, availability and technology of the service
• Striking deals through negotiation or leading competitive bidding
• Building effective working relationships with suppliers
• Creating and capitalizing on new approaches such as e-marketplaces
• Qualifications
o Bachelor's Degree with 5+ years Media experience preferably in FMCG environment
o Leader who are passionate to make things happen, collaborating well with diverse groups of people
o Have an external focus and a real passion for Purchasing / Marketing & Finance
o Analytical Skills - Demonstrate ability to visualize, articulate concepts and solve problems, and make or influence decisions that make sense based on available information. Apply logical thinking to capturing and analyzing information, crafting and testing solutions to problems, and formulating plans.
o Ownership and Leadership - Ability to recognize strategic opportunities and be able to enroll others in disruptive thinking to get results. Ability to influence across functional boundaries (Brand Managers, Finance, Legal, Operations, Purchases) to develop and deliver strategy and relationship management action plans to achieve outstanding results.
o Ability to Build and Sustain Relationships - Demonstrate ability to lead high-level interactions with internal business partners, suppliers and agencies, working effectively across functions, geographies and cultures. Must be able to build relationships and influence others via excellent interpersonal skills, despite many remote relationships. You will invest significant time/effort to handle supplier relationship(s), development of supplier relationship management strategies and execution of joint business plans.
About us
We produce globally recognized brands and we grow the best business leaders in the industry. With a portfolio of trusted brands as diverse as ours, it is paramount our leaders are able to lead with courage the vast array of brands, categories and functions. We serve consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always, Ariel, Gillette, Head & Shoulders, Herbal Essences, Pampers, Pantene and more. Our community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide.
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Our consumers are diverse and our talents - internally - mirror this diversity to best serve it. That is why we're committed to building a winning culture based on inclusion and our ideal candidate is passionate about the same principle: you will join our daily effort of being "in touch" so we craft brands and products to improve the lives of the world's consumers now and in the future. We want you to inspire us with your unrivaled ideas.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, disability, or any other legally protected factor.
Procter & Gamble
Our goal is to use every opportunity we have —no matter how small— to set change in motion. To be a force for good and a force for growth. For you, for the world, and for every generation to come.
Job Qualifications
About us
We produce globally recognized brands and we grow the best business leaders in the industry. With a portfolio of trusted brands as diverse as ours, it is paramount our leaders are able to lead with courage the vast array of brands, categories and functions. We serve consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always, Ariel, Gillette, Head & Shoulders, Herbal Essences, Pampers, Pantene and more. Our community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide.
Visit ;to know more.
Our consumers are diverse and our talents - internally - mirror this diversity to best serve it. That is why we're committed to building a winning culture based on inclusion and our ideal candidate is passionate about the same principle: you will join our daily effort of being "in touch" so we craft brands and products to improve the lives of the world's consumers now and in the future. We want you to inspire us with your unrivaled ideas.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, disability, or any other legally protected factor.
Procter & Gamble
Our goal is to use every opportunity we have —no matter how small— to set change in motion. To be a force for good and a force for growth. For you, for the world, and for every generation to come.
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