Procurement Manager - Johannesburg, South Africa - Yum

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Johannesburg, South Africa

1 month ago

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Key Responsibilities

Developing and maintaining spend category strategies and plans

Driving the execution of category plans through formal category management and strategic sourcing methods

Benchmarking suppliers/categories, on an ongoing basis, to ensure optimal cost and performance

Developing existing and new suppliers' capabilities, and capacity, to ensure a top-performing supply chain

Ensuring effective internal and external stakeholder communication, involvement and buy-in


Strategic Thinking:

Define and implement category strategies to ensure the long-term success of the KFC business in Africa

Ensure contingency principles are defined and ready for implementation across suppliers

Leverage direction set by Senior Procurement Manager for commodities to setting local direction for long-term assured and cost-optimized supply

Build strong and collaborative relationships cross-functionally within our business and in the market with suppliers

Understand the macros of Africa as well as legislation that affects supply and build the relevant relationships where necessary to unlock supply risk

Ensure effective supply market research, commodity/ indices tracking, sourcing, cost analysis, contracting and supplier management techniques are used which reflects professional purchasing best practice


Planning:

Work with internal stakeholders to provide support where required to enable innovation & agility

Actively ensure suppliers are maintaining required resources & stock levels to assure the reliable supply of products and/or service

Develop existing and new suppliers' capabilities, and capacity, to achieve competitive advantage


Execution:

Overall accountable for Quality, Supply & Cost for suppliers

Execution of category plans to deliver commercial benefits and risk mitigation

Ensure effective negotiations of commercial terms whilst mitigating risk and exceeding stakeholders' requirements

Execution of supply contingency when required

Conduct Monthly, Quarterly and/or Annual Performance reviews with your suppliers around the quality of supply, cost of supply and supply reliability

Implement appropriate account management practices across the supply base - which include audits, management reviews, performance and risk management

Maintain good franchisee, distributor and supplier relationships

Ensure effective internal and external stakeholder communication, involvement and buy-in, including franchisees

Ensure all category management-related documentation and records are well maintained on the shared folders for knowledge building/retention and audit purposes

Stakeholders

Chief Supply Chain Officer, Supply Chain Director, Senior Procurement Manager, Global SC Team, SCM Team, Operations Team, Marketing Team, Franchisees and SA Leadership Team


Qualifications:

A Bachelor's degree in Commerce / Business / Engineering / Science

Knowledge and Skills


Problem solving and analysis:
Sourcing strategies, Pricing strategies, NPD plans, Regulatory, Demand & Supply Planning and Strategic negotiation


Innovation:
understand the technology landscape in the market for specific categories. Advanced service & product benchmarking capability


Judgment and decision-making: Strategic pricing and sourcing strategies. Risk mitigation and contingency execution. Final authority around sourcing and supply at the optimal cost and service resides within this job

Demand & Supply management

Influencing

Collaborating

Long-term thinking

Broad Supply Chain experience

Experience

A minimum of 5 to 7 years experience in management roles involved with strategic sourcing

Strong commercial acumen, with a track record in driving down total costs for products & services

Experience in strategic sourcing and purchase category management, including understanding supplier, product & service cost structures & drivers

Experience in managing Technology, Digital & Indirects categories essential

Ideally possess experience in formal project management

Competencies

Analytical; able to develop models and solve problems

Possess strategic negotiating skills and experience

Good communication, influencing and change management skills

Good facilitation and presentation skills

Able to work with ambiguity and be agile
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