Procurement Officer Global Grade 09 - Isando, South Africa - Barloworld Equipment

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Key Outputs

  • Understand category strategies and sourcing plans to support their regional execution
  • Ensure a full understanding of regional buying needs
  • Identify future supply and/or demand issues to ensure a proactive and effective response
  • Provide intelligence on potential or existing issues
  • Check accuracy of PR data
  • Where contracts are not in place, select suppliers by getting quotations or executing local tender process (with support from Senior Procurement Officers)
  • Raise POs to selected suppliers
  • Track the orders and report on the order status
  • Follow up with suppliers to ensure correct delivery
  • Inform relevant Category Manager/Analyst about supplier pricing and delivery issues
  • Understand and keep up with macrotrends and regulations in the region and communicate findings with Category Managers/Analysts
  • Communicate supply and demand issues/changes with relevant Category Managers/Analysts
  • Ensure that managers in local plants get the value agreed to from Category Management
  • Link local end users to sourcing actions to ensure new supply agreements are developed and implemented appropriately.
  • Proactively manage operational risks and challenges stemming from regions
  • KPIs:
- % spend by P2P channel by plant

  • Number of days' reduction in P2P cycle time by plant
  • Number of deviations in good receipts versus PO
End user satisfaction


Qualification, Experience and Competencies

  • Tertiary qualification in Purchasing, Logistics or CIPS certificate (or equivalent)

Minimum Required Experience:


  • 13 years' experience in procurement
  • Preferably experience in multiple geographies/regions

Minimum Required Competencies:


  • Core competencies:
  • Analytical thinking
  • Attention to detail
  • Problem solving
  • Judgement/decision making
  • Verbal and written communication skills
  • Applied business numeracy
  • Excellence orientation
  • Ethical behaviour
  • Influencing and negotiation
  • Time and selfmanagement
  • Technical competencies:
  • Operational excellence
  • Analysis for business decision making
  • Business acumen
  • Supplier and local market insight

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