Procurement Specialist - Cape Town, South Africa - Teleperformance South Africa
Description
The Opportunity
The Procurement Specialist for South Africa is a hands-on member of the TPUK Group Procurement team and will additional take direction and have support from the local business lead - Head of Finance South Africa.
He/She will deliver value by strategically and tactically purchasing goods and services, with appropriate quality, at the best price and delivery at the right time.
He/She will consistently achieve cost reductions through process improvement and projects, ultimately maintaining an inventory of local and approved suppliers and an array of options for local in-country purchases.
Responsibilities & Accountabilities of the role
The Procurement Specialist runs purchasing activities South Africa, delivering products or services at the best price, quality, and time.
In this role, he/she will be responsible for:
- Purchasing goods and services in categories such as Facilities, IT Hardware and Software, Office supplies, Transport etc. The roleholder will additionally support the Head of Finance SA and/or the UK Group CFO in key property projects that include new leases, site configurations, client specific site changes.
- Efficiently managing the daytoday procurement operations to achieve the right service levels with transparency, and in compliance with the Teleperformance Group Procurement policies, processes and procurement guidelines.
- Serving as the point of contact, with his/her supervisor, for any procurement related questions, policy and procedure interpretation and alignment by all departments.
- Ensuring Category plan execution and contract compliance and collaborating with data for local or regional negotiations / analysis.
- Processing purchase orders (PO), developing bids and proposals; running RFPs; conducting regular rebidding for existing vendors to ensure the company has the best price.
- Tracking PO ontime delivery with vendors to achieve ETA compliance.
- Analyzing P2P flow to identify potential wastes and reduce the cycle time, contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Effectively communicating procurement and sourcing achievements, results, challenges and/or roadblocks on procurement activities and processes.
- Coowning, with his/her supervisor, the procurement dashboard by measuring and tracking procurement KPIs.
- Achieving robust and durable cost reductions, to improve the financial and competitive position of the company.
- Monitoring and controlling Supplier information and data maintenance, and making sure data is accurate and complete.
- Partnering and collaborating with the PSC (Procurement Service Center) team, where applicable, in regard of purchasing categories, as well as Procurement tools, systems, training & support guidance.
- Ensuring full utilization of internal synergies to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the inbound supply chain process, and accurately tracking such benefits.
- Fostering procurement early involvement with stakeholders and business partners.
- Ensuring compliance with Vendor Risk Program as part of the Supplier Management.
- Supplying continuity risk mitigation assessments and regular reviews in coordination with his/her supervisor and category leads to maintain the quality and consistency of goods and services.
- Addressing "critical to business" operational problems to supervisor and top leadership in a timely manner.
- Collaborating with ICQ and auditing processes. Working in alignment with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team for Energy efficiencies initiatives to reduce carbon footprint (clean energy evaluation, smart consumption campaigns, etc.).
- Experience, Qualifications & Skills, we are looking for degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Sourcing, Business, Logistics or related field Minimum of 3 years of experience in procurement, sourcing, managing a vendor base and vendors collaboration, ideally with experience in Facilities related procurement.
- Strong financial knowledge and analytic skills
- Resultsoriented, metricsdriven professional
- Lean Six Sigma Experience and Certification (Yellow or Green Belt preferred)
- Strong communication skills
Job Types:
Permanent, Full-time
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Cape Town,
Western Cape:
Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)
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