Consultant Sourcing - Johannesburg, South Africa - Absa Bank Limited

Absa Bank Limited
Absa Bank Limited
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Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Thabo Mthembu

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Bring your possibility to life Define your career with us

  • With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary


To provide advice and support in the development and implementation of procurement planning and associated service delivery processes, methods and techniques; enabling the procurement of company goods and or services in compliance with org.

policy.


Job Description:

Key Accountabilities

Category Management

  • Develop commodity strategies, category plans and commercial solutions aligned to "best in class" business drivers for delivering specific components thereof.
  • Develop a factbase to appropriately understand market analytics and category dynamics, these include Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models, comparative analysis, spend analysis, trend analysis, risk analysis, benchmarking etc.
  • Develop comprehensive business cases in order to support strategies for approval by senior stakeholders such as Head of Human Resources, Head of Marketing, Head of Cash Management and Head of IT Work with identified business area to embed and ensure compliance to the Group.
  • Sourcing SSMP policy as reported in the CAB decks for that business area each month.
  • Assist Sourcing Manager in delivery of commercial and contractual elements through commercial negotiations, leading to awarding contracts.
  • Ensure all financial, risk, strategic and commercial considerations are optimised through the use of due diligence checks, best in class strategies and general market knowledge
Benefits Realisation

  • Ensure sustainable savings by identifying opportunities and delivering benefits against all targets through effective cost reduction, cost avoidance and revenue generation opportunities.
  • Introduce Value Add and Value Engineering (VAVE) initiatives that will contribute to savings and maximise value.
  • Report on performance against targets for benefits realisation by extraction of data through MI.
  • Devise methods to optimise processes and eradicate waste in order to drive value throughout the supply chain.
  • Introduce innovation that will add strategic benefit through mutual relationships and synergies by working with the internal customer (business units) and third party suppliers.
Stakeholder Management

  • To support the organization in achieving its strategic objectives by interpreting and influencing both the external and internal environments and by creating positive relationships with stakeholders through the appropriate management of their expectations and agreed objectives.
  • Positioning stakeholders according to the level of influence, impact or enhancement they may provide to the business or it's projects.
  • Recognise and acknowledge stakeholder's needs, concerns, wants, authority, common relationships, interfaces and align this information with the overall delivery strategy.
  • Ensure communication standards are transparent, honest and open with stakeholders, which will be measured through Employee feedback in the Q2 and Q4 reviews.
Governance and Compliance

  • Ensure that all governance and compliance related requirements are adhered to from company and statutory perspectives as requested and reported by the Compliance team throughout the year.
  • Ensure that all targets against governance and compliance are met and maintained by reviewing the monthly reporting and working with the allocated business units.
  • Complete all training requirements in order to understand requirements against governance and compliance.
Contract Management

  • Delivery of effective contract management will include: Service delivery management ensuring that the service is being delivered as agreed, to the required level of performance and quality by working timeously and to agreed deadlines.
  • Create and maintain relationship to keep business engagements cordial.
  • Optimise the efficiency, effectiveness and economy of the service or relationship described in the contracts, by balancing costs against risks and actively managing the contractual relationship.
Transactional Integrity

  • Ensure transactional integrity is adhered to for each step in the P2P process and all transactions are inline with company compliance and policies by reviewing the monthly reporting and working with the allocated business units.
  • Ensure that all contractual information is loaded onto the Global Sourcing Platform (Sourcing Work Bench) for each deal that is completed prior to benefit sign off, as per the agreed Sourcing Process (sign off will not occur unless this is done).
  • Address all enquires in order to add resolution related to supplier payments and invoicing.
BBBEE, Transformation and Social Responsibility

  • Achieve all targets related to BBBEE and transformation through due consideration in the processes
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