National Manager - Direct Procurement - Manufacturing

Strategise & manage implementation of activities for procurement of Raw Materials, Consumables (RMs), Spares and Packaging in order to ensure continuous manufacturing at factories. Meeting and exceeding budgeted cost savings in all spends in this category, by providing overall thrust and direction to team effort to meet the objectives & needs of the business.

Apply Procurement skills that meet customer requirements and deliver innovation, added value & savings for the business

1. Direction Setting :

- Leads & drives translation of Company objectives into Procurement objectives for the category in order to ensure that sourcing group tasks & aims are articulated, understood & accepted by the team and the business.

- Understands & interprets the overall business direction & objectives and develops & aligns plans for the category to enable their achievement.

- Develops plans and systems & processes to optimize the utilisation of resources for the category in order to successfully achieve business objectives.

2. Business Planning :

- Develops & communicates (to team members) short & long term plans that are comprehensive, realistic & effective in order to support all Procurement activities.

- Constructs & uses budgets to manage & monitor spends for the category and ensures that adjustment processes are in place for over/under achievement.

- Commits to and delivers savings/added value in line with department/business targets

3. Procurement Practices :

- Applies defined processes; be a part of cross functional teams to develop long term strategic source plans for spend categories.

- Collaborates with GP&T and CEPG Procurement teams in order to leverage material spend.

- Ensures thorough analysis of supply markets relative to category of expenditure in order to logically substantiate the evaluation of sourcing group & supplier management strategies.

- Review Key Performance Parameters for Inventory like DSI etc and ensure this are within acceptable norms of the company.

4. Supplier Relationship Management

- Manage relationships and ways of working with key suppliers in order to align understanding & commitment with customer expectations