- Lead supplier development, supplier negotiations, RFQs, and CMO category strategy for major suppliers.
- Identification of continuous improvement opportunities.
Supplier management
- Communicate and negotiate with suppliers
- Monitor quality standards and identify performance failures
- Conduct supplier audits and report on supplier performance
- Manage supplier communications and documents and process flow, including RFIs, RFP, RFQ, and RFBs
- Resolve supplier issues; maintain working relationships with key suppliers
- Set up new vendors and coordinate with legal to support new contracts; maintain/ update existing contracts
- Identify new suppliers and products in the marketplace
- Vet potential suppliers capabilities (delivery, quality, services)
- Review insourcing and outsourcing opportunities
- Negotiate with suppliers to carry stock for fast moving items
- Assist in the drafting of specifications as required, and provide advice and guidance to customers on procurement processes
- Review and approve price variances (Order vs Invoice Prices)
- BBBEE and procurement administration
- Maintain and report on adherence to internal and external compliance requirements
- Actively reduce third-party risk exposure
- Carry out risk management processes within CMO category
- Assist quality teams to obtain products needed to conduct finished product testing
- Schedule product trials and coordinate samples.
- Maintain repository of procurement-related knowledge
- Maintain complete, compliant documentation of purchasing activities
- Maintain standards and update SOPs for documentation and filing requirements
- Manage and optimise use of Category budget
- Provide input into required changes in resources to enable achievement of objectives
- Monitor, track and report on expenditure against budget
- Optimise processes, identify gaps in policies, procedures and legislation, and propose changes or improvements to management
- Provide technical advice to internal stakeholders
- 6 years' relevant experience
- Experience in a manufacturing procurement environment, and preferably with significant experience in a CMO environment
- National Diploma in relevant field (Procurement, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Finance), or a related discipline
- Computer literacy
- Customer Awareness
- Meeting Deadlines
- Making Decisions
- Planning and Organising
- Interrogating Information
