Education and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in supply chain/commerce/engineering/industrial psychology
• Minimum 3 Years’ experience in Procurement
• Experience in category management, preferably in IT
• Sage Experience (2 Years’ experience) will be an added advantage

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
STRATEGIC
? Assume a lead role in developing and implementing commodity sourcing strategies based on existing and forecasted spend
? Optimise sourcing per category through spend analysis and optimisation with a total cost of ownership approach
? Lead and/or participate on cross-functional teams to ensure that Discovery is leveraging spend and driving best value
? Support internal customers for the sourcing of goods and services. This is accomplished by following established and approved procurement policies and procedures in order to provide the lowest cost consistent with quality and service requirements while maintaining good supplier relations.
? Optimise procurement savings
? Support the administration of all contract price escalation (annual/quarterly) indices, spend rebates
? Maintain effective working relationships with external customers and /or suppliers with a view to assess or improve the quality of the procurement and purchasing.
? Provide technical specialist advice in the negotiating of service level agreements and pricing
? Eliminate poor data quality and loss in cost savings opportunities
? Increase contract coverage and process efficiency
OPERATIONAL
? Interface with line planning managers to plan and prioritise purchasing activities
? Interact and communicate with internal stakeholder to ensure that operational SLAs are met
? Interact and communicate with suppliers on a daily basis to resolve transactional issues and gather critical information (invoices, tracking info, tax docs etc.)
? Request competitive quotes and proposals
? Conduct contract pricing validation for all purchase requests under category management responsibility
? Review planned orders, create requisitions for purchased items
? Manage approval processes including the weekly ITCAPEX approval process
? Review, update, and maintain purchase orders until they are closed (receipting)
? Resolving invoice price terms discrepancies to enable order processing
? Make decisions using sound judgment while complying with policies, procedures, appropriate principles and applicable laws and regulations.
Personal Attributes and Skills
Behavioural Skills
• Stress Management
• Time management and prioritization
• Creativeness
• Learning orientation
• Negotiation skills
• Innovation

Technical Skills
• operate independently and under pressure,
• Perform multiple concurrent tasks and responsibilities and to deal with changing priorities while maintaining personal effectiveness
• strong negotiation skills
• understand contract terms and risk mitigation
• able to communicate (orally and in writing) and be responsive to internal customer requirements
• be decisive and driven by deadlines, bias for action
• be willing to challenge ideas and provide suggestions which are in the best interests of the company
• able to work collaboratively with internal customers and other procurement professionals
• exhibit sound interpersonal skills involving interfacing, coordinating and negotiating with internal customers and suppliers