Our automotive distributor client is looking to employ and EE Procurement Manager for their business.

Key Responsibilities & Duties
• Identifying and implementing areas of improvement related to category and supplier strategies that leverage COMPANY spend and deliver
significant economic benefits.
• Draft and implement a proper procurement policy
• Develops and implements strategies for procuring
• The development, control, reporting and measurement of compliance to procurement policies, processes and procedures.
• Establish and manage a centralized vendor on-boarding process.
• Defining new procurement processes that are efficient and effective.
• In conjunction with the COMPANY’S Legal Department, implement contracts and negotiate favourable contractual trading terms and
conditions to meet business requirements.
• Oversee all contracts and SLA’s entered into by Importer and 44 dealerships nationwide
• Maintain database of all contracts and SLA’s with suppliers
• Review all SLA’s and contracts to ensure that the company is not at risk
• Advise business of optimal payment terms
• Identifies and researches potential new suppliers that comply with company standards
• Researches new products and services to meet company's goals
• Assesses total costs of company purchases and initiate cost saving initiatives
• Evaluating New and Existing Suppliers
• Continuously improving external supplier quality, service, innovation, delivery and costs.
• The procurement manager must evaluate prospective suppliers before signing them up to ensure they meet the organization’s needs.
• The aim is to sign up a supplier who can deliver goods and services in the agreed quantities, in a timely manner, whilst observing quality
measures.
• The suppliers must comply with our BBBEE expectations
• Although the procurement manager will not be able to dictate the use of specific suppliers, they will have to provide recommendations based
on pricing and customer service
• The procurement manager must ensure that suppliers pricing is reviewed on a regular basis and provide details to GM’s of suppliers who are
not market related
• Manage database of current supplier and ensure that all details of suppliers are updated, including BBBEE information
• The procurement manager is also responsible for maintaining and reviewing all records of contracts and SLA’s entered into longer than
month-to-month.
• Maintain and update data such as information about suppliers’ products and prices and BBBEE status
• Strong organizational skills required to find the right data in a timely manner, as well as an eye for detail to ensure that the data pulled
includes the correct information.
• Business analytics of all spend within the COMPANY so as to enable better decision making.
• Analyse current suppliers listing and provide business with accurate cost per product / service per supplier information
• To support the business through risk reduction, value extraction and cost saving initiatives.
• Identifying risks inherent in procurement and escalating these to the appropriate senior level within the Business.
• Supporting budget process.
• Ensuring that resources from both the Divisions and Group Procurement are coordinated to drive maximum value from the supplier base and
that the suppliers are appropriately managed.
• Lead operational management of external suppliers in terms of B-BBEE, service, quality, cost and delivery in line with agreed Contract and

Service Level Agreement.
• Liaises with key company employees to determine their product and service needs
• The purpose of the procurement manager is to provide relevant and accurate information on a timely manner to business
• This information should be used mainly to support business in selecting preferred suppliers to improve the company’s overall BBBEE score
and to ensure cost reduction
• Support and facilitate local, regional, and national business requirements.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Skills required
1. Strong leadership skills
2. Strong procurement management skills
3. Ability to create an efficient and conducive work environment
4. Good communication and presentation skills
5. Project management skills
6. People management skills
7. Committed financial professional
8. Knowledge and practise in all current statutory requirements
9. Ability to make Procurement Analysis and Decisions
10. BBBEE development, management, admin, collation of data for certification
11. Good at Networking,
12. Data Analysis,
13. Good Business Instincts
14. Mathematics Skill
15. Good Negotiator
16. Financial Analysis Skills
17. Understanding of Supply Chain Management Procedures
18. Strategic Planning Abilities

Qualifications and Experience
• Minimum BCom degree or equivalent in Procurement
• Minimum 4 - 6 years in Procurement Management at Senior Management level
• Must know and be familiar with the relevant legislation/s
• Must come from a corporate/industrial/commercial/finance environment
• MS Office, Email, Word, PowerPoint and Excel at progressive level
• Knowledge of BBBEE revised codes

Working environment

Open-plan environment