Purchasing Manager [South Africa]

 

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DESCRIPTION:

The Purchasing Manager will be responsible for managing and coordinating the category, business, innovation, or performance team, in line with the Group’s purchasing strategies and policies.

KEY JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Analyses business needs and challenges demand: Anticipate major evolution of needs.
• Propose the most valuable option involving internal and external networks/resources.
• Use VA methodology as a part of the culture of need expression.
• Defines purchasing strategy: define the best-suited supplier portfolio (for a division or a category).
• Develop Market intelligence tools on categories.
• Drive changes in the market structure.
• Input, build and/or challenge category strategies.
• Optimizes costs: Capture breakthrough ideas coming from the suppliers.
• Maximize value creation opportunities impacting P&L and Top Line.
• Activate all levers of the value chain through the Cost Models.
• Anticipates business activity and acts proactively: Input business needs or lead the category strategy.
• Animate the network, lead best practices, and drive advocacy.
• Ensure competitiveness and that the strategy is implemented successfully.
• Use breakthrough sourcing strategies to create value (P&L and Top Line).
• Maximizes Supplier Relationships: Create a preferred customer relationship with strategic suppliers.
• Develop strategic suppliers to sustain growth.
• Drive improvement projects with strategic suppliers impacting P&L and Top Line contribution.
• Creates value and innovates: Capture innovation opportunities form internal & external sources.
• Lead strategic projects. Manage financial cost and impact. Get the buy-in, communicate with steering committee mode to the sponsors, stakeholders. Be empowered to take key decisions or to escalate to stakeholders.
• Negotiates with integrity: Coach and challenge teams in terms of negotiation strategy, use innovative negotiation levers. Unlock stalemate situation.
• Operates according to internal control principles and legal rules: Develop a competitive advantage (exclusivity, group strategy, innovation, CSR).
• Negotiate Global, high stake contracts. Negotiate intellectual property, licensing, exclusivity agreements for innovation.
• Evaluates and manage risks: Define and implement risk management policy. Implement advanced/breakthrough methodologies or tools to secure risk. Manage regulatory risks.
• Manages Performance and efficiency: Be accountable for purchasing performance. Formulate functional improvements for processes and tools. Formulate recommendations based of Supplier P&L analysis or L'Oréal/Brand P&L.
• Challenge Financial and logistics managers when purchasing is impacted by other functions. Ensure data quality.
• Supports and manages stakeholders’ relationships: Communicate / manage projects /share suppliers’ information with stakeholders, influence stakeholders. Drive and grow Purchasing Share of Voice among stakeholders.
• B-BBEE Awareness and Compliance.
• Manage the LOREALs BBBEE purchasing strategy.
• Manage the collation of all suppliers BBBEE certificates.
• Monitor performance of BBBEE suppliers in line with the overall LOREAL’s strategy – remove barriers of entry and promote acceptable criteria of performance standards of suppliers.
• Ensure the creation of BBBEE awareness in the work performed by purchasing.
• Supplier Management.
• Generate and implement a pipeline of ongoing indirect procurement savings projects.
• Ensure that top 80% verndor spend is managed by purchasing.
• Run RFQ’s and RFP’s inline with group norms using LOREALS online platform tool.
• Find and on-board approved, reliable and competitive suppliers for goods and services.
• Negotiate supplier agreements ensuring that top 80% vendor spend is covered with an approved supplier agreement.
• Ensure that all supplier contracts are compliant, up to date and saved on the MYCONTRCT (LOREAL Contract Platform).
• Manage and maintain the supplier master data Manage suppliers to contractual obligations as required and with regular intervals.
• Reporting and Information management.
• Analysis and report on indirect procurement spend.
• Ensure adherence to all Group reporting requirements.
• Ensure high standard of reporting and that reporting deadlines are met.
• Maintain complete and accurate supplier information on the various purchasing platforms (TEAMS, MYSOURCING and MYMARKET).
• SAP and MYMARKET.
• Manage SAP vendor master data ensuring that all data accurate and up to date.
• Arrange for all new catalogues and suppliers to be promptly loaded on the MYMARKET SYSTEM.
• Ensure that all vendor categorisation and information is maintained and updated with the latest purchasing strategies.
• Fleet Management.
• Manage the LOREAL Fleet vehicles.
• Fleet Reporting (Fines, Over Utalization).
• Ensure that Maintenance is done.

PROFESSIONAL & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

NURTURES THE PIONEERING SPIRIT

• Maximises Suppliers relationship
• Creates value and innovates
• Anticipates business activity and acts proactively (new suppliers)

IS CONSUMER ORIENTED

• Analyses business needs and challenges demand
• Supports and manages stakeholders’ relationship

CONTROLS RISKS AND OPERATES RESPONSIBILY

• Operates according to internal control principles and legal rules (contracts)
• Supports sustainable Purchasing (solidarity sourcing, Buy & care and SBWA)
• Evaluates and manages risks

“MAKE IT HAPPEN” WITH OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE AND AGILITY

• Manages performance and efficiency (process, tools)
• Optimises costs
• Negotiates with integrity
• Defines purchasing strategy (market knowledge, costs models)

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, medical condition or disability. We adhere to all local Labour Relations legislation.

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