Strategic Sourcing Consultant: Operations

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JOB DESCRIPTION

• Define own work plan and deliverables, with guidance from the Category Lead.
• Source operations-related goods and services in adherence to the company’s Procurement Policy and relevant legislation, including the Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment Act 53 of 2003.
• Source operations-related goods and services, including but not limited to, market research, the preparation of requests for tender/proposal/quotation/information, the evaluation of bids, commercial negotiations, recommendations for supplier awarding, as well as the preparation and presentation of submissions to relevant committees.
• Manage the entire value chain of requisitioning, including the contracting cycle.
• Collate and analyse spend data for the execution of operations category management initiatives and the provision of management information.
• Keep abreast of developments in procurement to ensure the company applies best practices.
• Keep abreast of technological advancements and their effect on the costs of the goods and services to be procured.
• Perform spend analyses and formulate category strategies that will lead to benefits (cost reduction or cost avoidance) without causing supply risks.
• Ensure that the contracts between the company and suppliers are commercially sound.

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in commerce or supply chain management, or an equivalent qualification; and
• A minimum of five to eight years’ experience in a procurement or supply chain management environment, of which two to three of those years are related to strategic/complex sourcing.

• Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply certification.