Senior Procurement Manager at PZ Cussons

Department Strategic Objectives

• To source commodities and raw materials required by the business and ensure PZ Cussons obtains the most favourable terms of supply, quality, service, cost and innovation.
• Ensuring strict adherence to company’s Procurement policies, guidelines and principles by stakeholders with a view to meeting Audit Standards

Job Purpose

• To provide value driven procurement support to support the achievement of business cost and value propositions
• To work with stakeholders in building and managing supplier relationships.
• Ensure a clear understanding of supplier portfolio, capabilities and reliability to support operations.
• To work closely with other supply chain functions in establishing continuous supplier quality improvement.

Key Accountabilities

• Contribute and manage the standard costing process and cost projection for assigned portfolio; providing all standard cost data to the Finance function as required for the budgeting process.
• Develop and Execute sourcing strategies for assigned portfolio to deliver business benefits or internal customers aligned to Cost, Innovation, quality and service.
• Commercial negotiation to deliver minimum variance to Raw Material budget/standard cost.
• Identify sustainable and long term savings opportunities through the strategy creation process, identifying and exploring all potential value levers.
• Lead, develop and manage the Raw Material supply base towards building effective strategic relationships with key suppliers
• Lead and manage the achievement of Sustainability G4B policies (Palm Promise, REACH, Localisation etc) as applicable in the assigned portfolio.
• Engaging with and understanding the business requirements of internal customers and stakeholders

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or HND) in Business, Finance, Materials Management or related fields (preferably in engineering). MBA/ CIPS will be an added advantage.

Technical/Professional Experience

• Able to communicate in English, speaking, reading and writing.
• IT skills, MS Excel, PowerPoint, SAP etc.
• Diagnosis skills and Problem-solving techniques / tools
• Knowledge in Project Management
• Previous experience in procurement function preferred