ZBB Lead at International Breweries

The key purpose of this role to support the development and execution of the Indirect Procurement Sourcing Strategy by ensuring effective spend control, driving negotiation strategies, ensuring compliance, and optimizing supplier performance. This includes deep-diving into the ZBB Spend portfolio, analyzing market dynamics, tracking benefits, mitigating risks, and fostering collaboration with internal stakeholders and suppliers to implement sourcing strategies and ensure operational excellence.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support Indirect Procurement Sourcing Strategy Development
• Understand, deep dive and keep very strong control on the 5 Packs ZBB Spend portfolio ensuring actual spend is consistently in alignment with budget
• Develop, lead and drive negotiation strategies for the category
• Identify and track benefits (monetary and non-monetary), mitigate the risks and ensure compliance governance is in place
• Collate all necessary zone analytics related to the category
• Analyze spend and user specific requirements
• Conduct market research to assess zone dynamics related to the category
• Support Sourcing Strategy Execution
• Ensure readiness across both zone and country for strategy execution
• Escalate where necessary supplier performance issues
• Support Collaborative Optimization activities where applicable
• Handle second level escalations with suppliers/internal stakeholders to resolve performance issues
• Collaborate with supplier and internal stakeholders to ensure smooth implementation of Category managers sourcing outputs / agreements
• Ensure suppliers are correctly enabled through Regional Procurement Shared Services (RPSS)
• Ensure contractual terms & conditions are effectively “operationalized” within business
• Manage the relationship and drive collaboration with all stakeholders at functional, regional and global level.

Key attributes and competencies:

• Ensures that processes follow established compliance requirements
• Collaborate with supplier and internal stakeholders to ensure smooth implementation of sourcing strategy outputs / agreements
• Good knowledge, understanding and use of Microsoft Office tools
• Good analytics skills
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Sound knowledge of procurement systems like Ariba and use of eRFX and eAuction
• Knowledge of SAP an advantage
• Good presentation skills and experience of facilitating workshops/brainstorm sessions
• Being highly adaptable to frequent and rapid changes in workflow and project execution and willing to take on new challenges
• Capacity to work flexibly, proactively and unsupervised both individually and within a global team
• Ability to comfortably liaise across functions and at a senior level
• Willingness to learn and develop both the role and personally
• Proven leadership qualities and ability to inspire action and deliver high quality results

Minimum Requirements

Education:

• Min. of B.Sc./HND in any related discipline.

Experience:

• Relevant Tertiary Qualification
• 5 years+ procurement experience managing categories (Indirect Spend preferable)
• Regional or Global category management experience
• Sound knowledge and understanding of procurement strategic sourcing methodology