Senior Procurement Manager

Title: Senior Procurement Manager, Goods and Services

Location:

remote type

Hybrid Remote

locations

Westville, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa

time type

Full time

Job Description:

CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world's biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.

What does that mean for you? You'll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You'll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You'll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Develop and execute sustainable category sourcing strategies for the region/function that align with global and local procurement priorities.
• Act as a champion for strategic sourcing, ensuring that procurement initiatives deliver long-term value and meet organizational needs.
• Lead category management for key spend areas, applying data-driven insights, market intelligence, and advanced procurement techniques to maximize value and minimize risk. Ensure category strategies consider external market factors and emerging trends that could impact business objectives.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with senior business stakeholders, ensuring procurement is involved early in the sourcing process. Leverage procurement's expertise to align sourcing initiatives with business needs, offering strategic advice that enhances procurement's role within the organization.
• Lead complex negotiations with suppliers to secure favorable terms and manage pricing strategies. Ensure the implementation of new pricing agreements, manage supplier contracts, and conduct ongoing reviews to ensure compliance with contractual terms.
• Oversee supplier performance management across key categories, ensuring suppliers consistently meet performance, quality, and cost requirements.
• Ensure all procurement activities adhere to regulatory requirements, internal policies, and ethical standards. Develop strategies to minimize supply chain risk, including mitigating supplier risk, financial exposure, and potential disruptions.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for the procurement function, ensuring alignment with annual targets. Provide regular updates on procurement performance, cost savings, supplier performance, and compliance metrics to senior leadership.

Position Purpose

The role is responsible for the effective development and delivery of Procurement activity as defined by the major accountabilities.

Procurement is committed to deliver a significant contribution towards Brambles strategic priorities, enabling the markets to win through Procurement using breakthrough category strategies, sourcing execution and effective management of the supply base, to support operating margin improvement and competitive advantage.

Procurement categories tend to be complex with varying stakeholder needs, significant external spend and key relationships up to and including executive level. The primary accountability for this role is to drive value through ensuring the commercial elements of spend in designated categories are executed brilliantly with our vendors. This role will lead sourcing programs in designated categories across the AMET region with senior stakeholders and will apply best practice category management techniques to support the maximisation of value, utilising a total cost approach.

The role will be responsible for recommending and implementing activities associated with risk management and sustainability as defined by regional and global strategies.

Procurement is also responsible for supplier management from identified sources to assure quality of delivery and performance, creating improvement plans where required and fostering a continuous improvement culture, whilst adhering to our global decarbonisation goals

Key Accountabilities

• Delivery of all annual projects and targets in line with agreed strategies

• Monitoring and reporting on savings vs CAPEX plans.

• Effective delivery of project plans for all savings initiatives

• Directly manage chosen key strategic categories as named above

• Develop, lead and coach direct report(s) across the AMET region

• Contribute to business priorities using recognised procurement category management methodologies and models.

• Build effective relationships with all relevant Business Stakeholders to ensure Procurement is leveraged early in the process for required goods & services.

• Ensure Contract Management is undertaken inline with the global procurement policy, mitigating commercial risk in the AMET Region.

• Ensure compliance with the Global Procurement Policy, leveraging the Global team's knowledge and resource.

• Ensure Supplier Performance & Relationship Management processes are undertaken as required for categories (as named above) to improve the performance of key suppliers and to ensure business plans are created with strategic suppliers.

• Support continued implementation of Preferred Supplier Program across AMET

• Effective adoption of global procurement systems and processes

Key Requirements

• Degree in related field - supply chain, business, engineering or science
• Minimum 10+ years in procurement
• CIPS
• Procurement management in a manufacturing or FMCG environment
• Stakeholder satisfaction
• Supplier management and improvement programs
• Implementation and change management of national contracts and programs
• Management and use of Procurement systems

Skills and Knowledge

• Professional procurement expertise based on depth of experience and commercial acumen
• Leading and coaching people
• Commercial negotiation
• Experience with legal contracting
• Proven project management and change management experience
• Ability to challenge, influence and work with cross functional teams

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Remote Type

Hybrid Remote

Skills to succeed in the role

Active Learning, Adaptability, Category Strategy, Contract Management, Cost Management, Cross-Functional Work, Curiosity, Digital Literacy, Emotional Intelligence, Empathy, Initiative, Market Analysis, Problem Solving, Procurement Strategies, Procurement Systems, Responsible Sourcing, Risk Management, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Management, Supplier Performance Management (PM)

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.