Three Green Apples Consulting Limited is a consulting practice providing transformational human resource management services Our client, a global manufacturing company, is looking to hire a Sourcing Manager .
Job Purpose: The Sourcing Manager will be responsible for supporting the procurement team in market research/ intelligence, analysis and recommendations on sustainability of the suppliers.
Reporting to the Supply Chain Director, they will:
- Assure availability for category with the right quality, service, cost, risk and growth support.
- Ensure effective Risk Management and governance of all suppliers and service
- Give direction and guidance to buyers for all sourcing
- Build key relationship for value with key suppliers with the category
- Focus on innovation and deliver innovative ideas
- Deliver targeted savings
Key Responsibilities:
- Agree and manage a plan for market & competitor intelligence to support the organisation’s decision making.
- Rigorously evaluate supplier market trends and forecasts, identifying and highlighting issues, threats and opportunities for strategic materials including raw materials.
- Ensure that appropriate outputs are communicated effectively to key stakeholders across the business and enable the organisation to derive maximum benefit from this investment.
- Be the internal expert on market and competitor intelligence techniques and sources to ensure the most appropriate and effective methods are used.
- Review and combine insights from different sources, conferring with colleagues, to provide joined up insight and build the bigger picture to guide business decisions.
- Review all sources of insight (both internal and external) summarising as appropriate, to create a body of knowledge to provide context and support for decision making.
- Create reference documents to make the insight accessible to others in the organisation.
- Initiate/ Recommend synergies with partners in the supply chain to enable the organisation to derive maximum benefit
Requirements
The incumbent must possess the following minimum qualifications and competencies:
- Bachelor’s Degree in business studies/management or a related field. Having a Masters degree will be an added advantage.
- Have progressive CIPS qualifications.
- Have at least 5 years’ experience in procurement/sourcing in a global FMCG/Manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of purchasing regulations, laws and procedures.
- Strong familiarity and technical competence with purchase management software and/or automated procurement systems, such as SAP, JDE etc.
- Be analytical and able to leverage from Supplier market trends.
- Able to timely manage and give solutions to enable the activities, projects and requirements of other departments and functions.
- Have demonstrable benchmarking techniques.
- General knowledge of the FMCG industry, accounting, finance, marketing, and logistics.
- Excellent contract management skills are essential.
- Effective bartering and negotiation skills.
- Be able to conform to shifting priorities in spending strategies, product demands and purchasing timelines through analytical capabilities.
- Superb budgeting, inventory, and cost-management skills.
- Be pro-active with a high level of personal drive and enthusiasm and a personal commitment to excellence.
Remuneration: The salary for this position is competitive and negotiable dependent on experience and demonstrable contribution. If you are interested in the position and have the skills we are looking for, we would like to hear from you.
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