3 weeks ago
Job title : Procurement Director – Packaging – Cape Town HQ
Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town
Deadline : October 30, 2024
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Responsibilities
What we’re looking for:
- Leads the sourcing of Packaging categories, with a spend of $160MM, for all PepsiCo divisions in South Africa (Foods, Beverages, Snacks, Grains & Bakeries). Includes the development and execution of advantaged sourcing strategies, supplier selection, negotiations, as well as supplier and contract management. Primary liaison between Market Leads, BUs, Finance, R&D, Marketing, and Legal for procurement of packaging categories.
- Delivers maximum value across the entire procurement value chain through understanding and analysis of PepsiCo needs (global & locally relevant).
- Understands price and cost structure and their associated drivers. Optimises Total Cost of Ownership through leveraging internal & external drivers.
- Assesses the industry, political, economic & agricultural forces at play in order to build advantageous sourcing strategies for PepsiCo.
- Develops, formalizes & sells to internal stakeholders breakthrough procurement strategies that meet / anticipate Business requirements as well as changes of supply markets and related risks.
- Stays informed of industry developments, capabilities and market trends.
- Maintains a solid working knowledge of all laws, duties, taxes and regulations affecting purchase and delivery of assigned commodities.
- Evaluates supplier offers based on balanced evaluation criteria, i,e, cost, quality, service, innovation, sustainability.
- Leads negotiations with large suppliers with favoarbale outcomes, bring positive impact beyond pricing, in a complex business environment in packaging space.
- Develops & maintains balanced supplier evaluation score cards based on quality, cost, service, innovation, sustainability.
- Responsible for developing price standards for assigned components. Accountable on the same components for forecasting and analysing the Purchase Price Variance, Year over Year and performance versus market/competition.
- Develops effective communications with operating divisions and departments on commitments, costs, timing and performance of suppliers in regard to Packaging categories.
- Ensures that all suppliers comply with PepsiCo’s Supplier Code of Conduct and are approved in accordance with PepsiCo’s global standards and processes.
- Includes domestic and international travel for Business reviews and supplier meetings/audits.
Qualifications
What will qualify you for the role:
- Relevant tertiary qualification
- Seasoned procurement professional with 10+ years of relevant work experience
- Management experience is advantageous
- Analytical thinking: Ability to quickly analyse data and transform it into meaningful insights.
- Strategic thinking: Ability to translate strategies into plans that can be effectively executed.
- Communication skills: Communicates effectively to win support. Proactively shares information, best practice and ideas with others throughout PepsiCo.
- People Management skills: Encourages and coaches’ people to build their skills. Fosters a positive and inclusive work environment where people feel respected & valued for their contributions.
- Functional expertise: Very good knowledge of the blending value chain as well as the constituent juice market (supplier & competitor landscape, market fundamentals, agricultural forces, etc).
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