Responsibilities

What we’re looking for:

Responsible for leading the fruit juice concentrates, purees and fresh fruit categories within the SA Procurement Ingredients portfolio. A big focus on cost and supply security risk management, supplier relationship management and innovation, measuring and improving supplier service performance, BBB-EE, sustainability, and achieving annual plans and delivering productivity ambition for the area of responsibility.

• Responsible for supplier negotiation & relationship management
• Negotiates at highest scale, executing negotiation strategy
• Ensures implementation of best-in-class sourcing methods and tools
• Leads the category by tracking, monitoring and reporting of supplier markets and performance for the category during the duration of contracts
• Leads the category by identifying alternate supplier markets, supply origin diversification and localisation opportunities
• Leads the category by implementing Pep+ initiatives (climate ambition, land use change, regenerative agriculture), monitoring and reporting of supplier sustainability programmes
• Explains the complex internal or external (supply and demand complex, macro or geo-political tensions) business challenge and communicates early and clearly
• Anticipates potential supply and service risk, ideates risk mitigation and recommends execution plan
• Stakeholder communication and influence is essential
• BU Lead role on regular basis influencing stakeholders up to LT level
• Works closely with sector Procurement Center of Excellence (COE) Category and Market Supply Organization (MSO) Leads and leads the execution of plans
• Role is responsible for supporting other countries
• Strong cross-functional collaborator
• Great communication and presentation skills
• Proficiency in SAP, Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

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