SUMMARY:
Our client in the Business Consultant industry is currently looking to employ a Junior Category Leader /Junior Supply Chain Manager based in Port Elizabeth.
A wonderful career opportunity awaits you!
POSITION INFO:
Requirements:
- At least three years’ procurement experience in a major company and/or public sector business.
- Experience in category management, moving successfully and quickly between direct and indirect product and service categories.
- A successful history of interacting with senior clients and stakeholders.
- Strong history of savings delivery.
- Any successful candidate must be able to develop within the company, broadening their category experience.
- Keen commercial business sense.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Good organizational and time-management skills.
- Positive and initiative-taking attitude, confident in taking personal initiative.
- Good negotiation skills and natural persuasion.
- Understanding of supply chain and procurement practices.
- Enjoyment of networking and meeting new people.
- Ability to develop a robust client pipeline.
Responsibilities and expectations but not limited to:- Interact with key stakeholders and analyse data to create category management approaches that deliver against both client and company’s needs and expectations.
- Advise and agree with clients on the procurement strategy for high-spend categories.
- Deliver measurable savings through direct category management, including undertaking tenders, negotiations, and auctions on behalf of clients.
- Provide the enquiry, insight and creative thought needed to deliver a step change in supply chain performance.
- Influence stakeholders (clients and suppliers) to secure agreement to proposed solutions.
- Use of leading-edge tools, processes, and creative thinking to design solutions which deliver rapid cost savings and improvements in performance.
- Sourcing suppliers from SA and Worldwide to meet clients’ needs.
- Deliver projects within agreed timescales.
- Consistently be an ambassador for the Company’s brand.
Other Duties:- Take time out to complete training or learn from other team members to deliver your Personal Development Plan.
- Support and balance non-fee-earning in-house projects with the delivery of commercially critical projects.
- Identify contacts or leads within existing or target organisations.
- Take time to support and develop other team members.
Please note should you not receive a response within two weeks of applying you may assume that your application was unsuccessful.
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