Junior Category Leader /Junior Supply Chain Manager

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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