Job Title: Procurement Manager
Grade: PE06
Purpose of the role:
Reporting to the CFO, the role exists in order to lead the company’s procurement process from selecting suppliers, ensuring stock optimisation, and guiding the company on sourcing and purchasing processes
The successful candidate will have a strong track record of establishing, implementing and evaluating effective procurement standards, managing spend, delivering earned value, ensuring quality control and adherence to the company’s procurement rules
Key Performance Areas:
- Make the following leadership contribution:
- Provide Means:
- Ensure that employees have the information, clarity & feedback they need in order to understand what’s expected of them, and how their roles contribute to expected results
- Ensure that employees have the tools and resources they need to do their jobs
- Ensure that procurement processes enable employees to make the contribution required of them
- Enable Ability:
- Ensure that the team has the capability (qualifications and experience) required to do their job
- Develop the team’s understanding of the business and how it is performing
- Coach the team in terms of how to do their jobs and why the job needs to be done
- Facilitate team growth though regular reviews and deliberate changes in employee accountability
- Enable Accountability:
- Conduct regular contribution reviews and feedback at an individual level
- Hold team appropriately accountable, applying generosity and courage as appropriate
- Make the following direct contribution:
- Formulate procurement strategy in alignment with company goals, and drive its implementation
- Identify procurement risks which may impact the business and implement mitigations to reduce/eliminate them as appropriate
- Diagnose existing constraints and problems and establish solutions to address them
- Lead the company’s preferential procurement, supplier and enterprise development initiatives to facilitate the company’s BEE objectives
- Establish and manage the procurement budget
- Lead pricing and payment terms discussions with suppliers, in collaboration with relevant internal stakeholders
- Establish and maintain governance and controls aimed at optimising supplier management, purchasing, and stock management activities
- Oversee the company’s tender processes
- Initiate and implement procurement projects as necessary
- Liaise with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment at all times
- Continuously evaluate procurement processes and performance, and implement improvements
- Management reporting
Capabilities & Attributes:
- Integrity
- Strong foundational procurement skills
- Strong negotiator
- Commercial acumen
- Quality and results oriented
- Team Leadership
- Good communicator
- Organised self- starter
- Detail orientation
- Planning and prioritising
- Computer literate
Qualifications & Experience:
- B degree or equivalent
- Supply Chain Management/Procurement certification advantageous
- At least 8 years procurement experience
- At least 3 years’ experience leading procurement teams with a proven track record of delivering leadership outcomes
- Experience in manufacturing/heavy industry
Additional Information:
- Consideration will be given to Isanti’s EE goals
- Appointment is subject to qualifications and integrity checks
- If you don’t hear from us a month after the closing date, please assume your application was unsuccessful
To Apply:
Please submit applications: https://isantiglass.com/careers/
Closing Date: 20 December 2024