Our client is a global multinational Food & Beverage company, worldwide leader in most of its category portfolio. With global or local specific brands and products, the core focus is to meet the diverse needs and preferences of consumers all over the world.
Operating in Africa for more than 80 years, the Company has 5 markets within, the Equatorial African Region being amongst them. The regional operations are co-ordinated from Nairobi, Kenya to offer shared service across countries in Central, East, part of Southern Africa including the Island markets and Horn of Africa.
With this regional expertise, the Company aims at enhancing the business potential of this region, which is seen as an important source of future growth, and bring it up to the level of performance that the Company experiences in other regions of Africa and the world.
By reinforcing business and product categories focus, making operations more efficient, developing cross fertilization or enhancing peoples’ knowledge transfer and empowerment, this shared service expertise is expected to accelerate growth and meet the company’s high ambition for the Region.
Our client continues to be viewed as one of the leading global companies in Corporate Social Responsibility, particularly in the developing world. Being a committed leader in environmental performance, they ensure that natural resources are preserved and that waste management enjoys much attention in all operations worldwide. The company is an equal-opportunity employer with robust talent management policies, and systems. They value and reward individual and team contributions to business results.
Job Summary
Reporting to the Regional Procurement Manager, the Manager will be responsible for managing Procurement centers and supply quality products to the Equatorial African Region through direct procurement.
Responsibilities
- Define, propose and monitor the implementation of plans and objectives in line with departmental strategy for both procurement and commodities advisory.
- Coach and manage buyers in direct procurement buying stations as well as assistants.
- Propose and control the operational budget of the assigned area.
- Propose and monitor appropriate indicators to control and measure team/area's performance.
- Demonstrate and promote the company's values and integrate them within the team/area's way of working.
- Take ownership of process and procedures within the sourcing area ensuring processes and procedures are available and communicated to the team and other relevant parties.
- Monitor compliance to defined process and procedures and update existing documents.
- Set up and monitor KPI reports on the various functions performed by the Commodities sourcing Team. Negotiate terms and conditions for the categories (e.g prices, terms & conditions, delivery terms) within the scope of objectives set by Regional Purchasing
- Communicate reports to relevant parties and continuously seek improvements for existing reports and proactive gather new reporting requirements
- Ensure all requirements, reception and payments for products bought from exporters are loaded onto the system.
- Responsible for the selection and training of personnel in the centres
- Maintain good relationship with suppliers (fee back on price, quality, fair treatment in centres, timing of analysis etc). Follow up the payments of suppliers
- Understand the business requirements of each operating market and inform the SBUs about different issues concerning quality of products.
- Work within the guidelines of EAR Purchasing Guidelines, Principles, Management and the Corporate Business Principles.
- Ensure clear communication with all concerned internally & externally i.e. Factory, EAR Technical, EAR transport, Marketing, Suppliers and others.
- Provide activity reports and participate to monthly commodities meeting
- Strong achievements focus i.e. high energy levels and commitment to end results.
- Self-starter with lots of initiative and patience
- Team building, including experience in staff management
- Strong knowledge of competitors’ environment including products and suppliers.
- Superior communication and interpersonal skills,
- Well-developed computer skills and knowledge of procurement tools.
- Strong decision-making and judgment skills (ability to analyse data and make logical, pragmatic and sensitive decisions).
How to apply:
Send your application including a cover letter indicating your desire to work with our client; a detailed CV highlighting relevant experience, details of current and expected salary, a daytime phone contact, email address, and the names of three professional referees by close of business Friday 29th October 2010.
Adept Systems
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS
P O Box 6416, Nairobi, GPO 00100
Email: recruit@adeptsystems.co.ke
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