Description
Job Advert Summary:
Rand Water is looking for a Sourcing Manager that will be responsible for analyzing the assigned category spend, developing key sourcing strategies, leading long term supplier negotiations and leading/executing key projects to meet the sourcing and performance goals.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or Honors in Supply Chain, Business Administration or Engineering. Certified purchasing accreditation is a plus.
- 7+ years’ work experience.
Primary Duties:
- Manages the sourcing deals, contracts, delivery and quality for a complete procurement cycle, ensuring the commercial and cost saving benefits are realized and ensuring on time delivery with the suppliers.
- Ensures the complete follow through of project supports from managing the product/supplier sourcing to execution to supplier delivery and quality.
- Reviews and negotiates supply contracts, subcontractor agreements, and other terms and conditions.
- Negotiates with vendors/contractors to obtain maximum benefit from contracts.
- Lead technical evaluations committee and compiling technical reports.
- Preparing and issuing letter of awards.
- Recommends and justifies strategic sourcing initiatives and e-procurement supplier enablement initiatives by using data mining tools to conduct spend analysis, prepare supporting reports/spreadsheets, comparisons.
- Assists in the development of internal policies and tools necessary to implement strategic sourcing initiatives and assists in prioritizing strategic sourcing initiatives.
- Participates in all Enterprise Development initiatives of the organisation in order to better enable inclusion and participation of emerging and developing enterprises in strategic sourcing initiatives of the organisation.
Knowledge:
- Great command of MS Office and applicable purchasing software.
- Knowledge and experience in SAP.
Skills:
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Complex problem solving skills.
- Sound critical thinking skills.
- Possesses sound judgement & decision making skills.
- Strong negotiation and persuasion skills.
- Skilled in generating savings and margin expansion.
- Skilled in managing and tracking multiple projects concurrently.
- Skilled in evaluating and comparing product specifications contract details and cost elements of a bid proposal.
- Well-developed written and verbal communication, listening and presentation skills.
Attitude:
- Effective communication with different stakeholder types
- Collaboration
- Negotiation and Influencing
- Problem solving and decision making
- Managing multiple projects