Africa Procurement Lead for our FMCG Client .

Their is one good job opportunity for Africa Procurement Lead with our FMCG client based in Dar Es Salaam , Tanzania .

JOB TITLE : Africa Procurement Lead

REPORTING TO : General Manager – Africa

Job Summary :

Responsibilities will include the formulation, development, execution of policies and procedures to drive a consistent approach towards sourcing, purchasing and tendering activity within the business.

As Africa Procurement Lead, you will work in close partnership with Country Operations and Technical teams in formulation of best practices to help reduce cost, mitigate risk and improve efficiency of procurement.

The role's focus will be on different countries in Africa.

Execution and decision making will be with Country General Managers & Procurement teams as well as regional procurement teams in Asia and Europe.

The Responsibilities:

 Review and suggest cost savings and optimization initiatives

 Key decision maker on large value purchases. Will consolidate group order for better negotiation and pricing.

 Gathering of market intelligence and information required by the supply management team .

 Prepare presentations to update all relevant departments on strategy and agency

 Oversee all RFI's, RFQ's and RFP's within the company and ensure all details required are in within the guideline of the company's compliance framework

 Provide recommendation on streamlining and improvement of procurement process

 Manage the supplier's performance by reviewing their performance on a quarterly basis

 Working closely with Ops division to identify new suppliers to work with and to gather feedback of supplier's performance.

 Tracking and managing of compliance to local, regional and global contracts

 Develop supply chain effectiveness metrics and report regularly on supply chain performance, utilizing the metrics .

The Requirements:

 Possess a minimum 15 years of business experience including 5 years in a similar role within a manufacturing company.

 Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering or Business. Master’s Degree is preferred

 Experienced in spearheading projects or supplier transition with large matrix collaboration across the organization

 Experienced in the implementation of end to end procurement strategy and processes.

Possess traits the likes of being meticulous, analytical, seamless collaborator, convincing negotiator, high emotional quotient in managing various stakeholder's expectation

 Ability to work in a matrix organisation and influence people for appropriate direction

 Strong in communication and stakeholder management

 Experience in a Food FMCG or similar industry.

 A sense of urgency, high energy, and self-motivated

 SAP and Ariba experience

 Experience working across multiple geographies.