Job Title: Country Head of Procurement
Organisation: Nile Breweries Limited
Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda
About Eskom:
Nile Breweries Limited, a leading beverage company in Uganda, a subsidiary of SAB- Miller, and also recognized as three times Best Employer – the second largest brewing group in the world.
Job Summary: The incumbent will mainly steer and coordinate the local Procurement function including accountability for local target setting in alignment with global and regional SABMiller Procurement goals, policies, strategies and processes.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Oversee and develop the local Procurement Organisation and drive continuous improvement of operations
- Steer team members in accordance with the SABMiller management principles to support the organisation’s overall leadership focus on performance and talent management, values, management and self-management practices
- Manage direct reports including target setting, performance review, career and training development
- Assess impact of locally changing requirements, including legislation and policies
- Escalate country specific procurement requirements on a Regional level including changes of local legislations and policies
- Actively support roll-out of Global and Regional Procurement development initiatives within the country
- Actively support strong and robust procurement infrastructure aimed at optimising transactional purchasing activities, aligned with Regional and Global infrastructure
- Promoting sustainable development initiatives throughout Procurement
- Develop and monitor the Procurement budget in the country in alignment with the Regional Head of Procurement; overseeing financial well-being thereof by analysing cost effectiveness and directing cost control activities; preparing, submitting and justifying budget enhancement requests and profit forecast; lead work on mitigation plans when/if purchase price variance against budget occur
- Support the local business customer in setting up their plans, budgets and strategies
- Ensure execution of the regional yearly action plan to improve the Procurement Function at country level, and monitor and control savings plan in the country
- Actively coordinate resource allocation to support Global / Regional initiatives on a country level
- Lead and support strategic sourcing activities within the specific country
- Act as a change agent in leading implementation of new global procurement initiatives
- Coordinate contract implementation of major contracts with Procurement Specialists and users
- Follow-up on contract compliance; define and take corrective actions to improve contract compliance, supported by the Regional Procurement Centre Lead
- In line with defined procurement strategy, support the classification and categorisation of suppliers, including definition of supplier evaluation and audit policies
- Continuously track supplier performance (utilising data / reports provided by the Sourcing Analyst)
- Lead or support supplier development activities such as setting up cross functional review meetings with suppliers in order to improve performance and further reduce cost in alignment with the Regional and Global Category team
- Initiate and conduct supplier performance review meetings to define improvement plans and follow-up on execution (as part of on-going operation; not supplier accreditation / technical audit)identify potential contract improvement opportunities and re-negotiations, in alignment with Regional and Global Procurement
- Representing the Procurement function at the local governance forums
- Manage relationship with Regional Procurement Centre Lead, review Procurement Centre performance, KPIs and SLAs and agree on joint improvement actions
- Developing and maintaining effective strategic relationships with key internal customers and stakeholders
- Manage internal customers’ feedback on procurement organisation & supplier performance
- Reinforce and promote Requisition best practices to ensure end users are following proper buying channel guidance
- Within the framework of the cross functional sourcing and supplier development teams, closely develop and manage the relationship with internal customers
- Proactively organise sessions with internal customers to identify further TCO/ TVO reduction opportunities, in alignment with Regional and Global Category Teams
- Improve and reinforce procurement’s profile and recognition within the internal customer community
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The candidate should preferably hold a Master’s Degree from an accredited University in Procurement or a related field with a demonstrated experience of at least five years in a similar job Or a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited University in Procurement and Logistics or a Bachelor’s degree in other relevant disciplines like Engineering and/or Commerce with a demonstrated experience of at least 7 years in a similar job
- A recognised professional qualification in procurement will be an added advantage
- Membership of professional supply chain and/or procurement bodies would be advantageous
- Ability to understand extended supply chain requirements from top to bottom
- Operational excellence and improvement bias
- Good communicator across all levels within and external to the organisation with personal gravitas and credibility
- Customer focused mind-set and approach
- Demonstrable problem solving skills with an ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
- Excellent self-management practices
- Highly Proactive, energetic and committed
- Flexible, adaptable and pragmatic
- High tolerance for stress and managing the operational realities of the business
How to Apply:
All candidates that have relevant experience, know that they meet the above criteria and have what it takes to excel in the above position, should please submit their updated CVs, which should include details of email address, present position, current remuneration, Certificates/testimonials and address of three (3) Referees plus telephone contact to the undersigned. (Please email your application and CV to [email protected] and lets save the environment.)
Human Resources Business Partner -Technical,
Nile Breweries Ltd.,
P.O Box 762, Jinja/Uganda.
Deadline: 20th October, 2014
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