Category Lead (Port Elizabeth) at Aspen Pharma Group

Job purpose

• Lead supplier development, supplier negotiations, RFQs, and CMO category strategy for major suppliers.
• Identification of continuous improvement opportunities.

Responsibilities

Supplier management

• Monitor quality standards and identify performance failures.
• Conduct supplier audits and report on supplier performance.
• Manage supplier communications and documents and process flow, including RFIs, RFP, RFQ, and RFB’s
• Resolve supplier issues; maintain working relationships with key suppliers.
• Set up new vendors and coordinate with legal to support new contracts; maintain/ update existing contracts.
• Identify new suppliers and products in the marketplace.
• Vet potential suppliers’ capabilities (delivery, quality, services)
• Review insourcing and outsourcing opportunities.
• Negotiate with suppliers to carry stock for fast moving items.
• Assist in the drafting of specifications as required and provide advice and guidance to customers on procurement processes.
• Review and approve price variances (Order vs Invoice Prices)
• BBBEE and procurement administration

Risk Management

• Maintain and report on adherence to internal and external compliance requirements.
• Actively reduce third-party risk exposure
• Carry out risk management processes within CMO category.

Report & record keeping

• Maintain repository of procurement-related knowledge
• Maintain complete, compliant documentation of purchasing activities.
• Maintain standards and update SOPs for documentation and filing requirements.

Budgeting

• Manage and optimize use of Category budget.
• Provide input into required changes in resources to enable achievement of objectives
• Monitor, track and report on expenditure against budget. 

Planning & coordination

• Optimize processes, identify gaps in policies, procedures and legislation, and propose changes or improvements to management
• Provide technical advice to internal stakeholders.

Requirements

Background/experience

• 6 years' relevant experience
• Experience in a manufacturing procurement environment, and preferably with significant experience in a CMO environment.
• National Diploma in relevant field (Procurement, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Finance), or a related discipline

Specific job skills

• Computer literacy

Competencies

• Customer Awareness
• Meeting Deadlines
• Making Decisions
• Planning and Organizing
• Interrogating Information