Procurement Officer Global Grade 09 at Barloworld Equipment

Key Outputs

• Understand category strategies and sourcing plans to support their regional execution
• Ensure a full understanding of regional buying needs
• Identify future supply and/or demand issues to ensure a proactive and effective response
• Provide intelligence on potential or existing issues
• Check accuracy of PR data
• Where contracts are not in place, select suppliers by getting quotations or executing local tender process (with support from Senior Procurement Officers)
• Raise POs to selected suppliers
• Track the orders and report on the order status
• Follow up with suppliers to ensure correct delivery
• Inform relevant Category Manager/Analyst about supplier pricing and delivery issues
• Understand and keep up with macro-trends and regulations in the region and communicate findings with Category Managers/Analysts
• Communicate supply and demand issues/changes with relevant Category Managers/Analysts
• Ensure that managers in local plants get the value agreed to from Category Management
• Link local end users to sourcing actions to ensure new supply agreements are developed and implemented appropriately.
• Proactively manage operational risks and challenges stemming from regions
• KPIs:
• % spend by P2P channel by plant
• Number of days’ reduction in P2P cycle time by plant
• Number of deviations in good receipts versus PO

End user satisfaction

Qualification, Experience and Competencies

• Tertiary qualification in Purchasing, Logistics or CIPS certificate (or equivalent)

Minimum Required Experience:

• 1-3 years’ experience in procurement
• Preferably experience in multiple geographies/regions

Minimum Required Competencies :

• Core competencies:
• Analytical thinking
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving
• Judgement/decision making
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Applied business numeracy
• Excellence orientation
• Ethical behaviour
• Influencing and negotiation
• Time and self-management
• Technical competencies:
• Operational excellence
• Analysis for business decision making
• Business acumen
• Supplier and local market insight