Permanent - Commodity Leader - Tshwane (Pretoria) - South Africa

Responsible for driving the implementation of the commodity strategy, ensuring alignment with global purchasing policies, and delivering performance objectives across quality, cost, and supply

The role requires close collaboration with internal stakeholders and suppliers to achieve strategic goals and maintain compliance with established standards

The main missions of the role are:

• Delivery of commodity strategic plan

• Commodity-specific metrics

• Performance versus business SLAs

• Business stakeholder satisfaction

• Supply performance

• Compliance and risk management

• Organizational impact and personal development

• Support the Commodity Director / Manager in development of strategy for his/her commodities

• Implement the commodity strategic purchasing process, under management of the GCD - e.g., launch RFx, manage catalog

• Provide insights into specific suppliers, markets and business factors

• Ensure compliance with global policy

Minimum Education Level:

 Diploma / degree in business, purchasing or engineering.

Experience :

• Prior experience with purchasing / strategic sourcing or sales is highly desirable

Skills and competencies :

• Strong negotiation skills

• Purchasing financials skills, including data analytics, budgeting and savings calculation

• Business sense / strategic thinking ability

• Drive, creativity and willingness to learn

• Strong interpersonal skills including written and oral communication skills

• Proficient in English

Nice to have

• Experience in global commodity management and advanced analytics tools