Job Description

Unitrans is seeking to employ a Category Manager for depot requirements, the role will manage all aspects of contracts and procurement for the organisation. Provide purchasing services including preparation of enquiries; adjudication of tenders; placing orders; compiling annual contracts and administering and settling contract disputes. Ensure compliance with legal and company regulations. Organise the logistics and ensures that items procured are delivered to site timeously.What unique contribution does this job make to the organisation?
Rationalize, maintain, and continuously improve the efficiencies around sourcing, ordering, quality, pricing, and cost, and driving availability through on-time-in-full (OTIF) within the services and products requirements at depots within Unitrans. Generate RFI / RFQ and RFPs and execute the bidding process. Reduction of overall tyres cost and inventory.
Minimum RequirementsQUALIFICATIONS: Tertiary Qualification, CIPS, CSCPPRIOR EXPERIENCE: Category Management, senior buying within support services categories including, security, stationery, and cleaning.KNOWLEDGE:

• A sound understanding of buying the right stock across multiple brands and categories
• Experience and understanding of importation processes and Inco terms
• Experience and knowledge of warehousing or stores management principles and methodologies
• Ability to clearly articulate information and communicate findings up and down the line
• Ability to analyse and interpreted data and make meaningful conclusions
• Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal
• Familiarity with seasonal products and requirements
• Operational systems and procedures
• Reporting procedures
• Policies and Procedures

Duties & ResponsibilitiesSourcing

• Strategically rationalize, source, monitor and manage all tyres including industrial supplier portfolio within the category
• Build, develop and maintain pricing structures, their accuracy and length of pricing validity within the category in line with strategic objectives.
• New products development and testing

Availability

• Manage services and products supplied in relation to SLA from rationalized regional and national suppliers
• Effectively managing supply and services that are centralized and order management with preferred suppliers

Replenishment

• Drive replenishment and order consistency in line with overall strategy with buying team ensuring order process is meticulously followed by order type.
• Managing supplier through SLAs and ensuring consistent supply of business requirements.
• Ensure master data and efficiencies around ordering are up to date and maintained.

Stock Management

• Stock levels and stock holding aligned to parameters and rightsized relative to depot and country of operation.
• Ensure consignment stock strategies are aligned to overall vision of procurement.
• Repurposing of stock intercompany to correct depots
• Aligning SKU data to vehicle type through support services.
• Obsolete management, disposals, and provisions.

Internal Customers

• Drive interactions with business to understand requirements and align on demand planning and forecasts using relevant division's business plans to develop effective procurement strategy and ensure alignment with COO.

Cost Management and savings

• Pricing, payment terms, rebates and overall cost management must remain competitive leveraging total spend opportunity within group.
• Deliver on sub-category savings and goals in alignment with sub-categories savings targets and operational goals.

Supplier Relationship Management

• Develop and ensure sustainable and effective supplier relationship management through reliable supply base and build partnerships with strategic suppliers, lead pre-qualification of potential suppliers, develop clear strategy to optimize allocation of spend across suppliers.
• Review supplier performance and assess supplier risks, develop supplier segmentation by category, interface with senior suppliers executives to set supplier management targets, manage end-to-end contract management life cycle and develop mitigation plans to ensure delivery and performance of suppliers as per agreed SLA's.

Supplier Master Data

• Ensure only approved suppliers are available to purchase products within the category aligning taxonomy of supplier data is accurate and completed correctly.
• As the custodian of master data within the category, ensure pricing, SKU (stock keeping unit) management is driven by the OEM requirement and aligned to aftermarket suppliers.
• Ensure price escalations from suppliers are aligned to SLA and managed to ensure overall cost increases are kept to a minimum.

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