Roles & Responsibilities:
- Assist in driving continuous improvement, best value, and quality improvements within the team and departments by challenging existing practices and actively seeking ways to achieve better outcomes, contributing to ensuring key performance and financial targets are met, and corrective action is taken where necessary.
- Leverage resources across all boundaries to support business goals, bringing all expertise necessary to address the institution's challenges to safeguard against contractual and commercial risk.
- Responsible for Supply, Demand, Production and Material Planning for all factories.
- Lead the discussion in S&OP process and Supply review meeting.
- Responsible for risk analysis on supply vs demand, coordination of scenario planning to propose viable plan & alternatives for decision making.
- Assist in reports to the Management and respective committees as may be required from time to time to provide up-to-date status reports, demonstrating value for money and compliance with regulatory requirements, including Anti-Bribery and Corruption and Fraud.
- Ensure all aspects of regulatory compliance are adhered to regarding the respective policies and external requirements, implementing strategies that safeguard the institution's contractual and commercial risk.
- Execute and enforce excellent and effective collaborative relationships with key stakeholders, external providers, and other agencies to ensure strategic and operational needs are fully understood and incorporated.
- Lead and motivate Executives, ensuring they receive appropriate support, training, and development to achieve their potential.
- Identify training needs for the group of businesses, establishing and managing future demand and capacity planning including the development of risk management.
- Promote best practices through continuous improvement.
- Act as the principal conduit for formal communications with external companies.
- Facilitate the development of relationships with existing and potential partners.
- Work within the relevant legislation, policies, and procedures.
- Participate in the Annual Performance Development Review Process.
- Perform any other ad-hoc tasks assigned by senior management.
Requirements:
- Detailed knowledge of procurement legislation, supplier and contract management.
- Experience of procuring contracts, procurement installation and use of procurement systems.
- High level of programme management skills
- Extensive expertise, having operated at a strategic level with a strong track record of success in delivering financial savings.
- Able to manage a multitude of projects and/ or vendors simultaneously
- Work experience in similar position within manufacturing and FMCG environment
