Assistant Procurement E2E Operations Manager
Location | Nairobi, Kenya |
Date Posted | October 5, 2020 |
Category |
Management
Operations |
Job Type |
Full-time
|
Currency | KES |
Description
Upfield is a company selling multiple brands of margarine and other food spreads, including Flora
Role Requirements:
- A very strong academic record- with a University degree in business studies or related discipline with relevant experience
- Minimum 5 years relevant experience involving either procurement or supply chain in the FMCG industry
- Category management skills
- Demonstrated interest in sustainability and/or sustainable development / sustainable systems design
- Great personal organization skills, attention to detail
- Ability to work to deadlines in the multicultural environment
- Ability to articulate complex concepts clearly (both oral and written presentations).
Responsibilities
Categories: Packs, IT, Marketing, Engineering, Digital, Services Facilities
- Support East Africa Procurement E2E Buying and Operations in developing and implementing cluster strategy
- Support in the overall objective of the function in terms of value creation, value protection, and value delivery
- Contracts, governance and Risk Management
- Working with the business to shape requirements and engage best of breed suppliers
- Support security of key materials through the development of contingency plans and alternative materials and suppliers
- Ensure timely inputs to global/regional project development and OTIF (On Time in Full) execution of global/regional projects in Africa
- Prepare information and analysis of the portfolio, including price benchmarking and total cost analysis, to enable proper budgeting, cash forecasting and forecast variance analysis as needed
- Support delivery of cost savings and innovation agenda in the Africa Cluster
- Support Supplier qualification and development
- Procurement lead on P2P