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