Country Procurement Manager at SABMiller - Gaborone

What do we offer?

The Botswana Country Head of Procurement will be responsible for the Procurement Operations and Procurement Personnel at all KBL sites within Botswana.

This person holds accountability for local target setting in alignment with global and regional Procurement goals. Driving Procurement value contribution and excellent service to the SABMiller business while ensuring compliance with policies, strategies and processes, the Country Head of Procurement also has functional and managerial responsibility for the Local Sourcing Manager and Procurement Specialists allocated to the country.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop and monitor the Procurement budget in the country from a leadership position; acting as a change agent in leading implementation of new global procurement initiatives. You will be managing supplier relationships at country level, as well as the relationships with key internal stakeholders.

You will be an ambassador for procurement, reinforcing and promoting best practice across the end-to-end sourcing process to ensure end users are following proper buying channel guidance. Proactively organise sessions with internal customers to identify further TCO/TVO reduction opportunities, in alignment with Regional and Global Category Teams. You will also be responsible for managing your team in a way that improves and reinforces procurement’s profile and recognition within the internal customer community across SABMiller.

This is a new position within SABMiller Procurement and as such there is a fantastic opportunity to lead changes internally across the supply chain, designing procurement activities from scratch in a somewhat “Greenfield” environment.

Categories covered by the role: Primary Materials, Brewing Materials, Packaging Materials, Marketing and Sales, Professional Business Services, Utilities, Fleet and Freight, Maintenance, Repairs and Operations and Capex

Desired Skills and Experience

Who are you?

• Academic background: University/Bachelor’s degree, preferably in engineering and/or commerce or other relevant discipline; or a relevant combination of formal qualifications and additional specialised study; a recognised qualification in procurement would be considered an asset.
• Experience: Demonstrable depth of knowledge of procurement and Supply Chain Management, with relevant leadership experience in the same functional domain or other related positions, preferably working in an international environment. Ideally you will have experience in a “Greenfield” or similar sourcing environment where you have led or facilitated a major change.
• Language skills: Proficiency in English
• Personal: Ambitious and self-driven with the ability to work proactively and autonomously in a complex and challenging environment. Both the role and SABMiller would suit someone looking for the potential to further develop a career in procurement.

Other Competencies:

• Can apply insights gained from analysis to develop “game-changing” category strategies and combine this with strong influencing skills to gain buy-in from internal stakeholders and suppliers.
• Strong Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) skills, able to work collaboratively with local, regional and global suppliers.
• Ability to deliver real value to customers and emphasising results over activities.
• Pragmatic individual with the ability to translate vision and strategies into own and others priorities and into daily work activities.
• Tough-skinned and able to challenge assumptions and influence business partners to director/CXO/board level.
• Excellent leadership skills; understands how to build an environment that enables the team to thrive and prosper, performing at its best and living the SABMiller values.
• Superior change leadership skills, ideally having delivered change in a complex “Greenfield” procurement environment.

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