Senior Manager Supplier and Sourcing Enablement

Job purpose and deliverables

The core purpose of the role is to lead and provide strategic direction in order to achieve sustainable and continuous value delivery to the business by driving total collaboration and alignment across the entire business supply value chain. As a key enabler of the strategic sourcing function, the incumbent is required to set up centres of excellence and provide key data/ intelligence to operate effectively. This is achieved through the establishment of proper and effective cross functional support centres of excellence, such as governance and compliance, performance reporting and benchmarking, business/supply intelligence, master data, training, monitoring efficiency, process continuous improvement, contract administration, and knowledge and skill management. The incumbent is responsible to lead the proactive sourcing of suppliers from the market on continuous basis to meet business requirements and ensure that supplier due diligence and vetting processes are executed. The incumbent is responsible for not only building strong relationships with internal business stakeholders and suppliers but also leading and responsible for development and implementation of the Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) strategy and proactively ensure the end-to-end management of organisation supplier base. This includes driving transformation through Enterprise & Supplier Development and identifying appropriate beneficiary candidates.

Key deliverables and outputs

Direct and implement supplier sourcing, supplier management and sourcing enablement strategy

• Develop an integrated supplier sourcing, supplier management and Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) strategy in line with the various category strategies and The company Automotive and Logistics broad transformation agenda.
• Develop tactical plans, targets, processes and tools to ensure execution of the above strategy to ensure proactive sourcing of suppliers from the market in line with business, transformation, governance and supplier performance requirements.
• Provide centre of excellence & information required to operate effectively. such as Sourcing Governance, Compliance, Reporting, Benchmarking, supply intelligence and Master Data
• Collaborate with the Executive: Transformation to execute B-BBEE requirements and to identify, evaluate and develop or improve the supplier database; ensuring that the B-BBEE enterprise and supplier development requirements are prioritised.
• Drive transformation through Enterprise & Supplier Development by identifying appropriate beneficiary candidates. Drive the execution of initiatives fulfilling the strategic sourcing
  
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