The Procurement Manager has a significant contribution to the value creation for Sulzer Services. The support of optimum production processes, in particular on-time availability of procured materials, is a key deliverable of the role. Similarly, fulfilment of required quality, OTD and optimized cost are major requirements.

The Procurement Manager is responsible for the planning, executing, and finalising purchasing and procurement strategies for spend across our organization. This includes acquiring resources within budget and facilitating communication between our organisation and its providers to deliver products and services according to plan.

Main tasks and responsibilities

1. Responsibility for the procurement activities of all direct materials and defined indirect materials in our organisation.
2. Management of our organisation’s policies and procedure regarding the purchase of goods and services, adhering to finance department procedures and organisation’s standards of purchasing.
3. Management of the local team of buyers and procurement team.
4. Alignment and challenging of commodity strategies with category managers and the Management Team
5. Support the coordination of procurement optimization activities across South Africa
6. Support purchasers in the optimization of procurement costs
7. Procurement controlling for our organisation.
8. Support supplier management and development
9. Expediting order requirements with suppliers to ensure that supply meets client requirements, and that vendor or shipment problems are dealt with.
10. Progressing on time delivery of procured items with suppliers.

Employee Development

1. Mentoring, directing, motivating, supervising, and monitoring the performance of all members of the allocated team.
2. Responsibility for operational staff’s appraisals in accordance with local policy.
3. Responsibility for staff development and training ensuring this is aligned to the business requirements.

Continuous Improvement

1. Support and drive the continuous improvement process for operational issues.
2. Management of Operational non-conformances through respective teams – reporting, trend analysis and RCA for preventative and corrective action
3. Participation in the development & implementation of best practice across the organisation’s region.
4. Develop Lean principles within all areas of your department.

Competencies and behaviour required (What strengths needed?)

• Managing and motivating teams and internal and external stakeholders.
• Being able to work within a matrix organisation.
• Ensuring accountability and integrity.
• Strategic agility and global mindset.
• Taking care about local and EMEA targets.

Qualifications/Experience and Knowledge Required

• Technical or commercial qualification.
• Significant experience of working in an international matrix organisation.
• Significant management experience in the procurement of an engineering company.

Decision accountability (What is within the jobholders’ accountabilities)

• Non-conformance costs.
• Resource allocation & management.
• Supplier management.
• Training & development to support operational requirements & processes.
• Own departmental priority setting.
• Continuous improvement project initiatives across all areas under your responsibility.

Measured by: (Key performance measurements)

• Individual KPIs (EMEA and local targets).
• OTD and quality of supplies.
• Cost development for the organisation.
• Adherence to agreed standard operational suite of KPI’s.
• Quality performance.
• Completion of reports in line with set deadlines.