6 Months Temp: Category Specialist – Warehouse. Transport & Packaging

Category Specialist role is part to the  team with Procurement, working to support the procurement of goods and services for various Logistic departments. The role is based in Total South Africa Head-office and the incumbent will be responsible for a Total procurement spend (Indirect Spend) of approximately R2 billion and the role procures for South Africa; Namibia; Swaziland and Botswana. STRATEGIC SOURCING Works with the business, cross functional teams and Group to understand and, where possible, optimise the local and regional business requirements for third party goods and services. Defines and Implement sourcing strategies to ensure projects across multiple end users are delivered within timelines as per business plans and category and procurement strategies. Analysing external and internal drivers of the category profile and understand supply chain and TCO reduction opportunities and apply benchmarking To analyse past spend as well as forecast spend and savings by commodity/business unit/location Applies current sourcing tools and methodologies including execution of sourcing events with e-sourcing technology. Implements and realises value through effective strategic cost management utilising best in class methods and tools. Supports the due diligence in mitigating external supply risk from supplier selection through to contract execution and on-going supplier delivery. developments of purchasing plans ; updating as per progress and provide performance tracking reports to Category Manager CONTRACT EXECUTION AND IMPLEMENTATION Responsible for defining contract strategies, drafting agreements; implementing longer term contracts / agreement with suppliers using defined indexes and defined supplier performance metrics Implements clear and concise supply contracts, which considers all Total SA HSSE, legal and commercial aspects and ensure correct use of contract standard terms and application of industry terms and conditions. Supports ongoing contract management, including compliance to contractual terms by the suppliers; management of contract expiry and renegotiation of contracts Ensures the mechanics of the contracts, as well as the risks, are understood by all impacted stakeholders. SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Develop a list of key and strategic suppliers to be approved by the Local Contract Committee and Group Category Managers Manager the supplier performance management processes including coordinating SPM with end-user’s involvement; developing the assessment questionnaire. Facilitates the performance review process. Uses tools to drive analysis of a wide variety of performance information. Propose and apply incentive schemes and penalties to drive and improve performance. Facilitate development of mutually agreed performance improvement plans. STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT To closely manage the relationship with internal customers and stakeholders, both within the framework of cross-functional category teams but also generally other inter