Regional Category Manager Energy SA/Africa

Description

Headquartered in Steinhausen in the Canton of Zug, Switzerland, Trinity will create value for its customers and investors through excellence in purchasing across an extensive range of commodities, including brewing materials, packaging materials, capital equipment and other assets and non-production spend. The steady state annual value of spend under management is expected to exceed US$10bn by 2016.  By this time, Trinity is targeted to deliver annual savings in excess of US$200m for its customers and investors referenced against 2008 spend levels. 

A global centre of excellence, Trinity will act economically and fiscally as an entrepreneur, taking on varying degrees of risk in purchasing.  In respect of this it will earn reward; either a mark up on the cost of its goods sold or a fee for service delivery.  

Whilst the headquarters operation in Zug will provide the strategic leadership and intellectual nucleus of the business, the organisation will also comprise three regional teams dispersed strategically across the international customer and supplier network.  Forming part of the overall international matrix structure, these teams will be located in Johannesburg (South Africa), Bogotá (Colombia) and Baar (Switzerland).  When fully established, the business is expected to employ almost 100 staff, representing a highly complex, multi-cultural workforce comprised, in many instances, of international leaders in their field and characterised by its intellectual rigour, strategic appreciation and focus on value creation.

The creation of the required structures to support this global procurement organisation and to develop the optimal sourcing strategies is now well underway.  A critical component of this focuses on securing, retaining and developing the required talent referred to above and developing and embedding an appropriate employment infrastructure and culture to underpin the fulfilment of the company’s highly demanding goals.

Key Purpose Statement

• Development and Execution of procurement and supply management activities for Energy under the guidance of the Category Director/Manager
• Drive Regional Supplier Management strategies and negotiations at middle to senior management levels
• Implement cost reduction strategies in procurement on an annual basis
• Manage resources dedicated or available to the category

Organisational Context

The Regional Category Manager will report to the Global Category Director/Manager.  Key to the success of the role will be their ability to manage category procurement and work with the wider procurement organisation to provide service to the SABMiller businesses.

Key Dimensions

The Regional Category Manager will be responsible for providing:

• Regional Market Expertise
• Strategy Execution
• Stakeholder Management
• Supplier Management
• Procurement services

to SABMiller Africa and SABMiller South Africa. Their portfolio is anticipated to grow over 3 years to include variants, related products and possibly include backward integration of suppliers.

Outputs and Accountabilities

The Role

The role is to provide broad category procurement expertise, manage suppliers and development and implementation of strategies and operations ensuring that global and regional procurement leverages scale and efficiencies, and manages risk appropriately within the category group in the Africa and South Africa Regions.

Key Responsibilities

1) Strategy:

• Under the guidance of the Category Director/Manager, participate in developing global best practice and develop regional strategies inline.
• Negotiating regional  supply for the annual budget
• Maintain Global, Regional and Country Service Level agreements within the Region and Countries
• Drive annual productivity improvements in each spend category

2) Operation:

• Implement the process to select and manage suppliers
• Manage Supplier compliance and supply issues
• Measure and track internal performance within each spend category
• Drive best practices in procurement and logistics
• Support country purchasing teams in resolving operational problems and in optimising short term supply plans
• Uphold internal and external policies, regulations and laws especially for tax

3) Team:

• Develop teamwork within Trinity and across the procurement organisation, with specific expertise in the portfolio spend categories
• Manage the analysts and other team members
• Attract, develop, and retain talent base as appropriate

Reporting lines

Direct:              Global Category Director

Competence Requirements

Knowledge and Experience Required

• An appropriate Bachelor’s degree and related qualification is essential
• Extensive experience in Energy buying as a category
• Experience of working as a strategic sourcing ‘business partner’
• Experience of stakeholder management in a complex decentralised global environment
• Experience of the full range of Procurement tools, techniques and accountabilities ranging from supplier management, category analysis; buying and handling
• Some knowledge of supplier, production and category management trends, regulations and regimes. 
• Experience of successfully working with small but dispersed teams

Skills and Attributes Required

• Able to understand and interpret strategic plans focused both on external and internal trends
• Strong influencing and coaching skills
• Good communicator across all levels within and external to the organisation with  personal gravitas and credibility
• Customer focused mind-set and approach
• Finance and budget management literate
• Demonstrable problem solving skills with an ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
• Excellent self-management practices
• Proactive, energetic and committed
• Flexible, adaptable and pragmatic

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