WORK EXPERIENCE
Company
Position
Location
Period
Reporting to: Procurement Manager Spend : +-R80m
: Philip Morris South Africa (Pty) Ltd
: Procurement Specialist: Marketing & Sales : Century City Head Office
: 1st of November 2019 – Present
Responsibilities Sourcing
- To identify, evaluate and lead the selection of suitable suppliers of supplies, goods and services based on quality, price and service-delivery as per the strategic sourcing principles and strategy to ensure optimal value for the local (South Africa) Philip Morris region.
- Lead sourcing initiatives and projects through spend analysis, market assessment, supplier selection and negotiations while ensuring value of benefits are being realised at regional level.
- Deliver on cost reduction commitments through the identification, development and execution of innovative/repeat strategic sourcing initiatives.
- Collaborate with key internal business partners to support overall business objectives.
- Track Supplier performance based on KPI set out in the tender. Manage non-
performances through an action plan over a set out period.
- Mitigate risk by selecting suppliers that comply to set out criteria’s such as Sustainability requirements, Quality conformance and other identified risk areas.
- Ensure contracts and supplier selections forms are valid.
- Maintain the standard and preferred supplier list that the business uses when a requirement arises.
Achievements
- Awarded an ABCD Award in 2022 for achieving significant savings.
- Awarded an ABCD Award in 2021 for displaying consumer centric behaviour –
Consumer at the Core.
Spend : +-R500m
Company name: Parmalat (Pty) Ltd
Procurement Specialist: In-directs : Stellenbosch Head Office
Period : 1st of August 2017 – 30th of October 2019
Reporting to: Head of Procurement
Responsibilities Group Sourcing
- To identify, evaluate and lead the selection of suitable suppliers of supplies, goods and services based on quality, price and service-delivery as per the strategic sourcing principles and strategy to ensure optimal value for the local (South Africa) Parmalat region.
- Lead sourcing initiatives and projects through spend analysis, market assessment, supplier selection and negotiations while ensuring value of benefits are being realised at plant and group level.
- Deliver on cost reduction commitments through the identification, development and execution of innovative strategic sourcing initiatives.
- Establish Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) practices and reinforce through regular benchmarking, periodic RFX's and supplier performance management reporting.
- Team up with key internal business partners to support overall business objectives. Contracts Management
- To identify potential risk areas and mitigate risks, by ensuring due diligence in all contracts and SLA’s.
- Review and negotiate contractual agreements for specific commodities.
- To translate sourcing strategies into contract terms and conditions.
- Monitor and track contract savings especially on milestone contracts where savings can only be realised in the long term/run.
- Manage and maintain the contracts risk register.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to establish SLA’s to ensure supplier commitment and compliance.
- To ensure that existing contracts remain valid with respects to changes in internal and external environment.
- Prepare Letter of Agreements and Letter of Awards.
- Maintain short term and medium supplier agreements.
- Updating of Addendums and issuing of termination notices to suppliers.
Achievements
Rationalisation of Point of Sale Suppliers Savings Project
Through the rationalisation of the Point of Sale suppliers, a preferred supplier was awarded a contract to assist with the procurement of POS. The initiative yields an estimated annual savings of R500 000.
Coupons Savings Project
Through rigorous spend intervention and negotiations with supplier, negotiated savings of over
