| Date | 2024-10-17 |
|---|---|
| Job Title | Senior Director Sourcing |
| Employer | PlaceTalent More Information |
| Salary | 1200000 |
| Category | Logistics |
| Location |
Gauteng / Gauteng |
Job Summary
Summary:
The Senior Director of Sourcing is a key strategic role in the organization driving substantial value and managing complex processes, across all 18 countries.
The individual is responsible for leading a team of global category managers and transportation experts, who manage a group of high-impact commodities-products and services, and optime the transportation landscape for such commodities.
This role requires extensive and regular collaboration with functional and regional leadership to understand business requirements to proactively define and execute sourcing and transportation strategies to address such needs and effectively deliver significant business impact. The individual will also be responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with key partners.
Minimum
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred
- Minimum of 15 years experience in procurement and sourcing-related roles at least at Director level; experience in the telecommunications industry is a plus
- Experience working in international, multi-region, and multi-country environments
- Experience managing distributed and virtual teams with a minimum annual spend of $250 M
- Fluency in English is required; additional language skills are a plus
Skills and Knowledge:
- In-depth knowledge of strategic sourcing activities and processes, a plus if related to tower and power components/operations
- Experience in crafting global sourcing strategies, developing and conducting complex RFXs, supplier analysis, negotiations and contracting
- Strategic mindset with sound financial and business acumen as well as well-defined decision-making skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as the ability to think differently (creatively)
- Proven ability to build, motivate, and lead teams
- Proven ability to manage and foster collaboration across stakeholders and countries
- Ability to interact with and communicate at all levels of the organization
- Dynamic, team player, proactive, self-starter (capable of working with minimum oversight) with utmost integrity and ethics
- Excellent organizational skills, detail-oriented, with the ability to multitask and adapt to changing environments and priorities
- Ability to drive change in large organizations
- Resilient, curious, and able to deal with ambiguity
- Strong communication (oral and written) and presentation skills
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite and other relevant software
Main Accountabilities:
- Lead the international sourcing team to develop and implement global sourcing strategies balancing quality, performance, and costs, leading to best value creation outcomes
- Drive continuous improvement of such processes
- Work closely with internal stakeholders-functional and regional, to understand business objectives and strategy to determine demand for products and services
- Collaborate with local/regional teams to regularly update, standardize, and optimize product and service specifications with the ultimate goal of lowering TCO
- Lead the transportation area to optimize carrier and route landscape, carrying regular reviews according to market changes
- Develop and maintain strong, fair, and ethical partnerships with key vendors’ senior management, and ensure acceptance and adherence to the company`s code of conduct
- Conduct regular supplier reviews to manage effectiveness and performance, creating corrective action plans as needed
- Actively manage and mitigate supplier risk as well as geopolitical situations impact delivery of products
- Supervise team (virtual/remote) working on sourcing and transportation activities across LatAm, Europe, and Africa
- Collaborate and interact closely with Regional Procurement Directors and Functional Excellence Director
- Develop and lead close relationships with key vendors
Senior Director Sourcing position available in Gauteng, Gauteng. This job position was posted by PlaceTalent. The job has been posted as a char8000 ad on 2024-10-17 at 01:04:29 in the Logistics category
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