Buyer - Services - Africa & Middle East Countries

About this role

Buyer

• Services
• Africa & Middle East Countries
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Mission

Build and develop an expertise of the markets with the business entities from the sourcing phase and through end-to-end execution to maximize business performance. Ensure that the Purchasing process is properly executed through supplier relationship life cycle

Context specific expectations from the candidate: The person will play the role of a buyer for the countries of the Africa Middle East Region. The mission also includes reinforcement of Purchasing processes, practices and mindsets in the supported countries.

Countries supported: United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Nigeria, Republic of South Africa

Purchase families: Services domain, all families

Key responsibilities

• Source to Contract: own and deliver the process output from requirement specifications to contract signed. Educate users on the process and ensure adherence to the process.
• Request to Pay: own and deliver the process output from request received to PO issued. Educate users on the process and ensure adherence to the process.
• Key Deliverables & KPIs
• o   Purchasing Savings: cost reduction and cost avoidance
• o   Purchasing Terms of Payment
• o   Innovation With Suppliers
• o   Payment on Time
• o   Touchless Purchase Orders & Invoice Payments
• o   BEE Supplier Score deliverables in the Republic of South Africa
• Tools that will be used (familiarity desirable, training will be imparted)
• o   Oracle Prod 2 for UAE
• o   Business Central for Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa
• o   Ivalua for competitive bidding
• o   Hermes for contract management
• o   PowerBI for dashboard
• o   Microsoft Office fluency is a must (Excel, Powerpoint, Word)
• o   Ability to use Aurora AI is desirable as a selection criteria. However, the selected candidate will be expected to use Aurora AI increasingly in the future.
• Key qualities & traits needed to succeed
• o   Structured, analytical and rational thinking, using data and events as evidence
• o   Learning mindset: an ability to quickly learn new metier & approaches
• o   Communication – precise and concise articulation, coupled with good listening
• o   Assertiveness, to hold your ground in defence of the process when faced with stakeholders
• o   Project management basics are understood
• o   Process improvement basic principles are understood
• o   Change management basics are understood
• o   Ability to synthesize situations, then develop and systematically and autonomously deploy actions consistent with the synthesis

o Negotiation skills

• Language

skills

• strong English language skills are mandatory
• Stakeholder interaction: key skill and with 4 different countries and cultures
• Work from office expectations are consistent with the prevailing company policy, as may be amended from time to time.
• Travel: very occasional. If required, it will be maximum once per year to some of the supported countries.