Aspen Careers – Group Procurement Project Manager

Job Description:

Job Responsibilities:

• Facilitate, track and support procurement strategies under the management of the Procurement Head (based in India) aimed at optimizing cost and material availability/ supplier reliability with relevant procurement category councils and the procurement nerve centre.
• Facilitate and support category councils on procurement benchmarking to ensure best price across all categories.
• Implement and manage the tracking of all group procurement initiatives with the relevant category councils using the Group Operations Project management system.
• Review cost drivers to enable optimised cost of goods at all times.
• Regular updating of benchmarks to contribute to the benchmarking process under the management of the Procurement Head to ensure best pricing for Aspen Group Operations across all categories.
• Ensure that all new contracts are reviewed by the responsible legal counsel with relevant input from the Group Strategic Manufacturing:
• Support Services, category councils, support SME’s (e.g. regulatory, quality and compliance) with a final endorsement from the procurement nerve centre.
• Implement and roll out of the COUPA’s spend cube analysis tool across all Group operations procurement teams.
• Review supplier base on a continual basis to enable identification of risk to supply and to introduce mitigation plans.
• Ensure compliance to BBBEE in South Africa e.g. vendor management process and qualification of vendors.

Job Requirements:

• Initiative, follow up & time management
• Planning & organising
• Ability to work productively and independently under pressure
• Attention to detail & accuracy
• High level of integrity, ethical values & confidentiality
• Customer focus
• Sense of urgency
• Decision making
• Critical analytical skills
• Lead and Influence Others
• Ability to deliver with quality, speed & value
• Problem solving & logical thinker

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree/ diploma preferred, ideally in Commerce, Engineering or Project management
• Project management experience preferable
• Minimum 15 years of overall required experience
• 10 years of Pharmaceutical, FMCG or chemical industry experience with knowledge of cross functional activities

Job Details:

Company: Aspen Pharma

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, SA

Application Deadline: N/A

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