Procurement Officer

Our client, a global leader accelerating the transition to a carbon neutral world, operates in more than 30 countries with a workforce of over 98,000 employees. The company delivers innovative solutions in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable infrastructure, with a strong focus on low carbon power generation and customer centric energy solutions. They are seeking a skilled Procurement Officer to join their purpose driven team in Johannesburg, South Africa. In this role, the successful candidate will manage end to end procurement processes, including sourcing and evaluating suppliers, coordinating RFQs/RFPs, negotiating pricing and terms, issuing and tracking purchase orders, and ensuring full compliance with procurement policies. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to impactful, future focused projects within a fast paced and mission driven environment.

• Enforce the Group procurement policy and governance when procuring any goods and services.
• Ensure good relations with suppliers and vendors and build up a vendor database.
• Support the implementation and roll out of digital tools for procurement such as the ERP system.
• Provide support in G&A purchasing matters to other regional offices: share the knowledge and support when required on G&A suppliers and global contracts.
• Consolidate the requirements from the entities, consult the market, identify opportunities to implement framework agreements and work closely with entities to place contracts and purchase orders.
• Support the implementation and roll out of digital tools for procurement such as the ERP system.
• Good understanding and experience in the procurement processes: Source to Pay, Procure to Pay, Manage your Supplier Panel, Management Categories.
• Identify and select the best sourcing channel and reference amongst the pre negotiated framework (suppliers, contracts, catalogs).
• Convert low-to-moderate spend/risk purchase requisitions, covered under contract, to a purchase order (PO), approve Po's up to a specified amount.
• Provide suppliers with valid delivery dates and support order expediting; Track incoming deliveries (reminders).
• Provide reliable and comprehensive reports and feedback, in order to improve the efficiency of the procurement strategy and supplier performance plan.
• Ensure adherence to organisational Policies, Governance, Rules, Processes, Tools (incl ERP & P2P process), KPIs, Digital Transformation, Performance, Expertise in excel and power BI, smart data analysis, etc.

• Bachelor's degree in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years' functional experience across procurement, supply chain, and logistics operations.
• Experience in operational procurement preferably in power plants.
• CIPS level 4 or higher is preferred.
• Good knowledge of digital tools including ERP systems (SAP, Maximo, MS Dynamics etc.), Advance Excel, Power BI, MS Office applications etc.

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