Key Responsibilities

• Acts as the key person in the organization having responsibility for driving Group sourcing objectives, analyzes metrics and builds programs to deliver improved performance.
• Drives supply chain best practices and standardization of processes across the group regarding supplier productivity performance throughout the Group; analyzes Group spend for key aggregation/consolidation opportunities and creates programs to leverage spend wherever achievable.
• Evaluate the existing sourcing contracts across the Group, consolidating, and presenting improvement strategies. Analyzing and evaluating Group sourcing contract costs and developing cost reduction strategies.
• Monitor the Group’s sourcing strategy and if any change is required to ensure better sourcing, propose changes to the strategy according to the market conditions.
• Maintain all contracts and evaluate their performance according to contract and ensure efficient flow of all conditions in contract including renewals, costs
• Design and implement an effective Group sourcing strategy to reduce costs and manage all sourcing processes.
• Conducting market research, as well as creating cost estimates and forecasts.
• Estimating risks and applying risk minimizing techniques.
• Maintaining strategic Group supply chain relationships and developing strong partnerships

The Person

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or a Science-related field (Required)
• Professional Qualifications: Kenya Institute of Supplies Management (KISM) or an equivalent certification (Required)
• Membership: Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) or an equivalent organization (Preferred)
• Master’s Degree: MBA or related Business discipline will be an added advantage
• Minimum of 7 years of total professional experience
• 5 years’ experience in Procurement Strategy Management (development & implementation)
• 3 years’ experience in Logistics
• 5 years’ experience in Strategic Negotiations
• 6 years’ experience in Supplier Relationship Management
• 6 years’ experience in Contract Management