Buyer - Services - Africa & Middle East

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:

• Purchasing savings: cost reduction and cost avoidance
• Purchasing terms of payment
• Innovation with suppliers
• Payment on time
• Touchless purchase orders and invoice payments
• BEE supplier score deliverables in the Republic of South Africa

Tools that will be used (familiarity desirable, training will be imparted):

• Oracle Prod 2 for UAE
• Business Central for Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa
• Ivalua for competitive bidding
• Hermes for contract management
• PowerBI for dashboard
• Microsoft Office fluency is a must (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• 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:

• Structured, analytical and rational thinking, using data and events as evidence
• Learning mindset: an ability to quickly learn new metier and approaches
• Communication - precise and concise articulation, coupled with good listening
• Assertiveness, to hold your ground in defence of the process when faced with stakeholders
• Project management basics are understood
• Process improvement basic principles are understood
• Change management basics are understood
• Ability to synthesize situations, then develop and systematically and autonomously deploy actions consistent with the synthesis
• 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.