Company:
Maersk Line
Industry: Logistics and Transportation
Deadline: Not specified
Job Type: Full Time
Experience: 4 years
Location: Western Cape
Province: Cape Town
Field: Logistics, Procurement / Store-keeping / Supply Chain
Key Responsibilities
- Day-to-Day Procurement Activities: Manage procurement activities professionally with leadership support to ensure every dollar is well spent.
- Market Engagement: Conduct supplier market analysis and gather market intelligence.
- Go-to-Market Execution: Lead RFI, RFQ, and RFP processes, evaluate supplier responses quantitatively, and present comparative analyses. Negotiate using market insights to guide procurement decisions.
- Procurement Category Strategy: Provide analytical insights to develop category strategies that reduce total costs while ensuring value, service quality, and policy compliance. Develop total cost of ownership (TCO) and cost models to drive optimal decisions.
- Sourcing Strategy: Use TMS dashboards to report on sourcing strategy alignment and deviations.
- Customer Tenders: Support procurement business partners with timely input for product and sales tenders.
- Contract Management: Implement contract frameworks to ensure cost leadership, compliance, and superior supplier performance.
- Global Processes & Teams: Perform responsibilities using global procurement processes, tools, and category management teams.
- Implementation Partner: Assist procurement management in continuous improvement initiatives through data intelligence, problem-solving, and analytical insight generation.
- TMS Oversight: Facilitate feedback loops between sourcing and execution, track adherence to procurement-endorsed rates, and balance capacity versus rates.
- Collaboration: Work with Regional Rate Focals and Global TMS enablement teams to drive rate compliance and accuracy in the Maersk Rate Engine (MRE) and TMS.
- Support Functions: Assist Product, Delivery, and Finance Operations in tracking savings after contract commencement.
- Travel: Travel within the SAI region as needed for site and supplier engagements.
Who We Are Looking For
Someone with:
- Bachelor’s or postgraduate degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Information Technology, or related fields.
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience in analytics and procurement.
- In-depth understanding of best-in-class procurement practices.
- Experience in First Mile Transportation is advantageous.
- Proven record of outstanding professional performance.
- Ability to work collaboratively within teams.
- Experience managing teams and projects, driving end-to-end sourcing projects and cost reduction initiatives.
- Strong communication, planning, and prioritizing skills to efficiently meet deadlines and high-level goals in a complex, fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
- Structured and analytical problem-solving abilities