Senior Procurement Manager at KFC

The purpose of this role is to manage all Food, Packaging, Capex and Indirects procurement categories for Rest of Sub-Saharan Africa (RoSSA), to ensure most optimal total cost. RoSSA currently has 200+ Restaurants in 21 countries. We are the leading international QSR (Quick Service Restaurants) on the continent with future growth in builds to come from expansion in RoSSA.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic thinking:

• Develop and maintain category strategies per sub-category to ensure lowest cost and top performance over the short term and into the long term
• Lead cost engineering initiatives to reduce/maintain capex and balance with opex to ensure most optimal total cost
• Perform medium to long term planning with suppliers to align their growth to that of KFC
• Supply chain risks analysis and mitigation for short, medium and long-term
• Provide input into overall supply chain strategies and plans, including logistics, planning, and quality

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Management:

• Develop and maintain a KPI scorecard system to track the performance of the categories and the category management team
• Developing existing and new suppliers’ capabilities, and capacity, to ensure a top performing supply chain
• Developing and building capability within Franchisee supply chain teams, by providing category management and strategic sourcing leadership, training and consultation

Execution:

• Partner with Franchisee Supply Chain teams in execution the category plans and goal results for categories
• Benchmarking suppliers/categories, on an ongoing basis, to ensure optimal cost and performance
• Lead sourcing events
• Implement appropriate supplier management practices across the supply base - which include audits, management reviews, performance and risk management
• Maintain good franchisee and supplier relationships
• Ensure compliance to governance requirements at all times

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree is Supply Chain/ Procurement/ Commerce 
• CIPS

Experience:

• Min 8 - 10 Years’ Supply Chain related experience
• Hands-on experience in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Total Cost to Serve (TCS)
• Possess excellent negotiating skills, obtained from strategic or complex negotiations
• Experience in strategic sourcing including understanding technical product complexities, supplier or product cost drivers and other factors that influence pricing
• Working experience in East and/or West Africa
• Superior market data analytic skills
• Bias for technology
• Retail and/or FMCG experience

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Competencies/Skills:

• Strategic Sourcing,
• Supplier Relationship Management,
• Project Management,
• Negotiating,
• Influencing & Collaborating