Strategic Procurement Officer - HomeChoice

HomeChoice is a leading omnichannel retailer, delighting our customers with an innovative range of curated products on personalized terms. Our aim is to provide multiple, convenient and easy retail shopping channels to guarantee that we meet all our customer expectations.

The Procurement Officer is responsible for evaluating suppliers, products, and services; assessing and negotiating contracts, and the designing, refinement and implementation of procurement policies, procedures and controls.

Here’s what you can expect to be doing in the role:

Process Design & Implementation

• Engage with stakeholders to set up and design fit-for-purpose procurement practice and policy
• Create clear SOPs and processes with roles & responsibilities
• Educate and Train stakeholders on the process to drive understanding across the business

Due Diligence

• Source and engage reliable vendors including assisting with the tender process and due diligence.
• Work closely with the legal and risk team to review new and existing contracts with suppliers and vendors to ensure strong commercials and on-going feasibility
• Perform annual supplier audits and due diligences including performance evaluations.

Drive operational cost savings

• Review, compare, analyze, and approve supplier spend through segmentation, profiling and evaluation modelling

Establish Business Control & Performance Management

• Create Controls to govern spend and vendor management
• Create visibility of effectiveness of controls across the business through development of incident reporting, monitoring and oversight.
• Control environment strengthening where relevant

Develop & Prepare Reports

• Prepare procurement reports and ad-hoc reporting to be shared with the Exco and Board.
• Assist in monitoring service levels and ensuring that suppliers adhere to agreed service levels and that these are defined and supported by service level agreements.
• Monitor and Report on BEE targets for 2022 to be shared with the Exco and Board.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in accounting, finance, business management or a similar field preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in accounting, procurement or large-scale business environment
• High level of computer literacy in MS Office Suite
• Knowledge of ERP systems and workflow design 
• Exposure to multiple supply chains and business models

• Strong communication and negotiation skills (Verbal and written)
• Attention to detail
• Commercially oriented (Business Acumen and Cost Saving Strategies)
• Excellent interpersonal skills (Team player)
• Multi-tasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks
• Self-motivated + action-oriented
• Exceptional analytical and technical skills
• Ability to work independently and interface with multiple management levels and multiple areas of the company

Competencies

• Communication & Influence
• Planning & Organising
• Delivering Quality Results
• Complex Problem Solving
• Critical Thinking
• Commercial Awareness
• Lead Others
• Co-ordinator