Procurement Manager: Facilities Management

What will you do?

This career opportunity is available at Santam for the  Group Sourcing and Transformation department that provides procurement support to the Sanlam Group. The role is based in Tygervalley, Cape Town.   
  

This role will report to the Head of Procurement (with a dotted line to the Head: Facilities and Real estate) to primarily manage and co-ordinate across the Sanlam Group. This role will be responsible for executing strategic category management that will drive cost efficiencies, procurement process compliance, drive procurement value and enhance stakeholder experience. The successful candidate will engage with multiple business partners to ensure a common understanding and consistent application of our procurement policy and processes. The procurement manager will ensure all procurement deliverables and milestones are met within the required timelines, budget, scope and quality.
 

What will make you successful in this role?

• Classification of spend and detailed analysis of spend for the Facilities Management spend sub-categories.  
• Development of procurement business cases for related sub-categories.
• Initiate procurement initiatives and development of approved category plans.   
• Sourcing and support to business with contract management of commodities within the category procurement portfolio. Management of costs and achieve savings against agreed budgets.
• Drive strategic sourcing initiatives and show acumen towards driving new initiatives.   
• Manage supplier relationships; manage contracted database and new contracts. Ensure necessary procurement related compliance processes are adhered to.  
• Manage and maintain various reporting platforms and validate system integrity and data quality.  
• Facilitate relationships between procurement and internal stakeholders, operations/business and clients.  
• Attend and provide support in required Cross Functional Sourcing Team meetings.  
• Work with nominated third party suppliers to deliver to the FM clients (outsource purchasing function)
• Support and deliver on strategic business initiatives that   result in the following outcomes:
  • Cost savings  
  • Support business in providing client delight in terms of optimal supply of service and end user satisfaction;
  • Providing “Best Practice” procurement processes to increase efficiency; and  
  • Supporting and upholding a team culture of engagement.  
  • Achieve transformation goals and objectives.

Qualification and Experience

• BTech / Bsc Quantity Surveying or BComm qualification or equivalent with any other relevant post graduate qualifications
• Member of a recognised professional body within Procurement (CIPS), Built Environment (CEASA, SAFMA) and/or Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Minimum of 10 years practical experience in procurement and/or supply chain environment in financial services industry or Built Environments/ Facilities Management (Hard and Soft services, Capital projects) etc.
• Experience with Procurement transformation projects 
• Experience in sourcing, contracting and supplier management across multiple spend sub-categories within Facilities Management
• Experience in the development and implementation of procurement policies, processes and benchmarking
• International experience on Procurement Facilities Management projects will be advantageous.

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent ability to interact and work cross functionally within the organization  
• Strong planning and organizing skills    
• Problem solving skills   
• Project and Change management skills     
• Ability to perform under pressure and deadlines  
• Presentation skills and excellent communication skills
• Strong negotiating skills and ability to drive and achieve results  
• Team leadership skills
• Commercial and business acumen
• Vendor management 

Core Competencies

About The Company

Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.   

Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centred on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. We’re about people. People drive our business, so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.   

At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as an employment equity goals, we give preference to applicants key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions the demographics of our society. In achieving our Employment Equity targets.