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Senior Category Lead at

3 months ago

Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya Q-Sourcing Servtec Group Full time

Q-Sourcing Servtec Group is a global management consulting firm that helps people make significant improvements to their business performance and realize their most important career goals.

Job Summary

The Senior Category Lead is a strategic role responsible for overseeing and managing specific category of spend for goods and services within the organization.

They play a critical role in driving category strategies, optimizing supplier relationships, and achieving cost savings while ensuring quality, innovation, and sustainability.

Reporting to the Contracts & Procurement Lead, the role holders will be expected to ensure the successful implementation of centralized category procurement initiatives across the various Company Group entities.

The role shall work closely with Unit procurement teams and end users to define and execute effective category strategies that will support both the short- and long-term business objectives.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Develop and execute sourcing strategies and category plans to meet RG objectives
Manage the end-to-end sourcing, tendering, evaluations and contracting activities for assigned categories
Design and implement category procurement transformation plans
Forecasting and planning for requirements within assigned categories
Work with end users to define scopes of requirements

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their requirements, address their needs, and ensure effective communication and engagement throughout the category management process.

Championing and actively driving cost reductions and avoidance opportunities
Optimizing inventory in order to minimize working capital as well as holding costs
Negotiating contracts terms for best commercial outcomes for RG
Drafting contracts, with support of legal department, and issuance of amendments and change orders
Supplier performance management for suppliers withing their respective areas

Monitor category performance metrics, KPIs, and financial targets to track progress, identify areas for improvement, and drive continuous performance optimization.

Prepare regular reports, presentations, and dashboards to communicate category performance and insights to key stakeholders and senior management.

Identify and mitigate risks related to supplier performance, supply chain disruptions, regulatory compliance, and other factors impacting the category.

Ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and internal policies governing procurement, sourcing, and supplier management activities.
Data extraction and analysis in order to make recommendations for strategic sourcing and decision making
Build organizational capacity through training and development to end users and procurement staff
Establishing and maintaining stakeholder relationships internally with key user departments and management and externally with suppliers and contractors

Minimum, Qualifications and Skills

A Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management or Business-related field
Technical / Engineering background and or experience is an added advantage
8+ years practical experience in Procurement and Supply Chain with 5 years in strategic sourcing and category procurement
CIPS or similar qualifications is an added advantage
Project Management skills and experience is an added advantage
Analytical certifications will be an added advantage
Strong background and understanding of strategic sourcing and category procurement in FMCG sectors
Previous experience in managing different categories of spend; both technical and non-technical, direct and indirect
Understanding of contract terms and experience in drafting contracts
Procurement negotiations
Contracts management pre and post award
Good data analytics with strategic thinking
Strong people, persuasion and influencing skills at all levels
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Sound ethics and integrity
Results driven, self-starter, takes initiative and able to work independently to drive activities to completion
Proficient in MS Office
Experience in SAP ERP module