Africa Procurement Lead

As an Africa Procurement Lead with our FMCG client in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, you will play a crucial role in formulating, developing, and executing policies and procedures to ensure a consistent approach to sourcing, purchasing, and tendering activities within the business. Working closely with Country Operations and Technical teams, you will contribute to the formulation of best practices aimed at reducing costs, mitigating risks, and enhancing procurement efficiency across different countries in Africa. Your responsibilities will involve reviewing and recommending cost-saving and optimization initiatives, making key decisions on large value purchases, and consolidating group orders for better negotiation and pricing. You will be responsible for gathering market intelligence, preparing presentations for strategy updates, overseeing all RFI's, RFQ's, and RFP's, and ensuring compliance with the company's guidelines. Additionally, you will manage supplier performance evaluations, collaborate with the Ops division to identify new suppliers and assess their performance, track and ensure compliance with contracts, and develop supply chain effectiveness metrics for regular reporting. Your role will require a minimum of 15 years of business experience, including 5 years in a similar procurement role within a manufacturing company. A Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or Business is required, with a preference for a Master's Degree. To excel in this role, you should possess strong project management skills, experience in end-to-end procurement strategy implementation, and the ability to collaborate effectively across a matrix organization. Your traits should include being meticulous, analytical, a seamless collaborator, a convincing negotiator, and having a high emotional quotient in managing stakeholder expectations. Strong communication, stakeholder management, and experience in the Food FMCG or similar industry are essential, along with a sense of urgency, high energy, and self-motivation. Proficiency in SAP and Ariba, as well as experience working across multiple geographies, will be beneficial in fulfilling the responsibilities of this role. If you are looking to make a significant impact in the procurement function of a dynamic FMCG company in Africa, this position offers a challenging and rewarding opportunity to drive procurement excellence and contribute to the organization's success.,