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Main purpose of the job:
To serve as a member of the Regional Procurement Hub within the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Commercial Directorate. This role involves collaborating with customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders on all aspects of procurement delivery, review, monitoring, and reporting.
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Commercial is responsible for acquiring all goods and services needed by the organization, whether purchased in the UK or at one of our 260 global office locations. This includes managing high-value procurement activities and creating and implementing policies and procedures for other acquisitions.
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office has a regional structure for Finance, Procurement, and HR across the entire network. This approach achieves cost reductions and global expenditure savings while maintaining high-quality standards by reforming procurement management practices across the network.
The Procurement Operating Model requires procurement expertise within the regional organizational structure. It aims to provide expert services to a global network of locations while ensuring efficient delivery on behalf of multiple sites and maintaining connections with the central procurement function in the UK. Procurement acts as a delivery partner to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, offering advice and expertise throughout the procurement lifecycle and sharing responsibility for the successful execution of larger procurement projects.
The Regional Procurement Manager will support the Regional Procurement Hub in delivering procurement services across the regional network of office locations. This role involves delivering regional procurement projects, ensuring procurement processes operate smoothly and consistently within the region, and building relationships with key regional stakeholders and suppliers.
Regional Procurement Manager will lead the day-to-day relationship with the Africa Network, forecast requirements for goods and services across category areas, develop category strategies, and research suppliers who can help the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office meet its value for money objective.
The Regional Procurement Manager will work closely with a wide variety of internal customers to identify, specify, and deliver against Post and Regional requirements for the full range of goods and services in all Category Areas.
They will be responsible for managing the day-to-day Regional Procurement activity in the Africa Network, supporting the Regional Procurement Hub in delivering the regional strategy and targets for the region.
The Regional Procurement Hub team, and line manager of the role, is based in Pretoria. The role has no managerial duties to the local Posts.
Essential qualifications, skills and experience
- A minimum of 6 years procurement experience across various industries with 4 years in Strategic Sourcing.
- Contract Management Experience
- Degree/qualification in Procurement, Business, Supply Chain or similar
- Ability to work under pressure with minimal supervision
Desirable qualifications, skills and experience
- To be enrolled with CIPS (or an equivalent qualification) and actively studying towards MCIPS or higher
- As a minimum, the applicant must have advance Microsoft Excel/MS Office suite experience
- Experience of working in a multinational environment across multiple time zones
- Project Management experience
- Experience in using eSouring platforms/tools
