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Job Description

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The key purpose of the implementation Lead is to act as a point of contact towards the internal customer for Procurement related questions, manage local purchasing requests in collaboration with the sourcing and category management organization and guarantees efficient contract implementation and acceptance on site, related to one or several sites across Zambia.

Responsibilities

• Manage local purchase requisitions according to defined strategies and frameworks.
• Stakeholder management, data collection and implementation and execution of Procurement related activities in support of the Zone Indirects Team.
• Facilitate Source to Pay training where required in country, ensure adherence to the policy, investigate and comment weekly and monthly on Source to Pay KPI’s.
• Ensure all contracts negotiated by the Zone Indirects Team are updated in SAP / Ariba / Ibis and that pricing is up to date and correct. Ensure all Outline Agreements and rate cards are shared with the RPSS team.
• Investigate supplier payment queries on a monthly basis and resolve issues to ensure prompt payment to suppliers.
• Drive the achievement of Source to Pay automation targets.
• Verify purchase request quality and correct buying channel, align with end users on missing specification, check e-sourcing feasibility.
• Support end user with assisted buying including educating the user on buying channels
• Facilitate, manage and escalate (where appropriate) queries and issues to appropriate stakeholders and interfaces (global or regional) according to collaboration models.
• Accountable for monthly variance and investigation.
• Establish local remediation plans to ensure ZBB budget compliance.
• Support collection and analysis of country ZBB and WAPT analytics.
• Point of contact for plant and depot ZBB queries on the Procurement 5 packs across Uganda.
• Drive select sourcing projects in support of the ZBB sourcing agenda

Requirements

• Academic background: University/Bachelor’s degree, preferably in commerce or Quantitative Economics or Procurement other relevant discipline; or a relevant combination of formal qualifications and additional specialized study; a recognized qualification in procurement would be considered an asset.
• Experience: Experience within procurement is preferable however not a requirement, minimum 3 years work experience.
• Language skills: Proficiency in English essential.
• Stakeholder management and engagement.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to conceptualize business impact focused analytics.
• Communicating effectively by conveying information and ideas in English, in a clear, meaningful, and timely manner, providing information to ensure understanding; solicit inputs and provide open candid conversations.
• Developing collaborative relationships for the purpose of accomplishing work objectives; developing relationships with other individuals by listening, sharing ideas, and appreciating others’ efforts.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders.
• Languages: English and Local language (if applied) as the working language, other languages are an advantage.
• Strong People skills.
• Analytical mindset driving improvements to processes.

Additional Information

• Band VII
• SAB/ABInBev is an equal opportunity employer and all appointments will be made in line with SAB/ABInBev employment equity plan and talent requirements.
• The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing.