Aspen Careers – Project Manager

Job Description:

To support and manage activities as directed by the Procurement Head (in India) to develop sustainable, robust and cost-efficient procurement processes whilst implementing cost savings initiatives contributing to an effective supply chain.

Job Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance to BBBEE in South Africa e.g. vendor management process and qualification of vendors.
• Facilitate, track and support procurement strategies under the management of the Procurement
• Head (based in India) aimed at optimizing cost and material availability/ supplier reliability with relevant procurement category councils and the procurement nerve centre.
• Ensure that all new contracts are reviewed by the responsible legal counsel with relevant input from the Group Strategic Manufacturing: Support Services, category councils, support SME’s (e.g. regulatory, quality and compliance) with a final endorsement from the procurement nerve centre.
• Facilitate and support category councils on procurement benchmarking to ensure best price across all categories.
• Review supplier base on a continual basis to enable identification of risk to supply and to introduce mitigation plans.
• Review cost drivers to enable optimised cost of goods at all times.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 15 years of overall required experience
• Bachelor’s degree/ diploma preferred, ideally in Commerce, Engineering or Project management
• Project management experience preferable
• 10 years of Pharmaceutical, FMCG or chemical industry experience with knowledge of cross functional activities

Job Details:

Company: Aspen Pharma

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Durban

Application Deadline: N/A

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