Position: Sourcing Manager 
Job Grade: AVP
Reporting to: Head of Shared Services
Location: Head office, Dar es Salaam

Principal Accountability:

To work across all business units in order to maximise stakeholder satisfaction by ensuring sustainable savings are achieved through the effective category and commodity management. To apply “Best in class” sourcing practices and drive value aligned to effective negotiations and contract management.

Main Responsibilities: 

• Develop commodity strategies, category plans and commercial solutions signed to “best in doss” business drivers for delivering specific components thereof.
• Develop a fact-base to appropriately understand market analytics and category dynamics, these include Total Cost of Ownership (TOO) models, comparative analysis, spend analysis, trend analysis, risk analysis, benchmarking etc
• Develop comprehensive business cases in order to support strategies for approval by senior stakeholders such as Head of Human Resources, Head of Marketing, Head of Cash Management and Head of IT
• Work with the identified business area to embed and ensure compliance with the Group Sourcing SSMP policy as reported in the CAB decks for that business area each month
• Produce innovative solutions through effective research ensuring Business Continuity Management (BCM) is guaranteed
• Review, Revise and Re-engineer processes in order to eradicate waste and maximise throughput
• Assist businesses in the delivery of commercial and contractual elements through commercial negotiations, leading to awarding contracts. Ensure all financial risk, strategic and commercial considerations are optimised through the use of due diligence checks, best in dass strategies and general market knowledge
• Ensure sustainable savings by identifying opportunities and delivering benefits against al targets through effective cost reduction, cost avoidance, and revenue generation opportunities
• Introduce Value Add and Value Engineering (VAVE) initiatives that will contribute to savings and maximise value
• Report on performance against targets for benefits realisation by extraction of data through Ml
• Devise methods to optimise processes and eradicate waste in order to drive value throughout the supply chain
• Introduce innovation that will add strategic benefit through mutual relationships and synergies by working with the internal customer (business units) and third-party suppliers
• To support the organization in achieving its strategic objectives by interpreting
• attention to details but also the ability to see the implication of the bigger picture
• Project management
• Decision making
• Ability to lead and manage teams and projects
• Coaching skills
• Negotiation
• Report writing skills 

Remuneration: Attractive salary

How to Apply

Applicants are invited to submit their CVs, copies of certificates, 2 referees and their contacts to;
Human Resourcing
Human Resource Department
National Bank of Commerce (NBC)
HRResourcing@nbc.co.tz

If you are not contacted by NBC within thirty (30) days after the dosing date, you should consider your application as unsuccessful. Please send al applications before 24th October 2018
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