Category Manager

Overview

To provide leadership in strategic global sourcing to deliver the fintech roadmap. By working with cross functional teams, you will be influencing, negotiating, building consensus and making key strategic vendor decisions across all layers of the organization. You will be responsible for developing, implementing and managing sourcing category strategies and formulate procurement plans to facilitate achievement the M-Pesa roadmap.

Responsibilities

As a Procurement lead your main responsibilities will include:

• Team leadership and stakeholder management across various teams in the organisation
• Serve as lead negotiator in in tandem with our Business Units, Legal, Policy, and Tax teams to execute supplier contracts.
• Manage sourcing activities. This includes definition of user requirements, analysing spends, supply market analysis, contract analysis and bid to ensure a seamless and timely tendering process.
• Establish group partnerships to deepen value creation across the markets by building and maintaining effective relationship with suppliers.
• Accountable for socializing supplier strategy with senior business decision makers by aligning overall M-Pesa value proposition with that of the suppliers to ensure an increase in M-Pesa’s share of value.
• Align business functions priorities with supplier strategy and compliment by building proactive procurement plans that fully consider short- and long-term goals to facilitate the business functions meet their revenue targets.
• Lead supplier performance and roadmap reviews along with business functions to shape the supplier plans that are competitive

Additional education

• Bachelor’s degree in Procurement or Engineering, Economics or equivalent practical experience

Experience

Additional experience

• 5+ years of experience in a similar role
• Experience in working in a telecommunication service provider/Fintech organisation in emerging markets.

Additional skills

• Team leadership skills.
• Experience in negotiating complex agreements within a telecommunication/fintech space.
• Knowledge of stakeholder’s management
• Creative approach to solving unclear multi-stakeholder challenges.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, solve complex problems and scale effectively across a highly distributed organisation.
• Acute attention to detail with a high level of data integrity and accuracy.
• Strong oral and written communication with the ability to provide clear and concise information and/or instructions to end users.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with people at all levels of the organization.
• Proficient computer skills including Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint along with various other online applications.

Terms and conditions

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, please send your resume with your cell phone contact indicating your experience and why you are the most suitable candidate for the role, clearly quoting the job title and job reference to the address below before 3rd march 2023

info@techsavanna.technology