The Position is at the level of the group and therefore is at the senior Management level, accordingly the purpose and critical functions would be as follows:

Function Purpose:

To provide reliable, consistent, and cost-effective services

Role Purpose:

To ensure and enable responsiveness in service delivery

The Key Expectations of the Role:

• To design and optimize processes, policies, and practices for responsiveness.
• To ensure cost-effectiveness
• To build and sustain a responsive and technically competent team
• Decentralised (evidence based) decision making environment

The Competencies required to effectively take on this role:

• Thorough knowledge of procurement practices
• Skills in managing group level function with sensitivity to need variations in different businesses
• Resourceful while performing tasks
• Contingency orientation in design of system and processes
• Person with high service orientation without looking for external gratification/motivation
• Sensitivity to evidence-based-change of hypothesis*

The Person:

• Any graduate or diploma
• Overall work-experience of at least 15 years in a medium-sized organization in a commercial function dealing with common services of the organisation
• Person looking for a challenging experience