Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, August 17, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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Job Description
Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) presents an exciting opportunity for an experienced Group Supplier Management Specialist, to join the CCBA Growth Office team. The successful applicant will be reporting into the Group Big Data Analytics Lead. Coca-Cola Beverages Africa is the largest African Coca-Cola bottler, accounting for 40 percent of all Coca-Cola volumes on the continent. CCBA is a NARTD market leader in Africa. CCBA has an extensive footprint in Africa, employing over 16.000 employees. CCBA vision is to Refresh Africa every day and make the continent a better place for all, growing successfully as business and creating a better shared future for our people, customers, consumers, communities, planet and shareholders.
The role will contribute to CCBA vision by supporting centrally the evaluation, procurement and management of CCBA suppliers and being the link between markets and suppliers in the new information requirements or adjustments needed to ensure optimal value contributions to the business. The role will be responsible to assess, negotiate and evaluate performance of suppliers to ensure they all work in the best interest of CCBA. Directing these suppliers on best practice data sharing back into our business and facilitating the link between them and BI.

Key Duties & Responsibilities
• Manage centrally the connection with KO and CCBA suppliers of data, research and insights (e.g., Nielsen, GFK and other relevant agencies) ensuring service levels agreements are met, auditing the integrity of information, problem solving and translating business market requirements.
• Understand market context, plans and trends to proactively identify new requirements of information or analysis for Group or countries.
• Be main point of contact of all suppliers ensuring compliance of the contract, service level agreements and company policies.
• Assess and evaluate multiple sourcing of suppliers to determine if their services / deliverables meet CCBA needs and make a recommendation.
• Negotiate contracts and service levels agreements and conduct meetings to inform responsibilities, raise concerns, inquire about their services or negotiate pricing.
• Define standards by which to assess the performance of approved suppliers and evaluate them to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Manage portfolio of data suppliers to ensure optimized value add services and mitigate duplication in same data service offerings.

Skills, Experience & Education
• Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree: Sales, Marketing, Business Management, Engineering.
• Experience: 10+ years of professional experience in Sales, Marketing, Procurement, Supply Chain or IT.
• Proven experience in negotiation, sourcing and performance processes Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to convey technical concepts to other functional areas
• Expertise working with several countries and cultures in the African Market.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to analyze and solve problems quickly.
• Proven background in Customer Service and Customer Relationship Management.
• Strong understanding of surveying techniques and tools and progressive data accumulation practices in the FMCG industry

General
The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional or relevant information as criteria for short-listing.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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