PG Bison, a proudly South African leader in the decorative wood panel industry, is seeking a motivated and experienced procurement operations manager to join its procurement department at the Boksburg site. The successful candidate will drive procurement technology, process excellence, supplier and contract management, cost savings, compliance, and digital transformation across the organisation.

Accountable for the procurement technology and digital roadmap by:

• Developing and owning the procurement technology roadmap, aligned to the KAP Group and PG Bison IT strategy.
• Leading the selection, implementation and adoption of procurement tools, including the contract management hub, e-catalogues, P2P and data process mining.
• Acting as a business owner for the integration of these tools with ERP, working with IT on requirements, testing and go-live.
• Building business cases and tracking benefits realisation for each technology investment

Accountable for source-to-pay process excellence by:

• Owning end-to-end source-to-pay process design, standards and SOPs across all sites.
• Using software systems to identify and remove inefficiencies, including import & export POs, maverick spend, rework, price changes, late payments and manual touches.
• Driving automation of transactional activity

Accountable for contract management and governance by:

• Ensuring contracts negotiated by Category Managers are loaded, linked to catalogues and pricing, and actively managed.

Accountable for catalogues and guided buying by:

• Implementation of catalogue systems
• Increasing spend through catalogues for MRO consumables and repeat items.
• Ensuring catalogue pricing matches contracted terms and enabling suppliers on catalogues, portals and e-invoicing

Accountable for master data, spend analytics and reporting by:

• Governing supplier and material master data quality, building on standardisation programmes.
• Building and maintaining spend cubes, dashboards and procurement KPIs.
• Tracking and reporting savings in line with the KAP Group Procurement Benefits framework.
• Delivering briefs, updates and reports to the Head of Procurement and Exco as required.

Accountable for compliance, risk and controls by:

• Embedding purchasing policy, delegation of authority and segregation of duties in procurement systems, including automation bots.
• Managing supplier onboarding and verification, including B-BBEE, tax, banking and fraud checks.
• Supporting internal and external audits and ensuring data handling complies with POPIA.

Accountable for people development and change management by:

• Building a super-user network across the Boksburg, Ugie, Piet Retief (PRF) and NECF sites.
• Training buyers, procurement administrators and requisitioners on new tools and processes.
• Measuring and driving system adoption across all sites.

Mentoring and coaching the team to enhance their career and professional development.

• A relevant business/commercial or manufacturing/engineering degree is preferred.
• B-Tec Higher Professional Degree, or equivalent NQF Level 7 qualifications.
• BCom in Supply Chain.
• Minimum 5 to 10 years’ experience in a senior procurement or finance or supply chain function.
• Proven purchasing experience, preferably within a procurement or manufacturing environment.
• Ability to add value, reduce costs and make business improvements.
• Contract management and supplier experience.
• Computer literate and high level of Microsoft Excel proficiency.
• Well-spoken and an excellent communicator with a high level of English communication proficiency.
• Strong negotiation, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Dynamic individual with an ability to work in a highly pressurised environment.
• Analytical thinker and attention to detail.