Category Manager: Sugar & Juice

CCBA is the largest African Coca-Cola bottler, accounting for 40% of all Coca-Cola volumes on the continent. CCBA is a Non Alcoholic Ready to Drink (NARTD) market leader with an extensive footprint in Africa, employing over 17 000 employees and serving a combined population of over 300 million people across the continent. CCBA’s vision is to “refresh Africa every day and make the continent a better place for all”, growing successfully as a business and creating a better shared future for our people, customers, consumers, communities, planet and shareholders. We conduct ourselves with the utmost integrity for shared value and the greater good. We are a world class, customer-orientated, socially and environmentally conscious fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company that is driven by engaged, motivated and inspired employees.

This role involves serving as a crucial CCBA extended team member and actively engaging to identify “Best in Class” practices, leading negotiations with internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring the implementation and monitoring of performance for negotiated outcomes and supply agreements, while also facilitating conformance to strategies within CCBA countries.

Develop and implement sustainable category strategies and objectives over the medium to long term.

Formulate a 3 year value creation strategy and action plans for competitive advantage projects, ensuring alignment and implementation by internal and external stakeholders.

Undertake situational analysis to incorporate country and commodity-specific requirements into category strategies.

Develop CCBA Go-To-Market and negotiation strategies for specific categories, ensuring proper documentation.

Lead negotiations with internal and external stakeholders, assuming accountability for sourcing decisions.

Utilise procurement power through consolidation and standardisation across countries.

Lead end-to-end Supplier Relationship Management programs, ensuring adherence to contractual obligations and key performance indicators.

Ensure suppliers meet The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) requirements and comply with audits and protocols.

Drive corrective action for suppliers failing to meet quality and performance standards.

Track and manage agreed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for categories, developing correction strategies.

Drive standardisation, volume aggregation, and process controls for value creation.

Develop benchmarks and scorecards for categories, comparing them to global benchmarks for continuous improvement.

Track global pricing and capacity trends, monitor currency impact and inflation, and proactively engage with Country Procurement and Finance Managers.

Ensure a sound understanding of cost drivers in categories.

Collaborate with Finance teams to expedite receiving and AP processes, serving as an escalation point for problem resolution in the Purchase-to-Pay process.

Skills:

Negotiation and Influence: Skilled in leading negotiations and influencing internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment with objectives, and making informed sourcing decisions.

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM): Expertise in managing and nurturing supplier relationships, ensuring compliance with contracts, and driving performance improvements through effective engagement and communication.

Analytical Skills: The capacity to analyse cost drivers, track KPIs, monitor pricing trends, and assess supplier performance to inform decisions and identify areas for continuous improvement.

Project Management: Ability to manage end-to-end processes, from developing action plans to ensuring implementation, coordinating resources, and tracking progress to achieve strategic goals.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Skilled in working collaboratively with teams such as Finance, Procurement, and internal business units, facilitating smooth operations, resolving issues, and ensuring alignment across functions.

Degree in Supply Chain / Engineering / Finance Added advantage: Master’s degree.

Experience:

8+ years of business experience of which 5 years minimum is required in Strategic and operational Procurement within an FMCG environment.

Minimum of 3 years Sugar and Juice purchasing experience.

Management reserves the right to use additional or relevant information as criteria for short-listing

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