Standard Chartered Bank (Stanchart) Jobs – Global Sourcing Category Manager

Organisation: Standard
Chartered Bank (Stanchart)
Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda
Job ID: 430396 
About Stanchart:
Standard Chartered PLC is a British multinational banking and financial
services company headquartered in Hong Kong, China. It operates a network of
over 1,700 branches and outlets (including subsidiaries, associates and joint
ventures) across more than 70 countries and employs around 87,000 people. It is
a universal bank with operations in consumer, corporate and institutional
banking, and treasury services. Despite its UK base, it does not conduct retail
banking in the UK, and around 90% of its profits come from Africa, United
Kingdom, United States and the Middle East. Standard Chartered Bank Uganda is
the longest established international bank in the country; the first branch was
opened in August 1912. We had 11 branches up to 1972 and retained only one
branch during the turbulence of the 70s. In 1998 we acquired 4 branches of
former Cooperative Bank in November 1999. Standard Chartered Bank Uganda today
has a network of 11 branches in Kampala, Jinja, Mbale, Mbarara and Gulu.
Standard Chartered Bank Uganda has 29 ATMs and over 600 staff.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Oversight of Procurement that relates to
    Property, Technology and Corporate Services
  • Negotiation with suppliers to ensure that
    the Commercial terms of all contract agreements bank wide have adequately
    covered the bank’s interest and are in line with Group policy.
  • Make sure that the bank gets value for
    money in all contracts and sourcing agreements.
  • Vendor Identification, pre-qualification,
    selection and day to day management
  • To manage and attend to all sourcing and
    purchasing requests to ensure that service providers efficiently deliver
    to specifications
  • To support the business in establishing
    reasonable consumption levels, querying abnormal patterns to ensure costs
    are managed properly.
  • Track Performance of agreed purchase and
    repairs & Maintenance contracts
  • Vendor identification, selection and
    rationalization
  • Negotiating with suppliers and external
    vendors
  • Developing and nurturing good
    relationships with vendors.
  • Tracking and monitoring of performance
    standards of all vendors
  • Facilitate regular interface/
    correspondence with vendors to promote a mutually beneficial relationship
  • Market survey and intelligence
  • Design and provide necessary reports in
    support GS strategy
  • To undertake value add audits for all
    service providers
  • To prepare the operational risk reports
    KCSA, KRI as required
  • Ownership, Management and delivery of all
    Purchasing Requests thereby achieving ordering efficiency and simplicity
    in country
  • Ensure timely maintenance of Bank’s assets
    other than premises/premises equipment
  • Prompt response to repair requests
  • Cost allocation of purchase requests to
    ensure proper capture of costs by cost centers
  • Arrange all procurement and disposal of
    relevant fixed assets, excluding property
  • Implement tendering processes for large
    supplies.
  • Developing strategy to meet the bank
    channels targets
  • Any other task assigned by the Head of GS
  • Money Laundering: Ensure alertness to the
    risk of money laundering by following laid down procedures for vendor
    account opening checks and ensuring adequate documentation
  • Operational Risk: Act as the Reporting
    Officer on Operating Risk reporting
  • To prepare the operational risk reports
    for the unit 
  • Operational Risk Management: Continuously
    maintain robust controls and monitor actions taken.
  • Concise identification of risk including
    analysis of the possible root causes and provide proposal to resolve risk.
  • Controls & Governance: Offer reliable,
    consistent assistance to UORM in developing and updating of procedures,
    controls and monitoring plans for operational risk management.
  • Data Conversion & Reporting:
    Proactively detect and report non compliance and control weaknesses
    inherent in the selected samples.
  • Quality Management: Maintain data
    integrity when conducting KCSA and KRI. 
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
  • The applicant should hold a University
    graduate with at least four  years
    in procurement experience
  • Strong administrative and scheduling
    skills
  • PC skills
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Strong Negotiation skills
  • Good Communication skills
  • High risk awareness
  • Good report writing and presentation
    skills 
NB: Standard Chartered is
committed to diversity and inclusion. We believe that a work environment which
embraces diversity will enable us to get the best out of the broadest spectrum
of people to sustain strong business performance and competitive advantage. By
building an inclusive culture, each employee can develop a sense of belonging,
and have the opportunity to maximise their personal potential.
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