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Procurement Director: Ingredients Jobs in Cape Town, South Africa at PepsiCo

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Procurement Director – Ingredients

Location – Cape Town, South Africa

Pepsi Co products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Pepsi Co generated more than $90 billion in net revenue in 2025, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and Soda Stream. Pepsi Co’s product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

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Purpose:

This role will be responsible for the procurement of Ingredients across South Africa Operating Unit.

Highly complex and scattered portfolio for supplier management, stakeholder management and materials management. This leader manages 60% of total materials with high risk of out of stock. Responsible to cover all 38 sites as well as JV’s, requiring High caliber profile to strategically manage supplier relationship and cost reduction. This individual to handle Monopoly, Govt. owned, local & several international suppliers.

Accountable to contract >200 suppliers, >30 crops and sourcing from more than 20 origin countries. Category include (but not limited to):

– Beverages, Concentrate, pastes, fruits and future life ingredients

– Foods, Sugar, Vinegar, Chemicals, Vitamins

– Grains & Bakeries:
Premixes, Yeast

– Snacks:
Oils, Nut, Seeds

– Botswana:
Sorghum, Sugar, Others

– Future life:
All Ingredients for bars & cereals

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible to build and/or align category strategies across businesses for high impact categories for SA business, individually and directly managing 60% of Ingredients spend/size/scale, while empowering and supporting category team to execute those strategies across sites.
  • Single owner of keeping track of commodity movements with “so what” approach, monitor crop cycles, parity modelling & arbitrage options across key ingredients (Sugar, Molasses, Oils, Concentrates, Premixes, Vinegar etc.), enabling business for weekly / monthly mandates, category teams for booking & execution actions, finance teams to optimally build in bi-weekly/monthly PFX and annual AOP assumption to reflect in P&L correctly
  • Lead supply dispute resolution and litigation actions to resolve and realize due benefit for the organization. This individual plays critical role in complex business environment, to ensure ethical and timely decision with all cross-functional engagement/alignment. Present Pepsi Co in several South Africa associations, organizations and forums to gather necessary insights across ingredients commodities (regulations, bans, court cases, duties, exemptions, quotas, concessions, parity etc.).
  • Transformational leadership, with tough business discussions to explore and persuade alternate suppliers & materials, to systematically prioritize and reduce risk in highly single-sourced ingredients categories (>60% materials single sourced).
  • Key enabler of transformation for profitability, productivity and cash-flow delivery;
    Create, design & lead “Deep dive forums with stakeholders”, “roadshows with suppliers”, “Value engineering with R&D” and/or “leverage and benchmark connects with COE’s”
  • Analyse & understand supply market dynamics to drive next-gen negotiation levers in Ingredients:
    Be it Should-cost, TCO, eAuctions, Supply Chain Financing & Tolling models
  • 100% end-to-end ownership of Seasonings and Flavors category directly
  • Lead and drive Pep+ glidepath and scope 2 & 3 deliverables across all ingredients categories, including oils & seasonings
  • Ownership of strategic top-to-top supplier connects;
    1) to leverage new supply models
    2) realize productivity proactively
    3) Elevate relationship to proactively understand challenges/solutions, to pre-empt day-to-day issues at site level
  • Key procurement lead to join Pepsi Co South Africa Growth journey (Different work streams) and actively participating in transformational initiatives ( M&A, manufacturing footprint, path-to-profitability, BCG and divestures) to ensure
    1) early resolve for write-offs
    2) supply…

    • Title: Procurement Director: Ingredients

    Company: PepsiCo

    Location: Cape Town, South Africa

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