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Justus Musyimi CPA,SPM
Summary
Highly successful professional with expertise in developing and implementing procurement and supply strategies within complex and cross-border supply chain operations. Demonstrated ability to deliver cost reduction and improvement initiatives. Hands-on leader with strong expertise in business operations management and strategic sourcing, complemented by excellent knowledge in finance and business. Skilled at building sustainable stakeholder relationships through effective communication. Proven track record in strategically solving problems and delivering improvements in process efficiency and effectiveness.
Overview
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Lesaffre Kenya
Head of Supply Chain and Procurement
01.2025 - Current
Job overview
- Create a visionary procurement service that delivers true commercial performance by mentoring and guiding the team from transactional and process-focused behaviours to a dynamic approach that challenges previous norms, achieving tangible results in tender execution and effective contract management
- Implement a Business Partnering approach, fostering strong, consultative relationships with internal stakeholders to drive commercial outcomes
- Support the ongoing transformation, aligning the procurement function with the organization's broader strategic goals, and contributing to the successful delivery of products
- Responsible for developing and improving the capabilities of business unit operations organization, and deploying and leveraging continuous improvement methodologies, like lean, six sigma, validation and ERP utilization
- Delivering value through engaging stakeholders, rationalizing and aggregating requirements, optimizing the supply chain and ensuring high performance is delivered - engaging with Suppliers in collaborative forecasting, supplier KPI management and continual process improvements within the Supply Chain
- Lead company wide operational excellence
Puzaju Farms Ltd
Head of Supply Chain and Operations
05.2020 - 12.2024
Job overview
- Managed the supply chain function including procurement, demand and supply planning, logistics and warehousing
- Work with Business owners to design strategies which deliver cost-effective sources for products and services under an organized and coordinated approach while ensuring Service Levels agreements
- Manage the Request for Bid process in its entirety, leveraging the Finance framework to identify/vet potential new suppliers, develop location-specific RFBs, analyze bids, conduct supplier interviews, negotiate commercial/ business terms and conditions, execute contracts, and assist with supplier onboarding
- Analysed current and future procurement needs and developed a plan to source vendors and suppliers that focus on leveraging total vendor spending, standardization, and consolidation of the supply base, including the determination and negotiation with the vendor and the SLAs
- Boosted KPIs and continuous improvement strategies to enhance logistical operations and meet supply chain needs
- Determined inventory goals, product stock and risk management objectives and oversaw techniques to maximize inventory
- Develop, implement, and monitor day-to-day operational systems and processes to provide visibility into the goals, progress, and obstacles of key initiatives
Toyota Kenya
Head of Procurement
08.2018 - 04.2020
Job overview
- Manged and continuously reviewed the P2P end to end process to ensure supply, enhance compliance and deliver a competitive advantage to the business
- Established and managed an agile procurement function that is responsive to business needs
- Developed and implement a companywide purchasing strategy
- Delivered cost savings (KES 200m) and efficiency benefits including improved supplier performance, SLA adherence scores, improved quality of service and total cost of performance along with risk management
- Established a proper Business partnering model with business units and maintained strong working relationships to gain buy-in and engagement with the key stakeholders
- Challenged, enhanced and standardized existing procurement practices across all business units to ensure conformity of approach, generate economies of scale and deliver better value for money
- Established a category approach to sourcing to ensure the procurement resources align with all operational and functional business areas across the company
- Build superior supplier relationship management capability within the team and through continuous business improvement
- Implemented an e-procurement system (synertrade) and data strategy; implemented new tools to support the function and the wider business
British Council
Regional Procurement Manager
08.2015 - 07.2018
Job overview
- Established a regional procurement team in the fast paced Corporate, projects & Capital Procurement team, managing a total annual addressable spend of £30m
- Established cross-functional team that exceeded benchmarked order management metrics and reduced average purchasing cycle times time year-over-year
- Established strong business partnering with senior stakeholders from specialist departments, evaluating business requirements to identify opportunities to more efficiently meet their needs and deliver on cost improvement plans of £1m per annum
- Managed the procurement function to deliver sustainable value for money to the council across 19 countries with enhanced compliance to the council's procurement policy
- Achieved a 6,624 reduction in active vendors through a robust Vendor Master data clean up exercise and implemented a preferred supplier list across SSA, with 66 suppliers recruited into the preferred supplier list across various categories
- Implemented e-procurement (use of In-Tend as an online tendering tool 125 online tenders valued at £ 25m done through the system
- Implemented use of In-Tend as a contract management tool including e-signature, e-repository and e-authoring replacing offline excel based contract registers
- Standardized and updated the procurement Policy for each of 19 countries reflecting the current operating environment in each country and congruent with the global policy
- Developed and implemented a regional Travel strategy to reduce the number of Travel management companies from 37 to 1 and deliver a cost saving of £ 200,000 in addition to higher efficiencies
Nestle EAR Ltd
Regional Procurement Manager, Raw Materials
09.2014 - 07.2015
Job overview
- Managed raw material buying for 4 factories (Angola, Kenya, and Zimbabwe & DRC) covering an annual addressable Spend 60 million Swiss Francs ensuring best cost origin sourcing to deliver a competitive advantage to Nestle
- Developed and implemented category strategies of raw materials for all the 12 categories of raw materials (covering 123 raw materials) to deliver sustainable value and a competitive advantage to all the 21 countries across all businesses using the 7 Step strategic sourcing model
- Partnered with global category managers for materials like Vitamin, Palm oil, Milk etc by feeding into the global strategies and ensuring that such strategies are congruent with the operating environment in the Equatorial Africa region
- Managed the sourcing cycle from demand analysis, supply market analysis, supplier selection, strategy definition to contract negotiation and supplier relationship management
- Delivered 750k Swiss francs saving through the implementation of the sourcing strategies such as Best cost origin sourcing techniques
- Ran supplier relation management plans to ensure effective execution of developed strategies through regular performance reviews with clear action plans where there are issues as well as manage innovations
- Established Effective Business Partnering, Aligned with various Strategic Business Units and functions to ensure that Procurement supports the strategic initiatives under the guise of working for the business with the business
- Developed rolling sourcing plans through a deep analysis of requirements, existing contracts, and opportunities for consolidation of spend to identify high priority categories in line with the business objectives and master plan
- Ran 4 margin management projects across four key products delivering a 21% improvement in gross margins for infant cereals and coffee creamer
- Developed back up suppliers as a risk mitigation strategy through robust supplier development initiatives for key raw materials such as wheat, sugar, Palm oil, corn flour among others
- Drove the Responsible sourcing Compliance for Nestle's Raw material Suppliers and ensured 90% traceability of key raw materials such as Palm oil
- Successfully managed a team of operational buyers in the factories and developed tactical buyers towards strategic buyers through mentoring and coaching using the everyday coaching model
Nestle EAR Ltd
Regional Procurement Excellence Manager
10.2013 - 08.2014
Job overview
- Implemented e-sourcing and e-contracting within to deliver a competitive advantage to the business
- Implement cost saving reporting framework through I-nexus ensuring all cost improvements are tracked in a timely manner
- Ensured Compliance Across the procurement function according to the Nestle Procurement Policy and the 7 Nestle's Procurement Best Practices ensuring 90% NSAT compliance scores
- Drove Nestle's Responsible Sourcing program and ensure compliance to the Nestle supplier code and responsible sourcing guidelines
- Drove working capital management through Payment terms improvement, payables management and reverse factoring and Raw and pack materials inventory optimization
Education
University of Nairobi
Bachelor of Commerce from Finance
12.2018
Leoron Institute
Strategic Procurement Master (SPM)
11.2018
Nestle Procurement University
Strategic Sourcing Cutting Edge Negotiation from Procurement Driving License
07.2014
KASNEB- Strathmore University
Certified Public Accountant
12.2008
Skills
- Operational Excellence
- Strategic Sourcing
- Category Management
- Kaizen
- Negotiation
- Structured problem solving
- Supply chain optimization
- Creative team leadership
Timeline
Head of Supply Chain and Procurement
Lesaffre Kenya
01.2025 - Current
Head of Supply Chain and Operations
Puzaju Farms Ltd
05.2020 - 12.2024
Head of Procurement
Toyota Kenya
08.2018 - 04.2020
Regional Procurement Manager
British Council
08.2015 - 07.2018
Regional Procurement Manager, Raw Materials
Nestle EAR Ltd
09.2014 - 07.2015
Regional Procurement Excellence Manager
Nestle EAR Ltd
10.2013 - 08.2014
Nestle Procurement University
Strategic Sourcing Cutting Edge Negotiation from Procurement Driving License
KASNEB- Strathmore University
Certified Public Accountant
University of Nairobi
Bachelor of Commerce from Finance
Leoron Institute
Strategic Procurement Master (SPM)
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