Procurement Lead

Job Description:

At Trouw Nutrition, we are passionate about Feeding the Future. As part of Nutreco, a global leader in animal nutrition, we work to provide sustainable and innovative solutions that support farmers and food producers around the world.

We are looking for a commercially minded Procurement Lead to lead inbound procurement activities, drive strategic sourcing decisions, and help grow our commodity trading capability in South Africa and the broader SADC region. This is a high-impact leadership role that combines procurement, trading, pricing, and people leadership.

What You'll Do
As Procurement Lead, you will be responsible for ensuring the efficient supply of imported products and raw materials while strengthening procurement performance across the business. Key responsibilities include:

• Lead inbound procurement activities for feed additives, young animal feeds, amino acids, and other imported products.
• Manage supplier relationships and negotiate contracts with international suppliers.
• Monitor commodity markets, foreign exchange trends, and trading opportunities to support informed purchasing decisions.
• Identify opportunities to improve profitability through strategic sourcing and commodity trading initiatives.
• Work closely with supply chain, demand planning, pricing, manufacturing, sales, and global sourcing teams.
• Drive procurement performance by securing competitive pricing and managing procurement risks.
• Support pricing decisions through market intelligence and cost-price forecasting.
• Lead and develop a small procurement team while providing direction for local procurement activities.
• Ensure accurate procurement planning, inventory management, and supplier performance tracking.

What You Bring
We are looking for a procurement professional who combines strong commercial acumen with leadership capability. You will ideally have:

• At least 5 years of experience in procurement, sourcing, commodity trading, or supply chain management.
• Experience managing international sourcing and supplier negotiations.
• Knowledge of commodity markets, Incoterms, foreign exchange, trading principles, and risk management.
• Experience leading or coaching teams.
• Strong analytical and negotiation skills.
• The ability to build relationships across functions and geographies.
• Experience with ERP systems (M3 experience is advantageous).
• Experience within animal nutrition, feed, agriculture, food manufacturing, or related industries.
• Exposure to pricing strategy and commodity trading.

Ready to Apply?
If you're an experienced procurement professional with a passion for strategic sourcing, commodity markets, and leadership, we'd love to hear from you. Join us and help shape the future of sustainable food production.
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Our organisation:

Trouw Nutrition is the global leader in innovative feed specialties, premixes and nutritional services for the animal nutrition industry. Trouw Nutrition provides species-specific nutritional solutions consisting of feed concepts, products and nutritional know-how. The unique combination of products, models and services Trouw Nutrition offers, boosts productivity and supports animal health through all life stages, contributing to our customers' peace of mind. Trouw Nutrition's nutrition solutions have met the need of farmers and home-mixers, feed producers, integrators and distributors. Trouw Nutrition has locations in 25 countries and around 5000 employees.  Our mission is Feeding the Future.

Equal Opportunity Employer: 

Trouw Nutrition is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, military status or any other status protected by applicable local law. Please advise us at any point during the recruitment and selection process if you require accommodation. Trouw Nutrition is committed to compliance with all applicable legislation, including providing accommodation for applicants with disabilities.