Commercial Manager

Essential that you have 10 years of experience in a commercial role in a manufacturing environment with a minimum of 5 years in a Supervisory/Managerial position. Responsibilities include Sales, Logistics, Inventory and Materials Management and Cost Accounting.

Essential Qualifications, Experience and Skills:

• Financial Degree / Diploma or equivalent
• 10 years in a commercial role in a manufacturing environment with
• Minimum of 5 years in Supervisory/Managerial experience
• Proficient in MS office suite and JDE would be advantageous
• Aligns performs for success
• Strategic decision maker
• Innovative
• Customer focused
• Sets standards for excellence
• Continuous learner and can build a successful team

Key Result Areas:

• Agreements are reviewed as and when required with the legal department
• Standard commercial terms of all trade contracts are reviewed
• Regular interface of business processes with finance, debtors, creditors, exports and PR
• Potential risks within the company are identified together with the Internal Audit department
• Regular asset management
• Management Accounts, financial analysis and Business results are managed
• Annual budgets are prepared (Income statement, Balance Sheet & Cash flow including Sales, Capex, raw Materials, Staff costs, Opex)
• Monthly Balance Sheet review
• Interdivisional Clearing, Job Costing and Provisions and other sub-system reconciliations
• Assist in preparation of capital justification projects & ensure CAPEX expenditure is in line
• Preparation, review and presentation of monthly management reports (Mancom, Finex, Exco)
• Perform business analysis and reporting of sales, Capex, key indicators & age analysis
• Manage and report actual Capex spend vs. Budget and Asset register verification and maintenance
• Reporting of Labour and overhead recoveries and investigation of over/under recoveries
• Report on scrap, rectification costs, overruns and slow-moving stock
• Manage and maintain JDE role security per user
• Company HR and Disciplinary policy is adhered to