MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Educational Qualifications:
Grade 12 and c
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Educational Qualifications:
Grade 12 plus
- Diploma in Purchasing, Logistics or related fields (NQF 6) or
- Bachelor’s Degree in Purchasing, Logistics or related fields (NQF 7)
Experience:
5+ years’ experience as a Buyer in a Manufacturing environment.
- Experience with Six Sigma and Lean Tools
- Proficient in Excel
- Analytical Skills
- 5+ Years’ experience Negotiation experience
- SAP proficiency
- Intimate understanding of imports, international buying and shipping.
- Experience in managing several projects in a production environment
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY RESULTS AREAS
Key Responsibilities
Purchase goods, materials, components or services in line with specified cost, quality and delivery targets, both local and foreign.
- Ensure continuous supply of required goods and materials and communicate any supply problems which may pose a risk or impact on business operations
- Monitor market trends, competitor strategies and market suppliers
- Research and evaluate areas of opportunity and reduce costs where possible
- Develop ideas and strategies to improve operational efficiency, add value, aid business performance and work towards a strategy of continuous improvement
- Negotiate contracts, improved prices and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings utilising negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods
- Assess and evaluate suppliers and undertake performance reviews to ensure contract compliance and manage performance improvement activities
- Ensure that a professional and consistent approach is taken in relation to all supplier relationships
- Ensure compliance to company guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures during supplier negotiations and contracts award process.
- Explore alternate sources for goods and materials
- Assess tenders and quotations from potential suppliers
- Prepare purchase orders in line with final negotiations with selected suppliers and in line with organisational targets and requirements
- Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, and delivery or invoice issues.
SLA’s and Contracts
Ensures continuous supply of required goods and materials and communicates any supply problems which may pose a risk or impact on business operations.
- Monitors market trends, competitor strategies and market suppliers.
- Researches and evaluates areas of opportunity and reduces costs where possible.
- Assesses and evaluates suppliers, undertakes performance reviews to ensure contract compliance.
- Manages performance improvement activities including the exploration of alternative sources for goods and materials.
Compliance
Operates within controls and procedures in order to ensure total 100% integrity of the procurement processes
- Identifies and reports risks / areas of concern to management within area of responsibility.
- Ensures compliance with all relevant regulations and procedures to prevent fruitless, wasteful and irregular expenditure.
- Ensures compliance with company guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures during contract award and supplier negotiations.
- Ensures and promotes BBBEEE compliance on behalf of AutoX.
Cost and Financial Control
Promotes and communicates the effective, efficient, economical and transparent use of financial and other resources.
- Contributes to the budget preparation process.
- Monitors and controls expenditure against budget and ensures spending occurs within budgetary limits and financial guidelines, report deviations to direct Manager.
- Explores opportunities to control and reduce costs.
Customer Service
Maintains effective working relationships with customers (both internal and external) towards rendering highest quality of services.
- Ensures the professional and consistent approach when building and managing all supplier relationships.
- Represents entity profesionaly in meetings with relevant stakeholders.
- Identifies and solves problems creatively whilst demonstrating a high level of integrity in line with company core values
