Accountabilities & Responsibility Areas

• Lead the development and execution of sourcing strategies for key categories of items and services, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, cost optimization, and supplier risk management
• Continuously engage with key stakeholders in the organization, including management, operations and finance to ensure up to date and complete knowledge about requirements and specifications for category items and services in line with the company’s overall business strategy
• Continuously stay updated with the market for category items and services and conduct comprehensive market research and analysis to benchmark incumbent suppliers, identify potential new suppliers, evaluate their capabilities, and ensure they meet quality, cost, and performance criteria
• Build and maintain strong, yet independent, relationships with key suppliers, driving strategic partnerships and fostering collaboration to deliver value and innovation across the organization
• Ensuring a productive labour climate in the Procurement function; in case of irregularities immediately report to management
• Leverage procurement technology and digital tools to enhance procurement activities, automate routine processes, and provide data-driven insights into purchasing decisions
• Manage the procurement budget, tracking spend against budgeted targets, identifying areas for cost reduction, and ensuring the achievement of saving goals
• Continuously evaluate sourcing strategies and identify opportunities for cost savings while maintaining or improving quality and service delivery
• Implement performance reviews with suppliers to assess service levels, quality, and cost against agreed terms, and ensure corrective action plans are developed when
• Motivate, organize and encourage teamwork within the workforce to ensure set productivity targets are met
• Ensure the filing of all Procurement related documentation for auditing purposes
• Ensure continuous monitoring of stock for re-ordering
• Communicate all delays or variances to the appropriate parties
• Investigate stock variances, delivery queries, identify and implement possible ways to prevent future variances/queries
• Ensure accurate and on-time purchasing of all products and services as required by the organization
• Expedite PO’s and communicate ETA’s and delays to all relevant parties
• Update min and max levels for ordering to ensure continuous availability of parts
• Source alternative solutions, obtain approval and purchase to ensure continuous supply to the organization
• Enforce Purchasing policies and procedures to ensure good
• Continually investigate opportunities for cost or efficiency savings
• Provide a high level of customer service with industry standard turnaround times for all requests
• Actively support the Company’s Health, Safety, Environment and Quality vision and values by observing safety practices at work while performing his/her duties
• Observing and adhering to safety policies, reporting unsafe acts and hazards

Skills and Qualifications

• Procurement or Supply Chain Qualification or studying towards one
• 5 – 10 years overall experience
• Computer Literate
• Self-motivated, Attention to Detail & Deadline-orientated
• Service orientated – actively seek ways to help people
• Critical thinking skills – identify alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
• Comfortable with Microsoft Excel and procurement software
• Have the ambition to help drive the growth of a young company
• Strong interpersonal, communication and administration skills
• Ability to achieve excellent results working autonomously and/or in a team
• Excellent organisation skills
• Financially literate and disciplined
• Possess a “can-do” attitude always focussing on what “can” be done
• Possess a desire to continually develop, improve and be ambitious
• Be physically fit and able to use the correct lifting technique
• Able and willing to travel to operational sites and suppliers as needed