Responsibilities and Duties

• Secure overall good supplier relationship through conducting Business Review Meetings Quarterly.
• Monitor market and technology developments and address changes through defined purchasing strategies.
• Close monitoring of supplier performance and take corrective actions where needed. 
• Work closely with internal stakeholders and suppliers, to secure the project deliveries on QDCFTSR for both start-up projects and maintenance projects. 
• Drive continuously on cost improvement activities. Generate cost savings through creativities and cross functional workshops, including engineering, logistics and plant. 
• Drive and achieve the target on MCL/MCE, Delivery Precision, Contract Coverage, Local Content Requirements, BBBEE performance. 
• Track raw material price trends for price adjustment with suppliers. 
• Support to improve the customer focus by jointly solving the quality issues; improve PPM/QPM and QJ lead-time. 
• Conduct Buyer network meetings with Buyers working on similar portfolio in regular intervals. 

Minimum qualifications and experience

• University degree in Industrial, Mechanical Engineering, Logistics or Supply Chain Management
• Previous experience in Purchasing would be an added advantage
• Ability to communicate effectively across all organizational levels.
• Negotiation skills
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail and strong collaboration and Teamwork