Description:
Job Description:
- Purchasing/ Supply Management:
- Manage contracts, KPI’s and SLA’s to ensure a continuous supply of goods and services, including bottling production, quality, and cost saving.
- Meets with Local and European suppliers regularly to discuss service level agreements, orders and pricing. Advises COO of any significant price fluctuations.
- Negotiate competitive/ best price increase for dry goods as well as effective and cost saving rebate structures and settlement discounts (European and SA markets).
- Negotiating Rebates for the company on All exports and Volume baselines. This is not specific to Dry Goods.
- Suppliers: Work closely with suppliers and evaluate performance. Quarterly updates and reconciliations with suppliers. Visit suppliers and build relationships.
- People Management:
- Ensures effective communication between all personnel, supervising work of employees, including providing guidance in handling difficult problems and in resolving escalated complaints or disputes.
- Manages staff performance and identifies training needs.
- Financial and Administration Processes:
- Advises on administration processes to ensure stock is optimised for overseas bottling.
- Lead group procurement for priority categories; effective supplier negotiations; build cross-functional relations; provide internal services (policy & process consultation) and regulate risk & compliance for credit- & contract agreements.
- Perpetually engage in continuous improvement activities through the employment of modern best practices to achieve organisational objectives.
- Engage in personal and professional development to stay abreast with current market and international/ European industry developments.
- Ensure that the lowest logical level of stock and dry goods is being procured and kept.
- Analysis & Reporting:
- Monitor, investigate and report on Rework, Deviation, CAR and Customer Complaints.
- Flags problems with timing of dry goods delivery dates at least 2 (two) weeks before the production commences.
- Compiles and maintains a global Stock Loss Analysis Report.
- Identify, implement and manage cost-saving projects for the group.
- Managing & influencing business behaviour to achieve targeted results, building & maintaining internal & external strategic relationships to facilitate continuous improvement initiatives.
- Quality Management System:
- Adheres to and ensures staff compliance to QMS standards and procedures.
- Follows QMS protocol as described by QMS procedures.
- Ensures that the security site is intact for responsible areas.
- Participates in various quality seminars when so required.
- Adheres to the set GMP protocols.
- Health, Safety and Housekeeping:
- Attends HACCP meetings and participates in training if so required.
- Participates in H&S committee meetings and works closely with the Planning and Procurement Manager to ensure adherence to safe work practices as per company and statutory H&S policies and procedures.
Requirements:
- Purchasing/ Supply Management:
- Manage contracts, KPI’s and SLA’s to ensure a continuous supply of goods and services, including bottling production, quality, and cost saving.
- Meets with Local and European suppliers regularly to discuss service level agreements, orders and pricing. Advises COO of any significant price fluctuations.
- Negotiate competitive/ best price increase for dry goods as well as effective and cost saving rebate structures and settlement discounts (European and SA markets).
- Negotiating Rebates for the company on All exports and Volume baselines. This is not specific to Dry Goods.
- Suppliers: Work closely with suppliers and evaluate performance. Quarterly updates and reconciliations with suppliers. Visit suppliers and build relationships.
- People Management:
- Ensures effective communication between all personnel, supervising work of employees, including providing guidance in handling difficult problems and in resolving escalated complaints or disputes.
- Manages staff performance and identifies training needs.
- Financial and Administration Processes:
- Advises on administration processes to ensure stock is optimised for overseas bottling.
- Lead group procurement for priority categories; effective supplier negotiations; build cross-functional relations; provide internal services (policy & process consultation) and regulate risk & compliance for credit- & contract agreements.
- Perpetually engage in continuous improvement activities through the employment of modern best practices to achieve organisational objectives.
- Engage in personal and professional development to stay abreast with current market and international/ European industry developments.
- Ensure that the lowest logical level of stock and dry goods is being procured and kept.
- Analysis & Reporting:
- Monitor, investigate and report on Rework, Deviation, CAR and Customer Complaints.
- Flags problems with timing of dry goods delivery dates at least 2 (two) weeks before the production commences.
- Compiles and maintains a global Stock Loss Analysis Report.
- Identify, implement and manage cost-saving projects for the group.
- Managing & influencing business behaviour to achieve targeted results, building & maintaining internal & external strategic relationships to facilitate continuous improvement initiatives.
- Quality Management System:
- Adheres to and ensures staff compliance to QMS standards and procedures.
- Follows QMS protocol as described by QMS procedures.
- Ensures that the security site is intact for responsible areas.
- Participates in various quality seminars when so required.
- Adheres to the set GMP protocols.
- Health, Safety and Housekeeping:
- Attends HACCP meetings and participates in training if so required.
- Participates in H&S committee meetings and works closely with the Planning and Procurement Manager to ensure adherence to safe work practices as per company and statutory H&S policies and procedures.
- Manage contracts, KPI’s and SLA’s to ensure a continuous supply of goods and services, including bottling production, quality, and cost saving.
- Meets with Local and European suppliers regularly to discuss service level agreements, orders and pricing. Advises COO of any significant price fluctuations.
- Negotiate competitive/ best price increase for dry goods as well as effective and cost saving rebate structures and settlement discounts (European and SA markets).
- Negotiating Rebates for the company on All exports and Volume baselines. This is not specific to Dry Goods.
- Suppliers: Work closely with suppliers and evaluate performance. Quarterly updates and reconciliations with suppliers. Visit suppliers and build relationships.
- Ensures effective communication between all personnel, supervising work of employees, including providing guidance in handling difficult problems and in resolving escalated complaints or disputes.
- Manages staff performance and identifies training needs.
- Advises on administration processes to ensure stock is optimised for overseas bottling.
- Lead group procurement for priority categories; effective supplier negotiations; build cross-functional relations; provide internal services (policy & process consultation) and regulate risk & compliance for credit- & contract agreements.
- Perpetually engage in continuous improvement activities through the employment of modern best practices to achieve organisational objectives.
- Engage in personal and professional development to stay abreast with current market and international/ European industry developments.
- Ensure that the lowest logical level of stock and dry goods is being procured and kept.
- Monitor, investigate and report on Rework, Deviation, CAR and Customer Complaints.
- Flags problems with timing of dry goods delivery dates at least 2 (two) weeks before the production commences.
- Compiles and maintains a global Stock Loss Analysis Report.
- Identify, implement and manage cost-saving projects for the group.
- Managing & influencing business behaviour to achieve targeted results, building & maintaining internal & external strategic relationships to facilitate continuous improvement initiatives.
- Adheres to and ensures staff compliance to QMS standards and procedures.
- Follows QMS protocol as described by QMS procedures.
- Ensures that the security site is intact for responsible areas.
- Participates in various quality seminars when so required.
- Adheres to the set GMP protocols.
- Attends HACCP meetings and participates in training if so required.
- Participates in H&S committee meetings and works closely with the Planning and Procurement Manager to ensure adherence to safe work practices as per company and statutory H&S policies and procedures.
- A relevant tertiary qualification in Procurement in a FMCG environment
- Advanced Excel and Word skills
- Financial background - Accounting Qualification (CIMA / CA) – an added advantage
- European/Group Procurement experience
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in broadly similar position with exposure to operations and manufacturing with experience in a costing environment.
- CIPS qualification would be advantages
- Computer Proficiency (MS Office, Advanced Excel & SAGE)
Qualifications:
- A relevant tertiary qualification in Procurement in a FMCG environment
- Advanced Excel and Word skills
- Financial background - Accounting Qualification (CIMA / CA) – an added advantage
- European/Group Procurement experience
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in broadly similar position with exposure to operations and manufacturing with experience in a costing environment.
- CIPS qualification would be advantages
- Computer Proficiency (MS Office, Advanced Excel & SAGE)
28 May 2025;
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