Lead Buyer JHB - Johannesburg - Stratogo

Description

About the Role

The Lead Buyer will be responsible for negotiating and releasing Purchase Orders at the right time and quality within specified targets. This includes settling claims with favorable conditions and overseeing coordinated commodities.

Key Responsibilities

1. Bears commercial responsibility for purchasing activities, Engineering Representative, PPLM, Project Manager, and Supplier Quality.
2. Collects information from PPLM/Project Manager regarding project-related, commercial, and legal specifications in the RFQ and Purchase Orders to Suppliers.
3. Issues Purchase Orders and monitors the return of acknowledgments.
4. Leads regionally for cost reduction, lead-time, and quality improvement initiatives.
5. Supports Order Fulfilment, Quality, and Engineering in organizing deliverables that are late from Suppliers.
6. Supports Projects/Product Lines for critical operational issues (e.g. claims, delays, key negotiations) with regional suppliers, issues claim notifications, and manages recoveries.
7. Manages the invoice release, except for Globalized Commodities where this is done by the Regional Commodity Leader (RCL).
8. Ensures on-time delivery of RFQs to Suppliers identified in the Engineering Procurement Plan, performs total cost analysis of the offers received, and organizes/participates in technical-commercial discussions with the Supplier.
9. Conducts negotiations, involving Engineering Representative, Supplier Quality/Order Fulfilment, and PPLM/Project Manager.
10. Responsible for applying Procurement Concept and ensuring compliance of Business Award with validated regional Supplier Panel.
11. Initiates the POR.

Cross-Region Collaboration

1. Supports the definition of the Commodity Strategy, Target Panel, and Action Plan.
2. Leads commercial qualification of all suppliers of the Regional Target Panel to ensure they are qualified at all times.
3. Manages and develops the validated Regional Target Supplier Panels including product qualification aspects.
4. Monitors overall Regional Target Suppliers Performance, ensures their scorecards are up-to-date, and their data is 100% accurate in the systems.
5. Defines contractual plans (e.g. General Terms & Conditions, Price Lists) and ensures implementation for Regional Target Suppliers.
6. Defines inputs for tendering purposes (e.g. costing, solidity, firming, and regional target panel).
7. Supports delivery against tender price with regional suppliers.