Procurement Supervisor - Johannesburg, South Africa - Recruitment Matters Africa

Thabo Mthembu

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Our client is looking for a Procurement Supervisor to join their team.

The role will be responsible for the overseeing the timely placements for all
supplier orders based on customer demand, POs and pre-negotiated pricing and
product range. The role will require expediting of supplier deliveries in
accordance with their required final dispatch dates.


Responsibilities:


  • Management of the buying team in performing the buying, expediting, and payment processes.
  • Create and maintain good relationships with suppliers and customers.
  • Consider agreed customer KPIs when conducting buying function and reporting against these KPI's.
  • Create and issue purchase orders within agreed KPI's where required.
  • Supporting business partners in resolving invoice discrepancies to ensure correct payments are made to suppliers.
  • Processing and maintaining supplier master information and pricing on procurement system.
  • Review and analyse suppliers' performance.
  • Maintain and communicate daily inbound delivery times.
  • Maintain records of orders placed, including all relevant milestones to enable other functions.
  • Ensure invoicing of stock is done so that prepayments are received from the client.
  • Achieve system management targets.
  • Achieve customer service targets.
  • Ensure on time deliveries.
  • Continuous improvement of buying processes.
  • Coordinate and control the team.
  • Ensure that the team interacts with clients as per defined client retention strategy and provide visible support and information in response to enquiries and queries.
  • Lead the team through coaching, developing and motivating subordinates including followup of team and individual performance against targets and objectives aligned with overall company strategy.

Skills:


  • Be able to work under pressure and adhere to deadlines.
  • Ability to prioritise.
  • Ability to leverage technology.
  • Management of a team and team capacity management.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to interact professionally with culturally and linguistically diverse staff, clients and consultants.
  • Excellent organizational, oral and written communication skills.
  • Strong decisionmaking, problemsolving and creativity skills.
  • Good analytical skills and attention to detail.
  • Cargo wise 1 preferable.
  • Advanced Microsoft office knowledge.
  • Be selfmotivated and work in a team.
  • Supervise and lead the team as a good example.
  • Assist with training new staff.
  • Assist with upskilling of existing staff.

Qualifications:


  • Degree or Diploma in Business Management or Logistics or Supply Chain.
years' experience in a similar role in procurement and buying industry.
years' experience supervising a team.


Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Johannesburg, Gauteng: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:


  • Diploma (required)

Experience:

- procurement and buying: 3 years (required)

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