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Location:
Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
Advertised By:Agency
Company Name:Job Placements
Job Type:Full-Time
Description
Job Responsibilities:

  • Performance / Savings:
    • Manage local spend based on commodities in scope
    • Run sourcing processes based on needs coming from business, in line with the commodity strategies
    • Perform rigorous analysis on cost base and suppliers to ensure delivery of spend targets
  • Quality:
    • Ensure supply of product and/or services to the business and execution of local purchasing
  • Supplier management:
    • Own, manage and negotiated local supplier relationships
    • Manage local supplier performance (performance to SLAs, continuous improvement cost innovation)
    • Stay abreast of market conditions and trends (including global pricing benchmarks) to inform strategy and ensure supply continuity
  • Commodity Management:
    • Define and implement a local commodity strategy if not covered by global and/or regional teams
  • Purchasing Excellence:
    • Implement best practice commodity management techniques
    • Implement standards, processes and tools consistent with the overall purchasing function
  • Compliance:
    • Comply with overall purchasing spend and preferred supplier policies, and monitor compliance of business end users
  • Team and skills management:
    • Participate in local and central skill development activities
  • When required, organize and lead escalation meetings with supplier leadership to address disruptive suppliers that are impacting company plants and programs and jeopardizing company customer deliveries
  • Propose continuous improvement ideas in business efficiency and cost reduction
  • Capitalizes on knowledge and shares best practices / lessons learned across organization and within the site

Job Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering (industrial or mechanical preferred) or Business.
  • Minimum 5 years Automotive manufacturing experience
  • Minimum 5 years experience in purchasing in an industrial environment
  • Experience of successfully managing and negotiating contracts

Skills and competencies:
  • Negotiation skills
  • Supplier Management experience
  • Purchasing financial skills, including data analytics, budgeting and savings calculation
  • Business acumen and strategic thinking ability

https://www.jobplacements.com/Jobs/I/Indirect-Purchasing-Buyer-1232596-Job-Search-12-02-2025-00-00-00-AM.asp?sid=gumtree
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