Thursday, 31 October, 2024
anonymous
Paarl 
Purpose: The incumbent primarily oversees all financial and governance aspects that lies with the Technical Buyer. The Technical Buyer procures, as efficiently and cost effectively as possible, the goods and services for maintenance, repair and services that keep the KWV plants up and running. The incumbent ensures that purchase orders for KWV with the exception of Dry Goods and Flavours is approved and the process is followed. The incumbent is responsible for and will continually strive to ensure that only food safe, quality products and services, that meet all applicable standards and requirements, are supplied
Job grade: 8
Department: Technical Services
Reporting to: Technical Manager
Division: Operations
Location: Paarl
Minimum Requirements:
- Grade 12
- Technical qualification will be preferred
- Tertiary Qualification in Procurement and/or Training
- Minimum 7 Years’ experience in Technical/Engineering Procurement Environment
- 5 Years’ experience in Food/Beverage Production Environment
Skills Required:
- Excellent Negotiation Skills
- Excellent Computer literate - SAP (Word, Excel, order creation, budgets, reports)
- Knowledge of processes and equipment within the Food/Beverage Industry
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English & Afrikaans)
- Interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent planning and organisation skills
- Financial/cost understanding
- Engineering background will be beneficial
Financial Responsibility:
- Reduce cost through negotiations to minimise expenses
- Reduce financial risk by limiting financial exposure.
- Improve Buying principles and contract management
- Monthly Reporting
Job Summary:
- Identifies and establishes preferred service providers and ensures service providers are aligned to the requirements.
- Drive the BBBEE ratings of service providers to meet company requirements and ensure certificates are in place when loading suppliers onto our database.
- Maximize company benefits through Service Level Agreements (SLAs):
- Negotiate costing
- Liaise with departments on their relevant SLAs, draw up the SLA to be linked to BRC accreditation and aligned with the requirements, review the SLA on the required date, initiate CAPEX and Extraordinary processes through the Sharepoint approval system, and expedite the purchase order process for specific items from order creation in SAP through to delivery and final payment.
- Compile monthly procurement reports to assist with identifying issues & drive supplier performance
- Manage the assistant buyer by conducting bi-monthly meetings
- Assign tasks to the assistant buyer to maximize savings and improve the efficiency of procurement operations.
- Conduct performance reviews with the assistant buyer.
- Decide on the preferred and approved suppliers in line with the Company Policy and procedure.
- Support the departments with benchmarking & tender processes to obtain the best benefits for the company in speed, quality and cost.
- Negotiate with relevant suppliers to minimize increases and secure favourable payment terms for the company.
- Initiate the approval of new vendors on SAP.