Job Description
Reports To: Manager Commercial and Indirect Sourcing
Division: Finance
Description
- Assess suppliers where necessary, evaluating their products and capabilities as suppliers; and review and compare supplier price quotation.
- Assess strategic, financial, accounting, tax or legal impact of procurement activities to ensure that policy is directed towards achieving the utmost benefit to the company.
- Validate and approve purchase orders within prescribed limits and escalate purchase orders above limits.
- Coordinate the monitoring of purchase orders raised on the computerized system.
- Ensure that complete records of Purchase Orders are properly kept (data packs) and ensure adequate documentation of buying activities in the Purchase Log.
- Review relevant procurement documentation including PR, PO and ensure all relevant information is properly captured on same and that user departments have access as may be required, for tracking.
- Coordinate and distribute RFQs amongst the Buyers and other staff for effective man-hour utilization, task clarity and efficient delivery of customer’s needs.
- Communicate procurement activities to user departments and liaise with all stakeholders to ensure that process efficiency is upheld.
- Ensure stakeholders compliance with policies and procedures and adherence with all SLAs relating to Procurement Unit.
- Ensure user department get their PR/PO issues resolved amicably.
- Drive Knowledge Management and Best Practice Sharing within own Unit/Department/Division/Enterprise-wide as required
Education:
- First degree in any related discipline
- PGD, MBA and CIPS will be an added advantage
- Fluent in English
Experience:
3 - 7 years experience in an area of specialization; with experience in supervising others
- Experience working in a medium organization
- Experience in purchasing function,
- Proficient in MS Office Applications and other Microsoft tools
- Understanding of ORACLE FUSION and application