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Employer: Time Personnel
- Matric, Relevant undergraduate degree/qualification in supply chain management, logistics or business administration essential
- Advanced Excel – exp with Formulas V-lookup, Pivot tables
- 5 years’ working experience as Purchasing Manager or similar field
- Hands on function working alongside the Logistics Manager interacting on the factory floor for information required
- Sourcing and vendor management exp essential
- Interest in market dynamics along with business sense
- A knack for negotiation and networking
- Ability to gather and analyse data and to work with figures
- Expertise in supplier relationship management and negotiation skills will be crucial in ensuring cost-effective and high-quality procurement.
- Solid judgement along with decision making skills
- Strong leadership capabilities
- Develop, lead, and execute purchasing strategies
- Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses
- Craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms
- Managing excel data, working on in-house system and SAGE
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure clear requirements documentation
- Perform strategic procurement activities across various spend categories, aiming to find better deals and more profitable suppliers
- Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking
- Assess, manage, and mitigate risks
- Seek and partner with reliable vendors and suppliers
- Determine quantity and timing of deliveries
- Work closely with Operations, Logistics and Demand Planning to determine best practise to align with company purchasing policies and procedures.
- Sourcing equipment, goods, and services, as well as managing vendors.
- Lever your knowledge of supply chain management and your ability to identify opportunities for improvement, to contribute to the overall success of our organization’s purchasing operations
Salary: R negotiable dependent on experience
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About Time Personnel
Because we specialise in Companies, not specific industries, our focus is your company’s individual CULTURE and DYNAMICS. We are a Cape Town based boutique recruitment agency, who have been running for 14 years and can, collectively, offer well over 70 years of experience to our clients. We believe each of our clients deserves our time to research and collate all relevant data around their company in order for us to present the best candidates. We do not simply send through a CV.
We ensure the MATCHING has been done to a “T”, which includes your COMPANY and CULTURE requirements, so you only receive the best and we save your TIME!
How do we deliver positive results saving you TIME?
- A unique take-on process, eliminating TIME wasting for all parties concerned.
- Solution driven, for when problems occur.
- Experts in screening all the resumes that cross our path, ensuring we find the perfect MATCH.
- Hands-on, from interview process, placement and beyond, making sure that solid relationships are cemented.
- Continually keeping abreast of South Africa’s stringent Labour Laws.
Why should you be going through the painstaking process of sifting through a mountain of CV’s?
Your focus needs to be on your job function, most times you end up just recruiting someone out of pure frustration, exhaustion and desperation.
It is vitally important not to rush a recruitment process.
Our service TURN AROUND TIME is our success factor.
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