South Africa: Procurement Assistant posted by G-Core Capital

• 2 years post-qualification experience (preferably in an FMCG environment)
• Must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain or similar field
• Advanced Excel skills will be beneficial
• Experience with an ERP inventory management system (either Syspro or SAP)

Responsibilities including but not limited to: –

• Order management
  • Expediting, pushing and pulling of orders
  • Call off lists for stock-holding suppliers
  • Inputting shipment dates from the forwarder tracker to review whether shipments are on track
• Placing of orders for packaging, consumables and project related items, both local and import
• Tracking of open orders
• Coordination of materials to fulfill orders
• Out of stock management
• Tracking supplier delays
• Overseeing of returns to supplier/ reject stock for replacement
• Assist with local and import sourcing and quote requests
• Maintain imports tracker with payment and delivery dates and report on overdue items. Report on any items that affect launch dates and feedback on the innovation tracker
• Place import orders and send them to suppliers.
• Oversees the scheduling and documentation of all imports/export
• Assist with obtaining estimates from forwarder and converting these into landed costs
• Assist in admin checklist for new product launches to ensure all crucial steps are completed
• Brief in colour matches to suppliers and follow through the process until final sign off
• Prepare and send out imports delivery schedule to the planning and gifting team every week
• Point of sale – liaise with the Activation team on requirements, request quotes and submit for sign off
• Maintain the POS tracker and delivery dates with suppliers
• Assist with innovation and gifting sample requests and tracking
• Maintenance and updating of the supplier list
• Assisting in sourcing new suppliers for vetting