Ekurhuleni: Buyer

About the Role

The Buyer position is responsible for ensuring compliance to company guidelines, managing the buying process, and negotiating deals with suppliers. The ideal candidate will have experience in procurement in a mining or manufacturing environment and be able to work collaboratively with suppliers to meet organisational targets.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance to company guidelines: Purchasing Policies and Procedures
• Manage the buying process of goods in line with specified cost, quality and delivery targets
• Negotiating deals with suppliers, researching possible item selections of current products
• Manage problems and schedule changes and ensure changes are reflected within the SYSPRO systems
• Continuously explore alternate sources for goods and materials
• Acquire and assess quotations from potential suppliers
• Prepare and manage purchase orders in line with final negotiations with selected suppliers and in line with organisational targets and requirements
• Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery, or invoice issues
• Control and manage the smooth and accurate running of the allocated Warehouse/s
• Ensure the booking of all incoming goods are done timeously
• Take stock on a 6 monthly basis and correct any discrepancies
• Work collaboratively, negotiate and engage with suppliers regarding new projects and components, supplies and initiatives and advise of impact of change on purchasing and production activities
• Stay current and up to date on any changes that may affect the supply and demand of needed products and materials and advise others of any impact
• Attend meetings and update others on issues or concerns, when there is a risk which could prevent the organisation meeting customer demands or where there are over capacity concerns
• Support product change requests and review and communicate the impact on capacity plans
• Build, maintain and manage supplier relationships and keep up good communications

Requirements

Minimum of 4 years experience in procurement in a mining or manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

Matric Tertiary qualification in Purchasing/Procurement will be an added advantage.