Gauteng: Purchasing Admin Graduate posted by Signa Opportunity
Posted on 2025-05-19 00:00:00
| Employer | Signa Opportunity |
|---|---|
| Category | Automotive Management |
| Location | Gauteng / Gauteng |
Job Summary
Responsible for securing quality suppliers of services and indirect materials, covering price, delivery and quality targets.
The role will have a clear project focus, supporting the purchasing function at an operational level to help achieve objectives required to aid production facilities and support functions.
- Key Performance Areas:
- To manage and control the company’s external suppliers with particular emphasis on the
- purchase of, Indirect Materials and support functions.
- To perform Market analysis (information gathering).
- To ensure supplier scouting, evaluation and capability studies.
- To request for quotation & Negotiation.
- To ensure indirect materials are services are purchased at the most competitive price and delivered on time.
- To establish strategic relationships with key suppliers who are aligned to the company’s needs
- (incl. BBBEE requirements).
- To continually improve purchasing methods and drive down external spends.
- To identify new suppliers, agree terms and negotiate supply agreements where appropriate and
- where required load / update suppliers on the Iveco Group supplier portal.
- To foster close working relationships with associated departments/ Cross functional teams e.g.
- Engineering and support functions.
- To assist with SHE implementation.
Requirements:
- Grade 12
- Diploma / bachelor’s degree in management, Supply Chain and Economics
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
- Proficiency in MS Office (MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, etc.)
- Excellent time management
- Good administrative skills with special attention to detail
- South African unemployed YOUTH aged between 18 and 34
- Must not have taken part on the YES Programme before
Related experience:
- Very good knowledge of MS Office (SAP environment is an
- advantage)
- Strong communication and negotiation skills (fluent in English)
- Knowledge of key elements associated with creation /
- administration of contracts
Behavioural competencies:
- Relationship with people Enjoys interacting with people and would feel comfortable
- communicating with suppliers and customers as well as staff
- Establishes and maintains effective relations with customers and
- gains their trust and respect.
- Thinking styles Evaluate and critically examines information.
- Emotions Work under pressure, stay calm and professional always.
Core Competencies:
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Managing and controlling the company’s external suppliers with particular emphasis on the purchase
- of, Indirect Materials and services for the support functions.
Sourcing Activities:
- Market analysis (information gathering)
- Supplier scouting, evaluation and capability studies
- Requests for quotation & Negotiation
- Ensure indirect materials are services are purchased at the most competitive price and delivered on
- time.
- Sourcing strategy execution
- Establish strategic relationships with key suppliers who are aligned to the company’s needs (incl.
- BBBEE requirements)
- Continually improve purchasing methods and drive down external spends.
- Contract Management
- Identify new suppliers, agree terms and negotiate supply agreements where appropriate
- Internal Customer relationship Management
- Foster close working relationships with associated departments/ Cross functional teams e.g.
- Engineering and support functions.
- confidence and presentation of the individual due to the requirement to interact at various levels
- Ability to work under pressure;
- Demonstrated strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Team player
- Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Accuracy
- Honesty
- Work under pressure, Attention to detail
- Computer literate
Please consider your application unsuccessful when you have not heard from the Signa Opportunity team within two weeks after submitting your application.
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