Western Cape: Indirect Purchasing Buyer posted by Staff Solutions

• Performance / Savings:
  • Manage local spend based on commodities in scope
  • Run sourcing processes based on needs coming from business, in line with the commodity strategies
  • Perform rigorous analysis on cost base and suppliers to ensure delivery of spend targets
• Quality:
  • Ensure supply of product and/or services to the business and execution of local purchasing
• Supplier management:
  • Own, manage and negotiated local supplier relationships
  • Manage local supplier performance (performance to SLAs, continuous improvement – cost innovation)
  • Stay abreast of market conditions and trends (including global pricing benchmarks) to inform strategy and ensure supply continuity
• Commodity Management:
  • Define and implement a local commodity strategy if not covered by global and/or regional teams
• Purchasing Excellence:
  • Implement best practice commodity management techniques
  • Implement standards, processes and tools consistent with the overall purchasing function
• Compliance:
  • Comply with overall purchasing spend and preferred supplier policies, and monitor compliance of business end users
• Team and skills management:
  • Participate in local and central skill development activities
• When required, organize and lead escalation meetings with supplier leadership to address disruptive suppliers that are impacting company plants and programs and jeopardizing company customer deliveries
• Propose continuous improvement ideas in business efficiency and cost reduction
• Capitalizes on knowledge and shares best practices / lessons learned across organization and within the site

Job Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (industrial or mechanical preferred) or Business.
• Minimum 5 years’ Automotive manufacturing experience
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in purchasing in an industrial environment
• Experience of successfully managing and negotiating contracts

Skills and competencies:  

• Negotiation skills
• Supplier Management experience
• Purchasing financial skills, including data analytics, budgeting and savings calculation
• Business acumen and strategic thinking ability