IT Buyer

**Overview**:
Omnia’s Agriculture division, the market leader in southern Africa, comprises Omnia Fertilizer and Omnia Specialities. The division produces granular, liquid and speciality fertilizers for a broad customer base of farmers, co-operatives and wholesalers throughout southern and East Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil. The division is expanding its influence in Europe, South America and Asia, where it is increasing its sales of speciality products. The Omnia Agriculture division’s range of specialised products and services are encompassed by its unique Nutriology® offering, which assists customers to optimise crop yield and quality.

**Qualifications**:

- Matric or NQF level 5
- Chartered Institute of Procurement - _would be beneficial_

**Experience**:

- At least 3 years’ experience in a similar role or at least 3 years’ experience in a procurement environment
- Experience and exposure to procurement processes and procedures

**Duties**:

- Conducting market research
- Managing contracts via purchase and framework agreements
- Monitoring purchase orders
- Keeping track of purchase orders and delivering reports
- Proposal consolidation and analysis to weighted scorecards
- Supplier onboarding
- Capturing purchase orders
- Special projects as required for IT procurement
- Audit pack consolidations where required
- Allocation of Inter-company cost charges
- Stock control and stock issuing
- Transactional Buying
- Administration
- Building relationships with suppliers and negotiating with them for the best price, quantities, and delivery timescales
- Updating inventory and managing stock levels
- Monitoring the stock quality and escalating any discrepancies to suppliers and management

**Job Competencies**:

- Basic Bookkeeping
- Inventory management
- Conflict resolution skills
- Good team dynamic capability
- Analytical Thinking
- Organizational Awareness
- Business and Financial Acumen
- Data Literacy
- Decision Making
- Results Oriented
- Planning and Organizing
- Manage Complexity
- Able to use Microsoft Office products proficiently
- Negotiation skills
- Communication Skills
- Inter-personal skills
- Willing to learn
- ERP - AX2012 or D365

**General**: