Fulfillment Specialist Else

**Fulfillment Specialist ELSE**:
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You will be working as Fulfillment Specialist ELSE and will be the part of Electrification business area for Services division based in Longmeadow, South Africa. In this role you will be reporting Sashee Moodley and will be responsible for ensuring the effective control of products and services due date requirements as per the manufacturing processes and ensuring OTD of all products and services

**Your responsibilities**:

- Obtaining and analyzing of quotations, negotiating of prices and terms and the purchase of goods, machinery, equipment, raw materials, and other supplies and/or services for the LBU, processing purchase orders on SAP and ensuring accuracy of data before submitting order to vendor and ensuring that all orders are confirmed within the lead times set out by SCM
- Performing the full expediting function, ensuring all orders are delivered and goods receipted, liaison with logistics center and shipping on a daily basis, evaluating suppliers and supplier qualification program and yearly revalidation of Local/Foreign vendors
- Eliminating run outs in stores within buyers control and reducing buyout, stock replenishment, developing new sources of supply, making use of SFDB to record and monitoring cost savings for stock items and non-stock items in order to plan cost savings actions (alt vendors, reduced price and source of supply from HCC-LCC, cutting down on landed cost
- Supporting the supply chain manager in creating long term agreements with vendors on commodities relevant to the BU, lease with vendors for price lists and discounts, supplier risk management and supplier performance evaluations
- Focusing on reducing non-ABB Supplier base on standard commodities/services and ensure that local vendors comply to our BBBEE requirements, working on converting old and new sole suppliers on std commodities with which our local spend is significant to at least a level 5
- Keeping records of communication and actions with vendors and basic housekeeping within SCM requirements

**Your background**:

- Bachelor’s Degree
- Diploma in Purchasing or currently studying towards a diploma
- Minimum 5 years experience in buying, SAP, product knowledge an advantage, must be competent on excel presentations
- Fluency in English language is mandatory

**More about us**:
ABB’s Electrification business is responsible for the go-to-market strategy and generating profitable growth for the Electrification Business Area. Our 10,000 strong commercial team represents the portfolio of all Electrification Business Area Divisions in over 100 countries. Our unmatched domain expertise across key industry verticals and channels combined with our truly global footprint makes us able to deliver extraordinary business results, supporting our customers with solutions which address their current needs, whilst considering the future emerging trends such as Urbanization, Digitalization and Shift to Electricity and Sustainable Energy Work model: on site #LI-onsite