Purchasing and Supply Chain Manager

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Ultra Personnel Full time

Matric, a relevant qualification and 5 - 6 years' relevant experience is required

You will be responsible for 3rd party management, product sourcing, contract manufacturing supplier management, price and terms negotiations.

Experience in a manufacturing procurement environment, and preferably with significant experience in a CMO environment

National Diploma in relevant field (Procurement, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Finance), or a related

Customer Awareness, Making Decisions, Planning and Organising and Interrogating Information

**Supplier management**
- Communicate and negotiate with suppliers
- Monitor quality standards and identify performance failures
- Conduct supplier audits and report on supplier performance
- Manage supplier communications and documents and process flow, including RFIs, RFP, RFQ, and RFBs
- Resolve supplier issues; maintain working relationships with key suppliers
- Set up new vendors and coordinate with legal to support new contracts; maintain/ update existing contracts
- Identify new suppliers and products in the marketplace
- Vet potential suppliers capabilities (delivery, quality, services)
- Review insourcing and outsourcing opportunities
- Negotiate with suppliers to carry stock for fast moving items
- Assist in the drafting of specifications as required, and provide advice and guidance to customers on procurement processes
- Review and approve price variances (Order vs Invoice Prices)
- BBBEE and procurement administration

**Risk management**
- Maintain and report on adherence to internal and external compliance requirements
- Actively reduce third-party risk exposure
- Carry out risk management processes within CMO category

**Quality and qualifying products**
- Assist quality teams to obtain products needed to conduct finished product testing
- Schedule product trials and coordinate samples

**Reporting and record keeping**
- Maintain repository of procurement-related knowledge
- Maintain complete, compliant documentation of purchasing activities
- Maintain standards and update SOPs for documentation and filing requirements

**Budgeting**
- Manage and optimise use of Category budget
- Provide input into required changes in resources to enable achievement of objectives
- Monitor, track and report on expenditure against budget

**Planning and coordination**

Optimise processes, identify gaps in policies, procedures and legislation, and propose changes or improvements to management
- Provide technical advice to internal stakeholders

**Accountability & Decision Rights**
- Provide updates to management on work progress/ quality
- Serve as a technical advisor to management to resolve the most complex technical challenges, and handle escalated issues as a lead technical expert
- Escalate out-of-policy matters

**Independent decisions relating to**:

- Correction/ containment of errors of significant impact
- Prioritisation of tasks and responsibilities within overall direction and clearly defined parameters/ schedules and established policies, practices, guidelines, and quality and safety checks


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