Export Buyer

**Company Description**

Our client in the logistics/freight forwarding industry, is looking for a specialist Export Buyer.

**Client Maintenance**
- Manage Client relationship with regards to effective and frequent communication.
- Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customer’s expectations through proactive and appropriate solutions.

**Supplier Maintenance**
- Manage Supplier relationship with regards to effective and frequent communication.
- Critical evaluation of supplier service, delivery lead times and quality on a continuous basis.
- Compare pricing of stock between current and competitive suppliers and suggest saving initiativesto operations manager.
- Make continuous purchase suggestions to operations manager based on informed market knowledge.
- Ensuring timeous payment is made to supplier through correspondence with the Finance Department

**Purchasing**
- Process order enquiries from customers as forwarded by management and follow agreed purchasing procedures.
- Source goods to meet customer requests.
- Prepare pro-forma invoices for customer inclusive of all costs for delivery, duties, freight, surcharge, VAT, etc.
- Ensure selling costs meet agreed customer mark-up rates.
- Ensure duty calculations, and exchange rates are correct.
- Request forward cover for Forex deals.
- Compile a complete file for each order with all the necessary correspondence and product information.
- After receipt of order confirmation, place orders with various suppliers, and forward copies to accounts for payment and warehouse for collections.
- Obtain competitive quotations from suppliers.
- Negotiate best possible prices and payment terms.
- Supply Clients with competitive quotations for requested goods.
- Follow up with Clients and secure the order.
- Send an authorised purchase order to supplier to confirm the order.
- Ensure timeous delivery or collection from supplier according to priority set for scheduled delivery trucks
- Follow up on undelivered goods of your purchase orders.
- Schedule returns with supplier of incorrect or defective goods.

**Stock Control**
- Liaise continuously with the Warehouse staff on purchase order receipts with regards to packaging, labelling, storage and shipping.
- Inspect goods on delivery to ensure correct before scheduled loading of delivery trucks.

**Reporting**
- Communicate frequently to Operations Manager and Warehouse staff regarding availability of purchased goods, collections, returns, deliveries and lead time from suppliers.
- Daily completion of Procurement Schedule.
- Report during staff meetings with regards to any queries, schedules for collections and loading.

**General**
- Must manage own administration duties.
- Enjoy working independently as well as be part of a team.
- Assist fellow colleagues in the daily running of company related tasks.
- Be focused on providing work of an extremely high quality and accuracy.

**Qualifications**
- Matric or similar Qualification
- 3 - 5 years’ experience in export buying for **mines**:

- Ability to analyse facts / situations and make sound decisions
- Above average computer literacy, especially EXCEL
- **Pastel knowledge a must**:

- Project management skills
- Customer interface and conflict management skills

**Salary**: R25,000.00 - R35,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

- Do you currently reside in the Northriding area?
- What is your current and desired monthly salary?

**Experience**:

- mining purchasing / buying: 5 years (preferred)