Procurement Agent

Our international client in the pharmaceutical industry who is based in Brackengate, Cape Town has a vacancy for a **Procurement Agent.**

**IMPORTANT**: This is a 6-month contract position for someone comfortable to work remotely. So you do not need to stay within traveling distance from the site.

**Job purpose**:
The Procurement Agent is responsible for the execution of sourcing support and purchasing support activities within a specific region, country, or site in support of manufacturing operations or product development. The role is responsible for executing various value-add operational and transactional activities to meet business and/or project objectives.

The Procurement Agent has knowledge of business enterprise tools (e.g., SAP) and the overall

procurement process/methodology, such as documenting requirements, conducting analysis and negotiations, the purchase-to-pay process, and communicating with stakeholders and suppliers.

By efficiently and effectively supporting the procurement process end-to-end and providing high levels of internal customer service, the Procurement Agent ensures that internal stakeholder expectations are satisfied.

**Core Accountabilities**:

- Supporting the effective procurement of products and services in a timely and efficient manner.
- Maintaining master data: materials, suppliers, and workflows.
- Supporting the Procurement organization to ensure that all relevant documentation is complete and available in SAP (for example RFP, scoring tools and results, Signature Sheets, Contracts, SoWs).
- Providing operational procurement support as assigned by the Team Lead (for example support to supplier data entry blocked invoice resolution, or MyBuy purchase requisitions).
- Working with team members and business partners to mitigate any Procurement and/or business issues and help achieve agreed business goals.
- Executing operation procurement activities in line with a responsible Procurement approach while using tools, processes, policy setting, and enforcement in alignment with DOP business processes.
- Contributing that established targets and metrics on customer service are delivered. Track and monitor these metrics where required, and escalate issues as they arise.
- Optimizing processes in order to increase quality and efficiency standards.

**Personal Accountabilities**
- Training - Perform continuous professional development activities and ensure up-to-date training in processes and systems relevant to the position.

**Education, experience, and skills**
Required:

- University-entry diploma.
- German Speaking.
- Skilled on SAP.
- Business level fluency in English as well as the primary business language of the site(s).
- 2+ years of procurement operational purchasing or procurement support experience.
- Experience with enterprise IT systems and procure-to-pay tools.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills.
- Skilled in Google tool suite.
- Effective interpersonal skills. Good communication written and spoken.

Desired:

- University degree in a business-related study.
- Life Sciences experience.
- 5+ years’ experience in operational/tactical Procurement processes.
- Experience with enterprise systems and procure-to-pay tools and eSourcing tools.
- Excellent interpersonal skills. Good communication written and spoken.
- Competence or fluency in other sub-region languages is strongly encouraged.

**For all employee**s**:

- Permanently optimizes processes in order to increase quality and efficiency standards.

**Cobus Visser