Head Buyer

**Responsibilities**:

- Overall responsibility for the strategic development, performance and maintenance of the buying process activities to obtain best possible combination of price, quality, and service.
- Meet your targets and those of the team as a whole
- Achieving maximum customer satisfaction in accordance with organisation plans
- manage, direct and monitor the overall performance of the buying team
- Effective liaison, support and assistance between buying department and rest of organisation
- Maintain and improve mechanisms for buying, including measuring the buying process and disseminate feedback for improvements to the appropriate internal entities
- Utilise agreed systems to manage the buying process functions, analysis and documentation
- Direct the development of plans for buying process activities to include management to achieve targets
- Developing plans for buying processes
- Support to all other departments with buying process and related issues
- Reporting (content and format as agreed) on a monthly basis as agreed
- Maintain accurate records
- Responsibly use resources and control expenses to meet agreed budgetary controls

**Requirements**:

- Qualifications sufficient to perform the job role
- Experience in purchasing in a FMCG / F&B industry
- Thorough understanding of buying process management, requirements and dynamics
- Able to use Software
- Ability in buying process management and supplier relationship management
- Leadership with ability
- Integrity and honesty in all dealings
- Excellent analytical, interpersonal, organisational and communication skills.