Technical Buyer

**_Position: Technical Buyer_**

**_Industry: Manufacturing Industry_**

**_Location: Chamdor - Krugersdorp_**

**_Salary: Market-Related Salary_**

**Purpose**:
The buyer will be responsible for ensuring that the company selects the most appropriate goods and services based on price, quality, and services support. The buyer must develop the best buying strategies for the company with a view to consistently maintain quality and managing costs.

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- Grade 12
- Purchasing qualification
- Registered with CIPS
- 3 years experience as technical buyer in a Manufacturing (Auto) / Mining environment.
- International imports experience.
- MRP Software
- Syspro

**Skills**:

- Strong negotiating and expediting skills.
- Exposure to supplier contracts.
- Purchasing practices and procedures.
- Materials, products, and the commodity market in area of specialization.
- Pricing of imported materials, customs procedures, shipping terms and clearance procedures.
- Preparing and analysing complex technical specifications.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Ensure all orders are in accordance with signed supplier contracts, company standards and minimum requirements.
- Obtain at least 3 quotations prior to adjudication of an order where a contract is not in place.
- Ensure all orders are completed within the negotiated lead-time.
- Follow up on all orders that are outstanding and take corrective action.
- Management and maintenance of outstanding purchase orders per supplier
- Report on a weekly basis on all outstanding orders and liaise with the Supply Chain Manager concerning the progress of their outstanding orders / quotations.
- Constantly strive to improve vendor relations and provide long-term information that would enable the vendor to improve the service to and create a better understanding of the mutual business requirements.
- Investigating / analysing of defects / non conformances and instituting improvements / methods or systems to prevent the re-occurrence of these defects / non conformances.
- Developing and maintaining good and productive relationships with nominated clients.
- Management of Suppliers and costs within the company policies, procedures and approvals framework.
- Negotiating of price stability and favourable price.