Procurement Officer

2 weeks ago

Middelburg, South Africa SoluGrowth (Pty) Ltd. Full time

Solugrowth is looking for a Procurement Officer - 3 months contract role in Middelburg for a client in the earth moving equipment environment to support Middelburg & Polokwane regions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Understand category strategies and sourcing plans to support their regional execution
- Ensure a full understanding of regional buying needs
- Identify future supply and/or demand issues to ensure a proactive and effective response
- Provide intelligence on potential or existing issues
- Check accuracy of PR data
- Where contracts are not in place, select suppliers by getting quotations or executing local tender process (with support from Senior Procurement Officers)
- Raise POs to selected suppliers
- Track the orders and report on the order status
- Follow up with suppliers to ensure correct delivery
- Inform relevant Category Manager/Analyst about supplier pricing and delivery issues
- Understand and keep up with macro-trends and regulations in the region and communicate findings with Category Managers/Analysts
- Communicate supply and demand issues/changes with relevant Category Managers/Analysts
- Ensure that managers in local plants get the value agreed to from Category Management
- Link local end users to sourcing actions to ensure new supply agreements are developed and implemented appropriately
- Proactively manage operational risks and challenges stemming from regions
- KPIs:
% spend by P2P channel by plant

Number of days’ reduction in P2P cycle time by plant

Number of deviations in good receipts versus PO
- End user satisfaction

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS
- 1-3 years’ experience in procurement
- Preferably experience in multiple geographies/regions
- Good communication skills,
- SAP MM Module knowledge
- Numerical ability, Resilience, Basic negotiating skills
- Computer literacy

COMPETENCIES
- Analytical thinking, Attention to detail, Problem solving, Judgement/decision making
- Verbal and written communication skills, Applied business numeracy, Excellence orientation
- Ethical behaviour, Influencing and negotiation, Time, and self-management
- Operational excellence, Analysis for business decision making Business acumen
- Supplier and local market insight

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