Technology Procurement Specialist

Yebo Fresh is an award-winning online grocery platform focusing on South Africa’s mass market. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver an unbeatable offer at a highly competitive price point.

We proudly serve families, NGOs, Schools, ECDs, and township retail businesses such as Spazas and fast food restaurants and we are looking to grow.

For **our customers,** using Yebo Fresh means avoiding the hassle, cost, and risk of overcrowded and/or expensive transport, long queues, and carrying heavy bulk goods.

We engage **with entrepreneurs, and our customers** on our platform on a daily basis through field sales agents, supplying credit lines, having WhatsApp conversations, and organizing product deliveries.

These interactions allow us to build extensive qualitative and quantitative insights into the typical patterns, challenges, and critical success factors of township entrepreneurs.

We are now keen to build on this physical & digital infrastructure and to use these insights. We would like to create an ‘empowerment’ engine for South African entrepreneurs who, as we observe, often struggle in this highly competitive environment and provide them with education and development on being better entrepreneurs.

**Now Hiring: Technology Procurement Specialist**

**What You Will Do**

We are looking for a Technology Procurement Specialist to join the founding team of a startup project with national ambitions to bring breakthrough impact to the world of Entrepreneurs and small township businesses in education, funding, job creation, and support, in partnership with the National Treasury in their goal to address the challenge of unemployment in South Africa.

The goal is to unlock exponential Entrepreneur and Township SME growth with the corresponding impact by building an Entrepreneurial Development Program Platform that supports eCommerce and online entrepreneurial education to support retail

financing models and business growth that results in scale which ultimately leads to job creation.

We are looking to create;
- A more just and equitable society that depends upon more families and households having a stable income in the townships through entrepreneurship development by providing entrepreneurial learning content through coaching, online delivery, on-site training, peer learning, and networking
- Growth of Township SMEs and growing livelihoods through adequate access to finance in the retail industry in collaboration with training and marketing
- Entrepreneurial growth, scale, and support; we are seeking growth beyond traditional models, using technology to educate and through intelligent behavioral software and powerful entrepreneur technology support toolkits

In this role, we are looking for a Technology Procurement Specialist to provide support services for technological systems, programs, and networks of the project. They will oversee the procurement, implementation, configuration, updating, and maintenance of IT systems, hardware, and components. In some organizations, they may also perform sales duties, promoting certain technology products or service

We are looking for a highly accurate technical specialist to analyze and design our entrepreneur network system. The technical specialist's duties include providing technical assistance, solving customer service queries, and troubleshooting hardware and software issues. You should also manage security functions and oversee the configuring of hardware while working with the tech team for integrations.

To be successful as a Technology Specialist, you should demonstrate expertise in software and hardware, security functions and design, as well as problem-solving skills. Ultimately, a high-quality technical specialist should demonstrate excellent programming abilities.

We are looking for team members who are competitive, ambitious and have a track record of over-achieving and exceeding targets.

**Key Role Responsibilities and Duties**
- Identify suppliers of goods and services for the technology uplift
- Negotiate terms with suppliers such as price, quality of goods, deadlines, expectations, etc.
- Liaise with suppliers and project managers regarding updates and details of goods
- Create purchase orders and tally these with supply requests and orders
- Analyze invoices to ensure the accuracy of goods delivered
- Monitor inventory to ensure the flow of goods remains positive
- Attend meetings with the legal department to ensure any contractual obligations are favorable to the project
- Work closely with the projects team to understand the details of procurement requirements
- Evaluating technical programs.
- Troubleshooting technical programs.
- Assist core business and project field coaches on technical setup

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- Distribute the technology to the customers

**KPI’s**:

- Device management and safety
- Connectivity on project
- Delivery Timelines of the project
- Project-specific KPIs to be agreed upon betw