Senior Buyer

12 hours ago

Cape Town, South Africa Yebo Fresh Full time

**Role Description - Senior Buyer**

**Based in Cape Town**

Yebo Fresh is looking for an experienced senior buyer to increase the company’s sourcing capabilities. This is a job for someone with strong negotiating skills, elaborate buying experience in the food space, ideally for FMCGs and/or grocery retailers, and someone eager to join the leadership team of a fast moving, young company

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop sourcing strategies for all critical SKUs
- Discover profitable suppliers and initiate business and organization partnerships
- Negotiate with vendors, from large FMCGs to local markets and butcheries to secure advantageous terms
- Negotiate rebates, credit terms, listing fees and supplier fees
- Negotiate joint marketing events and specials
- Analyse buying patterns and price patterns to advise on assortment and product listings
- Approve the ordering of necessary goods and services
- Finalize purchase details of orders and deliveries
- Examine and test existing contracts
- Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness
- Control spend and build a culture of long-term saving on procurement costs
- Minimise cost of procurement (collection of goods and cost of team) as a % of sales
- Source products whilst ensuring the best commercial value to the business
- Manage the procurement process and the supply base efficiently and effectively
- Support organizational goals and objectives
- Manage the BBBEE procurement process
- Daily management and support for Junior buyers CPT and JHB
- Build partnerships with suppliers that maximise benefits for all involved: suppliers, Yebo Fresh and end customers

**Requirements**:

- Proven work experience as a Senior buyer, Procurement Manager or Procurement Officer
- Knowledge of sourcing and procurement techniques in the FMCG space as well as a dexterity in “reading” the market
- Talent in negotiations and networking
- Aptitude in decision-making and working with numbers
- **Experience in collecting and analyzing data**:

- Strong leadership capabilities
- Eagerness to ‘get your hands dirty’ in a company that operates in township food ecosystems and supplies to township families and businesses
- Ideally a degree in supply chain management, logistics or business administration

Every employee is accountable to the Yebo Fresh ways of working. These include (but are not limited to):

- _We care_ - for the customer, for each other, for our partners, for society
- _We give 100%_ - showing up on time, being present, commitment to the success of the business, going the extra mile
- _We get better every day - _we keep improving and growing in everything we do
- _We make opportunities _- we are entrepreneurs, we understand the market and our customers, we solve problems.

**Contract Type**: Permanent Employment Contract after a 3 months fixed term contract.

**Reporting to: Head of Operations**

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Salary**: R32,000.00 - R35,000.00 per month

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Cape Town, Western Cape: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

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