Procurement Assistant at Measured Ability Group of Companies

We are looking to place a Procurement Assistant with our Pharmaceutical client in Gauteng.

Purpose of the position will be

• Administration of general Supply Chain functions
• Liaising with external and internal stakeholders

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric (Maths Higher Grade, Accounting)
• BCom Finance or BCom supply chain
• 3-5 years supply chain/procurement experience
• Excel

Core Responsibilities:

• Liaising with external and internal stakeholders:
• Order management (place, confirm estimated time of arrival, receiving, escalation)
• Book shipments with freight forwarders
• Track shipments
• Track GRVs (Good received vouchers)
• Action ASNs (Advanced Shipping Notices) with distributor
• Local manufacturing administration (Order Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Packaging and place orders with local manufacturers)
• Stock control (UPD – Distribution Centre snapshot, Inter Branch Transfers (IBT), Cape Town Replenishment etc)
• Weekly stock report (Communication with sales)
• Create payment requisitions
• Communication with Quality Assurance (QA) regarding urgent releases Administration of general Supply Chain functions:
• Assist Tender Manager with Tender applications (Administration)
• Responding to tender request for quotes
• Send monthly forecasts to suppliers
• Tender stock report completion
• Stock holding analysis
• Order forecasting
• Order sign offs
• Navigating the procurement model
• Analysing stock levels
• Reconciling orders placed and received
• Permit applications
• Monthly procurement roll-over
• Creating out of stock & discontinued stock letters
• Product creation – creating product descriptions and codes on fact sheet
• Create the marketing fact sheet for sales and marketing to use with customers
• Create the product with the receiving warehouse