Purchasing Manager - Ekurhuleni at Unique Personnel

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing teams to forecast demand, manage inventory and mitigate supply chain risks. 
• Manage the end-to-end procurement process from suppliers. 
• Monitor and analyze KPI’s to track procurement performance and identify areas of development. 
• Negotiating and attaining the best possible cost prices for the Company
• Maintaining a service degree of 96 % or above. 
• Ensuring that we do not over order stock and responsible for keeping annual stock write off at acceptable level. 
• Attending any special-order requests by customers, sales and office staff.
• Maintaining a good liaison with overseas and local suppliers. 
• Analyze purchasing trends, identify cost-saving opportunities while optimizing procurement strategies.
• Giving quotes to customers and sales staff for articles in our existing range or to be imported as a special order from overseas or local supply. 
• Dealing with customers, sales staff or internal staff complaints or queries promptly and with a high degree of professionalism. 
• Conduct market research and supplier evaluations to identify potential vendors while ensuring competitive pricing and quality standards. 
• Retrieving the shipment information transmitted from all suppliers. 
• Providing direction and assistance to all staff members under your control in order to achieve desired productivity levels. 
• Providing ongoing leadership in terms of vision, direction, morale, discipline, conflict resolution, management and career development. 
• Conducting one-on-one talks with all members of his/her departments.

Key Competencies:

• Take part in the planning process regarding turnover, gross profit, costs and staff levels. 
• Recruit staff, when necessary, in line with the planned budget. 
• Submit capital expenditure requests in line with the budget. 
• Purchase goods to achieve a maximum between stock level, service degree and gross profit for the company. 
• Initiate individual contracts with suppliers for the supply of products after consultation with the Financial Director.
• Disposition non-conforming products after consultation with the Marketing and product departments.

Inherent Requirements    

• Matric or equivalent
• Degree or Diploma in Purchasing 
• 5 years relevant experience 
• Computer skills (SAP, Excel etc.) 
• Negotiation skills 
• Organisational skills 
• Must reside in Gauteng.