Tactical Buyer - Food and Beverages

SUMMARY:
An exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced Tactical Buyer to join one of the leading FMCG brands in Gauteng

POSITION INFO:

• Remains current on economic, industrial and other trends that affect market and prices.
• Must be capable of handling multiple projects at one time.
• Review purchase request for material via MRP or manual purchase requisition.
• Develop Teams to support the quotation process and product launches.
• Able to provide sourcing support- investigating potential suppliers.
• Coordinate and negotiate prices for assigned commodities with the expectation of providing purchase price reductions and establishing purchase pricing.
• Maintain supplier relationships in order to drive cost reductions while continually achieving the highest level of quality material.
• Review, analyze and interpret various reports.
• Ability to evaluate procurement marketplace for assigned commodities.
• Qualifies suppliers through Supplier Quality audits and continuously reviews supplier’s performance.
• Input Purchase Orders and manage orders
• Monitor purchase orders to maintain delivery schedules.
• As applicable, must be able to expedite critical components and overdue purchase orders.
• Resolve supplier problems associated with over shipments, invoicing issues, obsolete, rework and scrap material.
• Must be able to develop excellent working relationship with both internal and external customers as well as suppliers
• REQUIREMENTS:
  
  • Min of 3-6 years’ experience in FMCG Food and Beverage
  • BCom / BTech Degree Supply Chain from an accredited university
  • CIPS certificate
  • Developing and implementing negotiating strategies
  • Define commercial terms; proven cost saving record re savings on negotiations,
  • Specific strategic sourcing skills
  • Experience in Baan, SAP, JDA, or other MRP/ERP system.

 

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