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Exxaro Buyer

PURPOSE:

• To ensure effective and efficient execution of operational, repair, maintenance and support goods and services buying tasks for allocated purchasing groups.

Minimum Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:
•    Grade 12/Standard 10 (Essential/Minimum)
•    Certificate Purchasing & Stores Mngt (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 
3 years  Relevant Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Finance or buying experience. Understanding of Enterprise Resources Planning and/or Cloud based procurement solutions (e.g. SAP MM, Coupa).  (Essential/Minimum) Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 
•    Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
•    Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
•    Competence: SAP Position Specific Module (Essential/Minimum)
•    Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)

Duties & Responsibilities

Administration and Support Services    

• Low level reporting to Coordinator, Procurement on procurement Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for relevant area
• Manage interfaces and liaise continuously with end user/suppliers to ensure that service delivery standards are met


Business Partner Enablement    

• Identify, evaluate and support business partners/end-users to develop disciplined sourcing execution capabilities
• Provide process advice to business partners/end-users through in transaction guidance and support
• Working with various internal and external stakeholders to expand and enrich supply chain content


Commercial, Logistics and Supplier Control    

• Compile and issue Request for Quotation (RFQ)'s/tender documents and receive tenders
• Evaluate and adjudicate tenders
• Negotiate price, delivery and lead times
• Expedite outstanding purchase orders
• Source and communicate availability of new vendors for approval and maintenance on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system/procurement system


Compliance, Governance and Assurance    

• Ensure supplier and stakeholders comply with relevant regulatory requirements
• Compliance to supply chain policy, preferential procurement policy and other relevant policies
Functional Excellence    

• Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end to end processes, tools, templates etc.
• Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up of functional processes and eliminate duplication/ bureaucracy
• Apply functional best practices and promote sharing of best practices/knowledge
• Assist in the execution of functional excellence initiatives
• Adherence to allocated purchasing group work split/allocations, on contract purchasing requirements and applicable payment terms
• Assist with addressing sourcing business partner/end-user problems where necessary or when advised by group purchasing


People Management    

• Performance management: Adhere to performance management procedures
• Culture/functional climate: Uphold the Company culture and values within the function. Foster effective teamwork and unity


Procurement Control    

• Actively source suppliers which are commercially and technically advantageous
• Ensure product quality and quantity
• Achieve procurement savings target
• Validate dates and update supply chain management/ERP system with respect to procurement operations
• Accounts payable and order related query resolution


Safe and Healthy Work Environment    

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment and safe operations practices
• Ensure compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations


Behavioural Alignment    

Demonstrates the following:
• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective


The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaro’s Employment Equity policy.
If you have not been contacted within 28 days of the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.

Job Profile (Downloadable)

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