PURCHASING EXPEDITOR – DELTA Automotive Technologies (Pty) Ltd

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We are seeking dynamic persons to be employed as Purchasing Expeditors in the industry of Wire Harness manufacturing at our rapidly growing plant in Lobatse, Botswana.

PURCHASING EXPEDITOR
OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Purchase goods, materials, and commodities to ensure that production operational needs orc met, taking into account price, quality, delivery lead times, supplier penalties and ensuring continuity of supply.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

General and Task Management
⦁ Act as a single point of contact between production, suppliers, sales, master planner, forecaster, order management, quality, finance, warehouse and strategic sourcing teams to manage high-value transactions for capital and flow ports
⦁ Process purchase orders for capital and flow ports based on supply/demand situation: meeting customer’s demands, forecasting (ic. Build Plan), engineering inputs, and other system signals
⦁ Maintain purchase order book up-to-date with dates reflecting current demand and commitments
⦁ Manage short cycle demands, customer emergencies, and forced outages, expedite post-due, urgent demands
⦁ Facilitate inventory management by acting on cancellation requests, supporting other inventory programs
⦁ Communicate and follow up fulfillment of special customer requirements, including trade compliance requests
⦁ Coordinate master schedulers, manufacturing factories, and warehouse for proper schedule and allocation of the high-value capital and How ports
⦁ Evaluate and drive resolution on material quality, price, supply issues, delivery and invoice discrepancies
⦁ Support product development cost quotation process for factory items
⦁ Prepare reports, metrics directly related to daily job activities, report results to leadership
⦁ Support the purchasing function and other relevant departments and communicate any supply problems which may impact on business operations
⦁ Act as an interface between suppliers and other relevant deportments on purchasing processes and new projects and activities
⦁ Monitor and advise on any issues which present risk or opportunity to the organisation
⦁ Negotiate contracts, improve prices and terms of business with suppliers ana review opportunities to moke business savings utilising negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods
⦁ Build, maintain and manage supplier relationships and keep up good communications
⦁ Ensure compliance to company guidelines, purchasing policies and procedures and the Official Journal of the European Community (OJEU) guid­ance during supplier negotiations and contracts award process
⦁ Compile data relating to supplier performance to enable evaluation

Skills and Attributes
⦁ Able to build and maintain effective and productive relationships with staff, stakeholders an suppliers
⦁ Good communication, negotiation, interpersonal and influencing skills
⦁ Analytical, numerically astute with strong demonstrated problem-solving abilities
⦁ Able to manage time effectively, prioritize tasks and achieve set targets
⦁ Commercial and financial awareness with a full understanding of how failure impacts the production, manufacture and customer order fulfillment
⦁ Able to work well under pressure and handle emergency and stressful situations
⦁ Keen attention to detail and accuracy
⦁ Familiarity with an integrated Material Resource Planning (MRP) system would be beneficial

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE LEVELS
⦁ BGCSE (minimum)
⦁ Degree, diploma or certificate in Supply Chain Management, Purchasing Management, or equivalent
⦁ Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) or similar qualification or sluaying towards CIPS qualification would be beneficial
⦁ Previous experience of working in a purchasing learn preferably wilhin an automotive or manufacturing environment
⦁ Good knowledge of purchasing, negotiation, commercial understanding and cost breakdown
⦁ Experience of working closely with suppliers
⦁ Able to add value, reduce costs and input to business improvements
⦁ An understanding of automotive processes and components would be advantageous
⦁ Computer literate, with advanced Excel skills/abilities
BENEFITS
Salary structure: We offer a competitive salary & Pension Fund.