Sales and Purchasing Manager (Permanent)
Profile Personnel • East London, Eastern Cape, ZA
30+ days ago
Job description
Responsibilities
- Plausibility check and preparation of offers according to specific customer requirements
- Comprehensive coordination of the offer phase and project launch
- Interdisciplinary, cross-location cooperation with other departments, esp. Customer Programs, CoCs and Operations to ensure efficient processing of K1 and K2
- Strategic customer development based on agreed targets
- Negotiation of offers with customers
- Continuous project support from kick-off, through milestone reviews to project completion
- Documentation of project progress
- Conducting the annual price negotiations and/or business plan agreements
- Support of the production plants and SHEQ in case of complaints, if required
- Preparation of the company's -internal profitability tables
- Triggering and initiating potential company-internal development activities
- Identify trends in supply markets and evaluate opportunities and risks and derive purchasing strategies from them
- Observing the purchasing strategies of competitors
- Evaluate potential suppliers, establish and support them
- Negotiating with suppliers
- Strategic negotiation management for the conclusion of international framework agreements
- Negotiating price adjustments
- Optimizing the supplier portfolio
- Reporting
- Support of the purchasing controlling
Job Requirements
- Matric + Degree/Diploma (preferably Purchasing Management or Business Management)
- At least 5 years Sales Management experience in automotive environment
- Strong business acumen with regards to cost consciousness, efficiency improvement
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Strong negotiating skills
- Knowledge in business intelligence portals and capable to generate own reports
- Advanced knowledge in MS Office programmes
- Excellent time management, people management, organizational and planning skills
Should you meet the requirements, please forward your CV & Supporting Documents to Caree-Lee@profilepersonnel.co.za
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