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Procurement Officer

Procurement Officer

MBA-Exchange.comCape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
1 day ago
Job description

Overview

Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Procurement Officer to join our team in our Cape Town Warehouse. We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hardworking people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

The position reports to the DC Finance and Admin Manager.

Responsibilities

  • Co-ordinate the packaging procurement process from requisition to delivery, ensuring timeous and accurate delivery.
  • Monitor packaging inventory levels and compile quarterly / monthly forecasts toprevent stockouts or overstock situations.
  • Audit that all purchased goods meet quality standards and specifications.
  • Keep records of the monthly supplier meetings performance scorecards.
  • Generate regular reports and dashboards to communicate key procurement insights (usage, spent per item / supplier)
  • Compiling Dashboards / reports for management.
  • Collaborate with packaging controllers to ensure efficiency in packaging department.
  • Creating Purchase Orders and ensuring all payment are made on time to suppliers.
  • Compile Monthly packaging reports.
  • Assist with month end financial reporting : analyse general ledger accounts and posting journals.
  • Assist with budget compilations.
  • Assist with RFP and RFQ processes during sourcing of newsuppliers / business.
  • Update daily dashboards for Management.
  • Capture weekly ad-hoc invoices.
  • Assist with ad-hoc team responsibilities

Qualifications

  • Minimum 2 years relevant experience within a Warehouse / Supply Chain environment.
  • B-Comm, Degree in Procurement Management or Cost & Management Accounting.
  • Experienced in working with multiple stakeholders
  • Purchasing forecasts
  • Month end reporting and data analysis
  • Creating Dashboards

    • Attributes required

  • Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude; self-motivated.
  • Good communication skills, both written and spoken across different managerial levels and with external stakeholders.
  • Analytical skills
  • Ability to build dashboards for reporting and data analysis
  • Critical and Systems thinking.
  • Independent worker

    • The Environment

  • takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer- centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e- commerce company in Africa.
  • We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback / new ideas on where we can improve.
  • We are short on ego and high on output.
  • We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
  • We love what we do and what we are creating.
  • We seek to employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who is Smart, has Integrity, and is Hardworking.

    • If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!

    Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply.

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