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Senior Buyer

RCL FoodsRandfontein, ZA

13 days ago

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Job title : Senior Buyer

Job Location : Gauteng, Randfontein

Deadline : October 13, 2025

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The role will be responsible for managing Operational and Services Buying and agreements at the Business Unit by providing professional leadership to the Buying and Stores team for operational expenditure and meet agreed business unit service levels.

Minimum Requirements

Relevant 3-year Degree (Supply Chain, B.Com, Procurement or Business-related field).

Must have a minimum of 8 years of experience within FMCG or similar role.

Experience in procurement and the engineering / site services environment (Technical / Electrical and Mechanical).

Purchasing experience within an FMCG environment is critical.

Must have leadership experience and managed a team.

Must have a clear understanding of technical specifications, drawings, contract management, negotiating, executing and overseeing agreements to ensure compliance, mitigate risk, and achieve intended business outcomes.

Duties & Responsibilities

Business Unit Purchasing and Stores Services :

Participates in operations and engineering meetings and provides updates on buying and stores metrics and activities.

Resolves challenges within procurement procedure parameters.

Escalates complex issues to the Procurement Manager.

Team Leadership :

Manages direct reports daily to ensure that the team attains their KPI’s.

Drives a culture of commitment to Key Performance Indicator’s (KPI’s) by providing feedback and recognition KPI achievement.

Manages buyers and support the engineering store team to ensure correct order quantities, etc.

Contracts; SLAs, RFQs, RFPs, RFIs and Tender Process : Implement and support function to Procurement Manager :

Engages with stakeholders on process and supplier information.

Identify and qualify new vendors based on RCL criteria while managing performance of existing ones.

Conduct cost analysis and benchmarking to support negotiations and supplier selection; compliance; terms and conditions, quality, lead times.

Prepare and compile documentation on selected supplier for relevant upload based on LOA (i.e. pricing agreement; service contract; SLA etc).

Order and Supplier Management :

Ensures that the buying team create purchase orders on receipt of fully completed buying requisitions or workflows that have been approved in accordance with the Company policy and procedures, and Levels of Authority.

Ensures all requests have correct authorisation as per policy.

Ensures all orders are placed by the buyers are on time at the best price.

Category and Contract Management :

Ensures accurate, current pricing is applied for all contracted goods and services. All orders placed must be placed with reference to the Group and Local Contract (85% on contract).

Communicates issues to the Procurement Manager for Group and Local Contracts.

Clarifies BU specific requirements and execution.

Contract prices and metrics implemented (no contract leakage).

Engineering Stores Support :

In collaboration with the store supervisor, review and update appropriate stock levels, discontinued lines and ageing report provided by the Engineering Executive; ad hoc and quarterly – system and bins.

Safety Health Environment and Quality (SHEQ) :

Ensures understanding and competence at site level by ensuring and monitoring that policy and procedure training has been implemented.

Reporting and Data management :

Ensures business unit team accurately and regularly updates data on the procurement information system to enable access to reliable data and reporting for trend analysis and decision making.

Ensures compliance with all master data protocols.

Governance :

Ensure that ethical standards and the requirements of the Company policy are adhered to.

Report and or escalate any areas of non- compliance appropriately.

Procedural compliance demonstrated, and where relevant process controls and procurement procedures have been implemented.

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