A Commodity Supervisor vacancy exists within the Purchasing division at an international Automotive Manufacturing company. They are seeking a dynamic, suitably qualified and experienced candidate, with a passion for the world of Purchasing and who wishes to pursue a career in leadership.

MINIMUM Requirements

• Have a relevant 3 year university degree/diploma in the following disciplines – Purchasing, Logistics, Commerce, Finance, Business Management or Engineering, -
• coupled with at least 5 years relevant purchasing experience, preferably in the automotive or auto supplier industry.  
• Previous leadership experience in a Purchasing environment will be an added advantage.

The candidate should successfully display the following attributes:

• Potential to develop / learn
• High Responsibility about your work/ targets/ people
• Leadership / Management abilities
• Attitudes and values in line with World Class principles, i.e. results orientated,
   attitudes to quality, continuous improvement, people development, teamwork, empowerment, etc.
• Be prepared to undergo and successfully pass an appropriate assessment
• Have good negotiation and problem solving skills
• Technical background / knowledge to understand Products and Production processes
• Have the ability to work under pressure, set and achieve timing plans
• Be a proven communicator at all levels  and have good presentation skills
• Financial analysis and costing ability
• Computer literacy, especially MS Office package
• Business management and project management skills
• Customer interface and conflict  management skills      
• Good attendance record
• German language proficiency will be an added advantage

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Plan, control and organize the achievement of your KPI’s and departmental objectives and create departmental business plans.
• Plan, control, organize and motivate the activities of Buyers to achieve KPI’s and departmental objectives.
• Ensure that employees reporting to you understand their role in terms of targets, quality, through-put and costs
• Evaluate all commercial, specification, legal and delivery aspects of the Buyers work.
• Assist, support, motivate and develop your responsible Buyers
• Action or assist Buyers with negotiations /arbitration’s with suppliers or internal departments.
• Ensure that employees receive accurate, useful and timeous information on their actual performance vs targets
• Action and assist Buyers with immediate and remedial action to secure production if there are potential line stoppers.
• Ensure employees are developed by means of training, thus enabling them to produce effectively
• Develop and improve the quality and processes at PUR
• Highlight, find solutions and address any barriers that may hinder the employees' performance, i.e. procedures, practices, etc.
• Ensure that employees are equipped with and know how to use the correct / effective tools to do the job
• Record and correlate required statistical data for Management / Departmental reporting.
• Assist Buyers with the sourcing of components and the analysis of offers in terms of the part price and tooling
• Analyse engineering changes and the offers related to this.
• Establish cost benchmarking in the VW Group.
• Pro-actively negotiate cost reductions to achieve business plan objectives.
• Create Board level presentations and present at the Board if required to do so.
• Identify and create export opportunities for local suppliers.
• Develop plans/strategies to increase local content.

Should you meet the abovementioned minimum requirements, kindly forward your cv to ****@*****.*** >RESPONSIBILITIES: