Job Description

- Plans, leads, manages and participates in operational activities to provide Co X with professional purchasing, Import & Export services, ensuring quality, price and time standards are met. - Develops, gains approval for, and implements medium term plans and budgets in order to achieve effective cost control and optimum deployment of resources. - Implements, maintains and recommends improvements to purchasing, Import & Export policies and procedures ensuring that all staff complies with these requirements in their interactions with end-users and suppliers. - Reviews organisation-wide purchasing, Import & Export requirements and current practices in order to devise and implement cost reduction measures through innovative approaches including minimum inventory levels, consolidation of orders to achieve economies of scale, long-term price agreements and synergistic relationships. - Manages and participates in the tendering process ensuring that every effort has been made to canvas the optimum spread of suppliers capable of meeting Co X requirements for quality, competitive pricing and timeliness of delivery. - Works with end-users and suppliers to develop and agree service level standards that deliver tangible benefits to all parties. - Establishes, fosters and maintains productive relationships with vendors and contractors to ensure good, reliable sources of supply and information. - Prepares senior management information reports on key procurement, Import & Export activities in order to ensure that senior managers have the information required to support strategic decision making. - Attends and reports to senior management meetings and committees in order to communicate effectively within the organisation and ensure that procurement logistics provision meets the ongoing needs of the business. - Ensures thorough and complete procurement, Import & Export records are maintained in order to provide accurate accounting of all purchased goods and services and integrity of operations.