Purchasing Manager - Delmas at FLSmidth

Your responsibilities:

• Manages purchasing based on specifications and according to predefined procedures and processes to ensure delivery capability.
• Supports costing activities by obtaining supplier quotations and negotiating with suppliers where required.
• Prepares costing sheets for specific products and requirements.
• Engages with stakeholders, on strategic as well as tactical purchasing related matters, to ensure right and timely involvement.
• Manages and develops the purchasing team and ensures collaboration and alignment with group directives.
• Drives efficiency through resource optimization and implementation of best practice.
• Engages in the implementation of and compliance to procurement policies, processes and reporting of KPI’s in alignment with group directives.
• Ensures building of strategic purchasing and sourcing competencies to engage in global initiatives as well as running local activities in alignment with Group Procurement.
• Ensures savings effectiveness through compliance to implemented global category initiatives.
• Monitors the operational performance of suppliers to ensure that FLSmidth’s capacity to deliver is stable and long term.
• Builds and maintains relationships with supplier to secure future delivery of products.
• Ensures the group sourcing strategy is understood within the business unit and follows up on whether objectives are met.

What you bring

• CIPS Degree / bachelor’s degree in relevant area or the equivalent knowledge.
• 5 – 10 years relevant industry experience.
• In-depth knowledge of procurement and global sourcing.
• Strong operational leadership skills.
• Solid understanding of technical specifications in purchase orders.
• Solid commercial and financial understanding.