Sourcing Co-ordinator Miladys at Mr Price Group

Job Description

• Provide administrative support in the sourcing of merchandise and suppliers in line with the merchandise strategy and ensure best value, lead-time and quality is delivered.

Responsibilities
Analysis, Research & Reporting

• Assist with conducting in depth analysis and monitoring of key metrics & KPI's across the sourcing value chain in order to measure supplier performance and highlight potential risks or further opportunities to the business.
• Assist with identifying new product and fabric developments in the global market and how they could be adapted for the local market in order to remain customer relevant.

Strategy

• Participate in developing and implementing a short- and long-term sourcing and supplier strategy to support the business strategic objectives and merchandise direction, whilst ensuring that there is a responsible balance between sourcing territories, sourcing channels, supplier performance, capacity, and capability planning, as well as managing any potential risk to the business.

Supplier Development & Management

• Partner with the respective Sourcing Specialist in building strategic supplier relationships and identify new partnerships for long term sustainability.
• Assist and guide new suppliers in order to ensure their understanding of our requirements, policies and procedures

Procurement of Product

• Partner with the Sourcing Specialist in the procurement of merchandise at the optimal total cost without compromising on product execution, quality and lead-times, through; negotiation, volume bundling and fabric optimisation.
• Partner with the Sourcing Specialist to re-engineer product for lower costs where necessary while still maintaining required standards and value perception.

Critical Path Management

• Manage the critical path up to the handover of goods to the forwarder in order to ensure on-time delivery of merchandise in the correct product execution, full order quantity and required quality.
• Call-out any potential delivery delays to the Sourcing Specialist and work together on finding proactive solutions to mitigate any/minimal delivery delay impact on the business.
• Partner with respective merchants in reacting to the trading environment in order to maximise sales.

Qualifications

Education:

• Grade 12 
•  Relevant degree or diploma would be favourable (e.g. Procurement & Sourcing, Retail Management)

Experience:

• 1-2 years’ experience within Product Sourcing 

Specific Knowledge:

• Microsoft Office (Excel & PowerPoint)
• Negotiation Skills
• Product Construction
• Fabrics and Materials
• Manufacturing and Production
• Costing
• Analytical Thinking
• Ethical/Social Compliance Awareness
• Business Understanding:
• Commercial acumen
• Sourcing/ Procurement understanding & experience