Specialist: Inventory Management (107898) at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

• Optimise improvement of inventory management processes to deliver inventory policies that is appropriate and aligned with the strategy i.e. reorder point setting and maintenance, maximum on hand setting and maintenance, dead stock review and optimisation and creating and implement excess stock reduction strategy.
• Assess inventory management performance on the applicable strategies implemented.
• Review analysis performed to evaluate requests for inventory level changes and recommend appropriate strategy. 

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Maintain and utilize systems (processes and technology) to strategically execute and control the physical inventory and the level of compliance to the strategy.              
• Appropriately influence stock holding decisions and strategies.                                                                                                                                                                      
• Participation and contribution in applicable forums between the various stakeholders.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis on identified deviations.
• Responsible to ensure a standardized approach to inventory management on aspects of systems, processes and key performance areas.                                              
• Ensure a visible and understandable report on processes to all stakeholders.

Formal Education

• 4-year Degree /University Bachelor's Hons in Logistics, Industrial Engineering or Commercial Hons degree

Min Experience

• 6 relevant years’ relevant analytical experience 

Certification & Professional Membership

• None

Competencies

• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting
• Business Acumen: An intuitive and applicable understanding of how a company or unit makes money.  Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability.  Maintains a market-focused approach to business.  Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the business and its interrelationships enabling a person to make better business decisions.  The ability to make good business judgments and quick decisions in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
• Analytics: The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics.
• Compliance: Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.
• Decision Making: Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Financial Management: Demonstrated knowledge and application of Financial Management, the strategic and functional management of the set of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions affecting the way the company's finances are directed, administered, and controlled.
• Reporting: The ability to access information from databases, forms, and other sources, and prepare reports according to requirements.

Closing Date: 8th, April 2022