Job Vacancies at Distell

Key Performance Areas Include

• Category Management: in depth knowledge of commodity in terms of products, suppliers, demand, innovation and risks
• Supplier Relationship Management: drive price, quality, service, innovation, transformation and sustainability agenda for the group
• Cost of Goods Sold and Working Capital Management: control value chain costs, guide budget and mandate discussion and drive fit for purpose portfolio
• Procurement Governance
• Personal and Peer Development

 

Qualification Requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualification
• Professional accreditation advantageous
• Min 3 year relevant working experience in a senior supply chain role
• Demonstrated technical knowledge of relevant category (glass and cans)
• Experience in strategic sourcing events and e-procurement tools advantageous

 

Functional Competencies We Will Be Looking For And Developing

• World Class People Practices
• Commercial Acumen
• Insightfulness
• Integrated Business Planning
• Optimising operational Planning
• Procurement Excellence
• Innovative Supply Chain Management
• Management of information and Data Leveraging
• Business Partnering
• Project Management

 

Behavioural Competencies We Will Be Looking For And Developing

• Personal Effectiveness
• Resilience
• Model the Organisation's values: Consumer Focus, Excellence, Care, Trust and Team Work
• Adaptability and Leading Change
• Decision Making
• Relationship and Network building
• Engagement and Negotiating Skills
• Drive Results

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Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:

• Placing purchase orders of all MRP goods
• Ensuring the establishment, placing, monitoring and controlling of purchase requirements
• Adhering to all ICC procedures pertaining to purchasing process
• Ensuring all purchase orders are closed off.
• Maintaining and improving relationships with suppliers and customers.
• Ensuring competitive pricing and implementing cost savings.
• Implementing and adhering to purchasing policies and procedures.
• Participate in Mini business operating system
• Perform stand-in duties for the Senior buyer


 

The successful candidate must have the following qualification, skills and experience:

• Grade 12 or equivalent qualification is essential
• A tertiary qualification in Purchasing and Supply Management or Logistics or other relevant tertiary qualification
• 3-4 years’ experience in MRP purchasing
• Able to supervise the correct implementation and utilisation of administrative procedures
• Must be meticulous and consistently display good attention to detail
• Able to apply purchasing/ buying principles, procedures and practices in own work area according to organisational requirements
• Able to interpret product related requirements and apply correct buying/ purchasing techniques to satisfy needs
• Able to initiate contact with parties relevant to work functions
• Can develop alternative strategies to handle changes/situations in own working area.
• Is pro-active and anticipates problems before they arise.
• Can follow through with own tasks even if peaks occur and deadlines are set.
• Responds to and resolves customer problems quickly and amicably
• Computer literate in MS Office, especially Excel on an intermediate level of competency.
• Experience working on SAP purchasing modules will be of an advantage
• Production planning experience will be of an advantage
• Strong planning, organising and coordinating skills.
• Strong interpersonal and persuasive skills to ensure task completion.
• To reflect good leadership behaviour towards colleagues, superior and company values

 

Reference number: 16682 Closing Date: 25 February 2020

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Purpose Of The Position

• Responsible for the execution of the daily secondary operations load plan whilst ensuring continuous communication between all the relevant internal and external stakeholders

Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to:

• Drive productivity and cost effectiveness with daily operations in load planning
• Ensure operational execution of daily load plan in line with productivity performance requirements.
• Manages daily load planning and expediting activities for assigned Plants / Depots including reporting and data management (master data).
• Compile month end reports based on planning specific metrics and monthly efficiencies by Depot / Plant.
• Provide monthly feedback on performance against operational and customer service objectives.
• Execute all deliveries within operational performance requirements, as per the daily load plan.
• Identify and manage delays and missed deliveries with 3PL service providers
• Manage all delayed and missed deliveries with relevant Depot / Plant Teams
• Limit delays and optimise customer and depot TAT through regular engagement between Customers, Plants, E Expeditors and Customer Service Teams
• Daily load plan exception reports updated and distributed to relevant Depot and Planning teams.
• Build effective relationships with external and internal stakeholders
• Conduct all mandatory stakeholder engagement and pro-actively initiate additional communication when required.
• Frequent communication throughout each delivery day to manage execution of the daily load plan with Owner
• Drivers and Depots
• Review of previous day's load plan execution with Depots
• Monthly feedback on overall load plan performance and SLA adherence to Depots/Regions
• Continuously review systems and process to improve efficiency and cost savings
• Develop new and improved ways that reduce effort, cost and time or improve understanding, alignment and execution
• Participate in any process improvement projects that may be allocated from time to time.


 

The successful candidate must have the following qualification, skills and experience

• A 3-year Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Logistics, Industrial Engineering or Management.
• Minimum of 1 years’ experience
• Routing and Scheduling system, vehicle tracking and telematics experience advantageous.
• Working Knowledge of SAP R3, SAP BW and Qlikview reporting suite experience advantageous.
• Required to work shifts
• Own transport essential

 

Reference number: 16670Closing date: 21 February 2020