Recent Vacancies 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.

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Your Responsibilities

Responsibilities and duties include, but are not limited to:

• This role will entail handling RFQ received from clients and creating Proposals for our local Team.
• Close liaison with the external Site Sales team and Key Account Managers to support achievement of the Order Intake sales budget and margin expectancy.
• Ensure that enquiries are registered and distributed to applicable departments timeously, and to prepare accurate tender documents and pricing in line with company guidelines for presentation within tender closing dates.
• Submission of Reports relating to RFQ and Purchase Orders Received.
• Create and maintain excellent customer relationships through prompt response to customer’s needs.
• Maintain and develop good supplier relationships that enhance the company’s ability to obtain competitive prices.
• Communicates with and influences peers across the teams.
• Ensure complete and accurate order handovers to the order handling department by participating in hand-over meetings with all departments concerned and prepare the initial contract file for delivery to the order handling department.
• Ensuring policies, practices and procedures are understood and followed.

What you bring

• At least 3 years of relevant experience or experience in a technical and / or sales environment.
• Matric, or a relevant engineering or business-related qualification
• Knowledge of the FLSmidth products and technical solutions -.
• Computer experience using standard MS Office suite of programs is required
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills in order to work with customers, and other personnel daily.
• Ability to work in a team or individually on multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced, changing environment while maintaining high attention to detail.
• Good organization, multitasking and time management skills.