Jobs at BASF

The successful incumbent will be responsible for managing the demand forecast and planning process for the South and Southern Africa Cluster. The incumbent will manage average and point-in-time inventory and tracking of inbound an outbound shipping. Duties will include the following:

• Manage logistics service providers, contractors, and internal stakeholders
• Manage the coordination and implementation for medium to long term supply chain solutions within South and Southern Africa
• Ensure supply chain compliance alignment according to BASF Group guidelines, policies, and procedures
• Manage the demand forecast and planning process for South and Southern Africa Cluster
• Accountable for full year forecast of all relevant materials for AP, aligned to needs of the market and uploading of forecast into Integrated Business Planning (IBP) tool
• Analyse and challenge bottom-up demand planning from sales
• Maintaining article numbers in SAP and IBPManage half-year and year-end stock takes
• Ensure inventory adjustments and stock variance at 3rd party warehouses are processed timeously
• Relabeling of products for South and Southern Africa, sourcing the labels and packaging material, communicating with all relevant stakeholders in Procurement and 3rd Party Warehousing service provide
• Tracking of vessels and updating all stakeholders on the ETA
• Managing inbound stock from a POA (port of arrival) point of viewManaging stock transfers from Johannesburg, Durban, and Paarl warehouse
• Reconciliation and follow-up of the inbound open purchase order (PO) report
• PR/PO creation, goods receipts requests, submissions of invoices to ICEbox for local & foreign logistics vendors for ordering stock
• Processing of warehouse invoices from 3rd Party service provider
• Investigate, follow up and closing of supply and production Non – Conformance Management (NCM)
• Acting as business partner and assist divisional units regarding ad hoc analyses, providing background explanation and possible leverages.Identify efficiency in processes / system enhancement
• Ensure that deadlines are met, and that quality information is delivered; and presented in a comprehensive way

What we expect

• A Tertiary qualification in Supply Chain Management
• Minimum 5 years experience in similar roleSAP and Microsoft excel experience
• Experience in demand planning, supply chain and inventory management
• Good proficiency and ability to communicate and build creditability with internal functions
• A commercial mindset

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The successful incumbent will be responsible for to increase indirect sales (POG) to selected farming key accounts within South Africa. Duties will include the following:

• End to end process management from needs analysis, forecasting, planning, technical advice as well as the management of key stakeholder relationships relating to the relevant farmer key accounts
• Aligning activities to the regional sales team in which area they operates
• Manage sales to key accounts, including identifying new/potential key accounts
• Manage farmer key account buying process in conjunction with commercial manager and national sales manager
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with farmer key accounts, regional sales teams, and management structures
• Ensuring BASF products are included in tender/material requests
• Develop proposals for strategic product positioning in the region, optimizing marketing materials, and defining advertising programs in line with area strategy
• Optimise marketing material in crop protection and define advertising program in line with area strategy in partnership with the marketing department
• Provide technical support to agents and key accounts during sales events
• Offer recommendations on BASF products and spray programs
• Accurately forecast monthly and annual sales, aligning with key account buying patterns, while managing the expense budget effectively
• Communicate crop team decision and implement with customer’s management and agents
• Strategic alignment with regional sales teams and management of relationship with key regional distributors and agents

What we expect

• A bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Sale or marketing
• Minimum 5 years sales experience in the agricultural chemical
• Advanced knowledge of crop production specific to the North western and Central region in South Africa
• Experience and knowledge of row crops
• Proven record of client relationship management
• Good command of the Afrikaans language
• High level of Microsoft Office, Excel, Power point

Closing date: 18 August 2023