Experience

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  Yisingo brokers

  Feb 2010 - Jan 2012

  Junior buyer

  Job Description:• Contract development• Monitoring procurement process and conducting long-range planning necessary for a contract scheduling.• Select suppliers and negotiate business terms• Maintaining supplier relationships• Meeting up with new suppliers to discuss product ranges.• Creating Purchase Orders from Purchase requisitions• Sending small amounts of tender documents to the market and evaluating them against a predetermined scorecard and making recommendations.• Ensuring on-time deliveries of supplies.• Tracking market conditions and price trends• Preparing budget and ensuring that it is adhered to and no materials outside the business scope or cost exorbitant are purchased• Ensuring the most cost-effective methods of acquiring goods Show less

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  Eskom holdings soc ltd

  Feb 2012 - Feb 2013

  Junior sourcing specialist

  Job Description:• Uphold Procurement policies, procedures, and processes • Ensuring that insurance is taken and performance bonds are retained from suppliers for big power transmission transformers.• Scrutinising purchase requests for logic descriptions, specifications, lead time, and availability of funds Create and Maintain RFQs manually on SAP- SRM.• Contract Management (ensuring that there are always funds and quantities on the contract) • Drafting five-year strategic plans for power transformers and Dissolved Gas Analyzers to be presented to EXCOPS.• Identifying. Financial and contractual risks ie. Forex, hedging, performance, guarantees, etc.• FOREX(Currency and Materials Hedging), ensuring that forward cover is taken for all power transformers purchased from overseas suppliers.• Prepare tender committee approval reports• Ensuring that suppliers adhere to lead times and ensuring that the purchased power transformers and DGAS is of the right quality.• Issuing Non-Conformance Reports when suppliers do not adhere to the set quality standards.• Preparation and maintenance of all procurement contracts in SAP including contract review and query management.• Evaluating returned tender documents and scoring them against a predetermined scorecard.• Ensuring that for every power transformer purchased from overseas suppliers a certain portion of the purchasing amount goes to local supplier development for example it would be made mandatory that a local supplier is used for the transportation and installation of the transformer.• Implementing BEE and following up on BEE status of suppliers.• Communicating with site agents regarding on-time delivery of materials and quality and following up on queries.• Implement and managing cost reduction and price containment strategies to comply with Eskom tariff increases CPI/ PPI/Seifsa Indices and inflation• Controlling contract modifications and deviations Show less

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  Tractionel enterprise

  Oct 2016 - May 2018

  Senior buyer

  Job Description:• The purchasing of materials, plant, and equipment on behalf of the Company for use and resale by the Company • Ensuring that purchased materials, plant and equipment conforms with the standards required by the Company • Ensuring that materials purchased are delivered timorously at the requested destination of delivery • Ensuring that materials, plant, and equipment sold to a third party are delivered to the third party timeously and are correctly invoiced daily, statements are issued timeously, and all overdue payments are followed up and reported to management on a monthly basis • Selecting the best possible vendors in relation to cost efficiency, quality, and delivery • Identify and make a recommendation of vendor prerequisites • Have vendors registered on the preferred vendor's list • Ensure that vendors are aware of the set requirements and ensure vendor compliance to set criteria • Communicate any breach of a vendor • Confirmation of vendor BBBEE status and preparing BBBEE to spend reports• Ensure that purchase order is verified and within approved thresholds • Minimising potential risks aggressors • Execution and expediting of orders • Tracks market conditions and price trends • Sourcing of new vendors • Understand the core needs of the project by partnering with them • Understand resources required, in order to complete sourcing projects or initiatives within specific timelines • Negotiating vendor pricing, payment terms, and conditions as well as settlement discounts • Ensure the finalization of all orders submitted • Review and verify purchase orders prior to the order being dispatched • Ensure that purchase orders are prepared and issued on approved quotations, highlighting special requirements and technical information • Conduct regular checks, and ensure that processes and procedures are adhered to • Performance measures and implementation plans to maximise procurement delivery Show less

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  South african national blood service

  Jun 2018 - Aug 2022

  Procurement practitioner

  Job Description• Provide an effective fair, competitive, and transparent Procurement / Buying Service to the organization.• Facilitates submissions of samples to QA to ensure conformance to SANBS Quality Requirements in the Buying Process.• Ensures effective Sourcing and Selection of Vendors to achieve optimum total cost, quality, and service solutions in terms of SANBS Requirements.• Ensure sound relationships are maintained between Service Providers and SANBS departments and zones. Show less