Roles & Responsibilities

• Schedule, Control & Monitor Import Category purchases ensuring lowest TCO while managing desired quality, inbound freight optimization and timing, ensuring minimum inventory levels and cash flow management with due regard to economic pressures & FX availability. 
• In conjunction and coordination with the concerned parties in the supply chain department, assure getting the right kind of PI’s from foreign suppliers and submit to banks for possible forex allocation. 
• Schedule, Control & Monitor domestically sourced category purchases ensuring lowest TCO while managing desired quality, inbound freight optimization while selecting, developing and promoting local suppliers, developing enduring relationships ensuring JIT management controls. 
• Achieves financial objectives by participating in preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions. 
• Completes Procurement operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results. 
• Formulate budget. 
• Participate and contribute, to product development activities including TCO of formulation, packaging and efficacy to the new product development committee. 
• Supports the product development & technology initiatives for the category. 
• Ensure all activities related to the function comply with relevant Acts, legal demands and ethical standards.
• Participate in the company’s management team meetings, strategy, Health & Safety program, insurance/benefits committees and others as required. 
• Meet targets articulated in supply chain plans, product development briefs in terms of product quality, timeliness and cost. 
• Resolve quires which can come from 3rd party stack holders. 
• Other duties and activities as reasonably directed by the SCM or other senior executives of the company. 
• Be responsible and accountable for sourcing and supplying specific Category. 
• Closely interact and support Technical & Sales and Marketing management teams.   
• Represent the company as the ‘Procurement Office Representative’ of Repi Wilmar on Category Suppliers/Vendors.
• Manage Planning, sourcing and appointing of all inputs to the company which Repi acquires for its manufacturing and other needs; 
• Make sure that PO is issued or contractual service agreement is made with selected suppliers; 
• Assure on time settlement of Documents with Finance; 
• Give priority on delivery, finalize the delivery within the given time frame; 
• Manage Procurement cost. 
• Maintain minimum procurement operation. 
• Assure maximum inventor turnover. 
• Devise innovative and accepted ways to ensure minimum time that floated bids stay in the procurement cycle. 
• Set a standard and follow-up efficiency towards minimum response time to demand request. 
• Assure minimum errors during vendor selection and sourcing. 
• Maintain minimum possible price vis-a -vis quality of items or service. 
• Properly follow a systemic document management procedure by filing closed purchases orders based on requester PR and delivery source docs and transferred to finance for archiving. 
• Maintain records to the various procurement related records of the items and services sourced and procured. 
• Keep clean document of submitted PI’s and Capture all the necessary data on soft and hard copy about the particular request; 
• Collect forex related bank advices and other financial documents to finance; 
• Strictly understand and follow LC terms and inform if change/Action is needed including on matters like LC or date of shipment extensions; 
• Prepare the necessary follow-up and bank process documentation related to forex allocation, extensions and amendments to be endorsed by the concerned whenever the need arises; 
• Be a custodian of import files; 
• Track import delivery status and notify as deem as necessary developments, changes and faults on time; 
• Report weekly delivered imported items to SC manager with enough detail; 
• Prepare payment requests for import related activities and keep records; 
• Updating GIT’s on import purchases; 
• Keep landing cost updated after delivery of the goods; 
• Maintain up-to-dated and reconciled records of procured Materials; 
• Sign documents of tender records and procurement process documents; 
• Report discrepancies and propose corrective actions to SC Manager; 
• Follow strictly companies Procurement policy; 
• Assure at all times integrity by following companies Ethics Policy; 
• Adhere with company HR policy in all aspect;   

  Qualification

• A Minimum of BA Degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, Transport Management, Business Management, Accounting or any other related field of study.
• With  a minimum of seven (7) years relevant experience as out of which three (3) years as Senior Procurement Officer/Procurement/Category Specialist or equivalent capacity preferably in FMCG industry.   

Competencies:

• Results driven
• Interpersonal and Organization skill
• Fluency in English language.
• Professional Excellence
• Analytical Skill and Attention to Detail

How To Apply

Apply through Ethiojobs:-Procurement Head- NPI / fill this form  /  https://forms.gle/qDV25xrMZKvi9CG77

Or through Email - hana.seyum@et.wilmar-intl.com