Company Overview

Kadisco Paint and Adhesive Industry S.C. previously known as Kadisco Chemical Industry PLC is a privately owned company located in Addis Ababa in the Akaki Kality Industrial Zone area. Kadisco is a company that traces its origins back from a small automotive parts dealership that was operating in one of the busy streets of Addis Ababa back in late 60’s. During the period until 1975 it had the opportunity to act as the sole distributor for Sadoline Paints. In 1979 it was registered as the sole company to manufacture adhesives and glue. By stages, the company developed into a diversified paint manufacturer.

In February 2015, Asian Paints Ltd and Kadisco Paint and Adhesive Industry SC formed a joint venture for business in Ethiopia and came to be known as Kadisco Asian paints. Asian Paints is India’s leading paint company and Asia’s second largest, with a group turnover of USD 2.7 billion. The group has an enviable reputation in the corporate world for professionalism, fast track growth, and building shareholder equity. Asian Paints operates in 19 countries and has 26 paint manufacturing facilities in the world servicing consumers in over 65 countries.

Today the company produces a full range of paints for the construction, industrial and automotive sectors. It also produces wood and concrete lacquers as well as adhesives for the wood and leather industry.

Position Summary 

The assistant manager -purchase is responsible for ensuring that all goods and services are procured in compliance with the purchasing policies of kadisco paint and adhesive industry SC, as well as applicable local procedures and should prioritize cost saving and seek opportunities for product improvement.

Main Duties and Responsibilities 

• Materials and vendor management.
• Generating purchase order requests for raw material (RM) and packaging material (PM) purchases depending on stock levels.
• Developing alternate vendors.
• Monitoring vendor management in SAP-beginning with Vendor code introduction
• Monitoring material management in SAP- beginning with source lists and PIR maintenance.
• Preparing and reporting material forecasts in coordination with the production team.
• Quarterly balance confirmation from all suppliers and co-ordination with the accounts team for any query resolution
• Coordinating with various suppliers for price quotations
• Maintain system hygiene (W.r.t open GRN, MAP fluctuation of RM/PM)
• Monitoring AND REPORTING OF mis-Monthly reports on forex allocation, material in transit, sourcing saving during the month.
• Ensuring that orders made to vendors are delivered and constant follow-up in case of delays.
• Coordinating with external interfaces i.e. banks, insurance shipping etc. for the material import process.
• Coordinating with the clearing agencies for clearing the shipment from the port
• Verification of inward material in terms of quality and quantity in accordance with R&D
• Maintaining all purchase-related ISO documents.
• Ensuring all required documents against import maintained in transit operation file (TR file) -full set of correct shipping documents, cost checking and finalization of declaration with customs and NBE
• Handling audits with customs
• Assist in stock taking activities as requested.
• Supervising team members
• Technical team for new RM development, supplier information in case of sourcing for new RM/PM, and shortage of materials.
• Coordinate with the finance team for all payments-related issues for suppliers.
• Coordinate with central IT team for any system issues, new development improvements in the current process
• Any other duties assigned

Job Title: Assistant procurement manager

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Functional Relationships: Finance, Production, Warehouse ,Sales Team, Customs, ESL, EAL, MOI, Vendor.

Reporting to:  Operations Manager

About You

Minimum Educational & Experience Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree in logistics and supply chain management, purchasing and supply chain management, business management or any other related field of study with
• Minimum of (7) years of relevant experience as out of which three(3) years as senior procurement officer/procurement/category specialist of equivalent capacity preferably in MFG industry.

Required competence level (additional skill & behavior) 

• Superior attention to detail; skills such as analytic; critical thinking; problem-solving; multi-tasking abilities are required in addition to integrity, and honesty
• Flexibility and ability to stay effective and motivated in a fast-changing environment.
• Knowledge of local laws of the country
• Proficient in MS word, MS excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Outlook
• Able to work under pressure and complete the task within a preset time-frame
• Good inter-personal & communication skills