Purpose:

Responsible to organize, support and plan all activities related to direct purchasing of raw materials, spare parts technical services related to factory production.

Main Areas of Responsibility:

• Follow up of purchase requests conversion to purchase orders and follow intercompany procurement procedures.
• Communicate with approved suppliers to get inland cost and other related costs, calculate Transfer Price (TP) and communicate with intercompany process’ stakeholders ordering to maintain the TP price.
• Share demand forecast with suppliers.
• Analyze lot size, negotiate materials readiness time, advice mode of transport considering the different lead times and related logistics costs & receive PFI
• Maintain mandatory data into Ethiopian Single Window (ESW)
• Follow up of FX approval processes on the ESW, prepare priority list for FX approval and generate periodical status report.
• Prepare shipping instructions, follow on timely cargo dispatch, check correctness of the shipping documents before final release; follow up timely documents arrival at local banks and generate status reports.

Education:

• BA degree, in Purchase and Supply Management, Management, Accounting and others related fields.

Work experience:

• Minimum 4 years of professional experience in foreign purchase or in production planning

Knowledge:

• Fluent command of English, both written and spoken.
• MS Office – confident user; Excel – advanced