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Supply Chain Manager Jobs in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa at BBI Solutions – Maine (Formerly Maine Biotechnology Services)
Title: Supply Chain Manager
Company: BBI Solutions – Maine (Formerly Maine Biotechnology Services)
Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Vacancy NameSupply Chain Manager Vacancy NoVN937 BasisPermanent Duration Work LocationCape Town Job Details
BBI exists to help our customers create advances that improve health and save lives. We are seeking a Supply Chain Manager to join our team. This is a permanent, full-time position based at our site in Cape Town. Join our team: advancing health, together.
The Role
Support the global network of delivering products and services across the entire supply chain, from raw materials to end customers. Engage in design, planning, execution, control and supervision of supply chain activities with the objective of creating net value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronizing supply and demand and measuring performance globally.
In This Role Your Responsibilities Will Include
- Identify and appoint supplier partners.
- Establish an adequate program to ensure supplied materials conform to set specifications either by inspection or management of Quality at Suppliers
- Maintain an Approved Supplier List and only purchase from approved Suppliers.
- Negotiate and set standards of supply and pricing for third party materials and services.
- Warehouse raw materials, WIP and Finished Goods inventories.
- Allocate and maintain material handling equipment.
- Review product demand forecasts.
- Master Production Scheduling.
- Sales and Operations Planning.
- Materials Requirement Planning
- Application of Lean and six- sigma in reducing and eliminating waste and variances in the supply chain.
- Management, motivation and development of departmental staff.
- Strong negotiating skills.
- Liaising with the forklift driver effectively and monitoring their work standards together with the Stores team members.
- Manage stock and ensuring adequate stock rotation is practiced.
- Cycle counts and Stock counts.
- Filing of documents – record control measures
- Responsible for establishing an adequate program to ensure supplied materials conform to set specifications either by inspection or management of Quality at Suppliers
- Management of SLA’s for all suppliers.
- Review costing on key raw materials.
- Ensure that a plan is drawn up and executed
- Manage the planning and communicating it to Production.
- Improvement of OTIF to >95%
- Role clarification of the team of SCM and set up a succession plan.
- Packing and shipping requirements of various countries as well as importation permits.
- Customer complaints are routed through this function.
- Sales staff requires extensive information on materials and process as well as availability dates.
- Packing and shipping requirements of various countries as well as importation permits.
- OTIF delivery to customer.
- Ensure all ad-hoc expenses outside of the BOM are communicated to Supply Chain.
- Compliance to local and international standards as well as the Department of Agriculture requirements.
- GMP and QA compliance.
- Continual communication with suppliers, customers and sales staff.
- Ensuring that group financial standards and internal controls are set up and maintained, any over expenditure to be approved by the Value Stream Leader.
- Stock evaluation and monitoring to be controlled by SCM.
- Implementation of International Regulations for import and export.
- Forecasting and sales order interpretation and review.
- Compile and manage strategic planning of the business.
- Implementation of strategic supplier relationships and understanding of key suppliers and support they require.
- Co-ordination and joint co-operation with other supply chain management within BBI Solutions.
- Continuous improvement.
- Training of other staff members to ensure skills are not residing in one person.
- Innovative and results orientated with can do attitude to challenges and problem solving.
You Should Apply If
- Supply Chain Specific Certification (CSCP, APICS, CPIM, CPSM, CTL, SAPICS).
- Experience in a FMCG environment
- Experience in logistics within a manufacturing environment
- Experience working in a cGMP pharmaceutical environment would be advantageous
- Experience in price negotiations within a manufacturing and costing environment.
- Experience in ERP/MRP systems within a manufacturing environment.
- ERP experience – planning and financial system – SAGE would be advantageous
- Warehouse and transportation management.
- Risk Management.
- Foundations of Business Management.
- Understanding of financial principles and stock holding.
Our Recruitment Process
If this role sounds like it’s for you, click ‘apply’ today. Once we’ve received your application, a member of our recruitment team will be in touch to arrange a call. On this call, we’ll be able to tell you a lot more about working here at BBI Solutions, how ‘a day in the life’ of this position looks and discuss the next stages of the recruitment process.
If you are an internal employee applying for this vacancy you and your manager are required to complete an internal transfer form. This needs to be completed in full and attached to your application along with your CV and cover letter.
As part of career development and succession planning internal applicants will receive priority consideration initially, please ensure that you apply within the initial two-week period to support this.
Why Choose BBI
We are committed to promoting and protecting the physical, financial, and emotional well-being of all our employees. With our employees focused on others, we’re focused on them. That’s why, at BBI, we’re dedicated to providing our employees with access to global resources and site-specific benefits that support their health and wellbeing.
- Provident Fund
- % Contributory Retirement Scheme
- Death in Service Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Funeral Benefit
- Private Healthcare Scheme
- 15 days Annual Leave, which increases by 1 day per annum to 20 days
- Birthday leave
- Long Service Awards
- Global Employee Wellbeing Programme
- Reward and Recognition Programme
- Commitment to Career Development
- Refer A Friend Scheme
- State of the Art Facilities – Certified Centres of Excellence
We’re also focused on development, creating an environment that allows our employees to nurture their talent and empowers you to make a difference. This is achieved by providing our employees with access to learning opportunities to help achieve personal career goals.
About BBI
For more than 70 years, we’ve been perfecting reagents, both native and recombinant, to help IVD and life-science teams turn breakthrough ideas into reliable, life-saving advances.
Great products are only the start. From troubleshooting tricky performance issues and customising reagents to meeting new regulatory standards, our scientists work to clear obstacles and accelerate progress. That’s why we continue to invest millions in new recombinant capabilities that help create diagnostics that improve health and save lives – in a more ethical and sustainable way than ever before.
Equal Opportunities
BBI are an equal opportunity employer and believe in fair treatment for all candidates. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, gender expression, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We ask that all applicants complete an equal opportunity monitoring form on a voluntary basis, with all submissions remaining anonymous. The information on the form will be used for monitoring purposes only and will not be used in any decision affecting you.
“AA candidates will be given preference in line with our AA requirements; however, we will select candidates from all groups.”
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