Procurement

• Run the operational side of every purchase order for two buyers
• Build price approval and wire approval packets from buyer deal sheets
• Attach correct supporting documents to approval requests
• Log and follow up on open approvals using a tracker
• File item setup and vendor setup requests with the ERP partner
• Collect UPCs, package and master carton dimensions and weights, box photos, W-9s, resale certificates, and compliance documents from vendors
• Submit and verify purchase order request details, including vendor, freight, payment, warehouse, sales group, and customer information
• Review draft purchase orders line by line and approve or return complete corrections
• File retroactive purchase orders for card and marketplace purchases
• Assemble wire requests including approval, purchase order, proforma invoice, and paying account
• Call vendors to verify banking details before wire submission
• Relay wire confirmations and follow up on ship dates, tracking, invoices, and routing forms
• Coordinate with logistics to schedule pickups and track orders through receipt
• Match received quantities to paid quantities and flag discrepancies
• Draft short-ship or damage notices for buyer review
• Collect invoices for accounting and maintain organized, current records
• Complete a 30-day paid pilot by running the full purchase order chain on a new order unaided and maintaining the open-items tracker

Purchasing Coordinator

• Proactively search property portals to identify potential investment opportunities, including price-reduced, extended-listing, undervalued, or non-mortgageable stock
• Contact and build relationships with UK estate agents via telephone and email
• Inquire about current or upcoming stock and negotiate potential purchase opportunities
• Maintain recurring leads
• Research property auction catalogues, including multiple lots with potential for title splitting, commercial buildings, farms, land, and refurbishment projects
• Conduct initial research into comparable property sales and local market conditions using publicly available information
• Maintain a structured database recording property details, asking prices, reductions, estimated potential, and identified structural or legal issues
• Collate and present suitable, fully researched property opportunities to leadership for further assessment

Property Sourcing Specialist

• Raise and track purchase orders
• Obtain and compare supplier quotes
• Maintain supplier records and contract details
• Chase deliveries and resolve invoice queries with finance
• Produce monthly spend reports
• Work closely with suppliers and the finance team
• Keep records clean and spend visible
• Join the client's existing team with a named manager in the UK, regular video check-ins, and clear goals

Procurement Administrator

• Own sourcing for a design-led kitchen, cooking, and food brand scaling to 15 launches per year
• Take product specifications, mockups, and design briefs from the founder and identify suitable suppliers
• Identify and approach 5-6 potential suppliers per product
• Obtain NNN agreements and supplier quotes
• Negotiate pricing, MOQs, lead times, samples, and production terms
• Manage supplier conversations regarding design and component options
• Check in with the founder on product decisions
• Use the company's unit economics framework, including HTS codes, cost sheets, and ocean freight, to validate product viability
• Drive products through the process until they are checked into FBA in the United States, defining the launch

Product Sourcing Specialist

• Own and maintain project risk registers across financial close, EPC contract and COD phases
• Consolidate risk inputs from Engineering, Construction, Legal, Finance, Sustainability, SED and O&M
• Quantify time-at-risk and cost-at-risk contingencies using a documented methodology
• Escalate high-priority and emerging risks with proposed courses of action
• Evaluate free-issue/owner-supplied equipment models, including risk transfer, warranty, wrap, single-point-responsibility and bankability implications
• Design contractor and supplier pre-qualification criteria
• Conduct pre-qualification audits and produce recommendation memos
• Coordinate RFP adjudication from evaluation-criteria design through final recommendation
• Design weighted evaluation criteria and auditable scoring processes
• Constitute discipline-specific panels and enforce Chinese walls
• Manage bidder clarifications through a single channel and produce auditable recommendation reports
• Identify and manage conflicts of interest
• Maintain supplier and contractor databases, strategic interaction registers and gift declaration registers
• Produce monthly transparency reports
• Audit suppliers and contractors post-award and monitor corrective actions
• Develop supplier performance metrics and feed findings into re-pre-qualification decisions
• Run lessons-learned processes after every financial close and COD
• Update pre-qualification criteria, evaluation criteria, EPC templates and risk taxonomy
• Establish supplier quality-management frameworks
• Maintain procurement filing structures and document registers
• Develop procurement governance processes, checklists and audit trails
• Conduct procurement process audits with internal auditors
• Support counterparty screening/KYC checks

Quality & Risk Manager – Procurement

• Raise and track purchase orders against approved requests
• Chase suppliers on order confirmations and delivery dates
• Match invoices to orders and flag discrepancies
• Maintain supplier records and price lists
• Prepare simple spend and order reports
• Support the buying team with quotes and comparisons

Procurement jobs in South Africa

Purchasing Coordinator

Property Sourcing Specialist

Procurement Administrator

Product Sourcing Specialist

Quality & Risk Manager – Procurement

Purchasing Assistant