Procurement Transactional Administrator

SGS is the world’s leading Testing, Inspection and Certification company. We operate a network of over 2,500 laboratories and business facilities across 115 countries, supported by a team of 99,500 dedicated professionals. With over 145 years of service excellence, we combine the precision and accuracy that define Swiss companies to help organizations achieve the highest standards of quality, compliance, and sustainability.

Primary Responsibilities

• iProc (Oracle) Coordination
• Suppliers Catalogue maintenance
• Open orders status report and follow-up
• Transactional Analytics (suppliers account queries)

Specific Responsibilities

iProc (Oracle) Coordination

• Coordinate all procurement related iProc transactions (i.e. requisitions, amendments)
• Convert purchase requisitions in to purchase orders
• Approving requisitions
• Challenge non-compliant requisitions
• Point of contact for administrators on existing transactions

Suppliers Catalogue maintenance

• Allocate catalogue additions & amendments to Procurement Specialists
• Coordinate catalogue updates between administrators and Global catalogue team

Open orders status report and follow-up

• Communicate with administrators on long standing open orders
• Send weekly reports on open purchase orders
• Report justifications and statuses

Transactional Analytics

• Finding resolution to problematic transactions with Business and Finance

Education 

• Matric
• Tertiary Qualification (preferred) in Procurement or Administration

Experience

• 3 years' Experience in Procurement administration
• Procurement
• Finance (P2P)
• ERP
• Transactional Administration
• Oracle
• Proficient on MS Office applications, especially Excel

Required Skills

• Attention to detail
• Very organized
• Initiative and proactivity
• Analytics proficiency
• Innovation
• Able to professionally collaborate across all boundaries
• Self confidence
• Excellent Communication and people skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Attention to detail (accuracy)
• Willing to learn and bring new ideas forward for improvement.
• Ability to take decisions based on sound reasoning.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Accuracy
• Adaptability
• Analytical thinking
• Commitment
• Continuous improvement
• Honesty and integrity
• Independent
• Initiative
• Logical thinking
• Self-disciplined and organized
• Team player