CDW Purchasing / Procurement Jobs in Cape Town
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Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we’re the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.
Who we are
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organisations in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies: from start-ups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.
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CDW prides itself on being ‘People Who Get IT’ and ‘People who get People’. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you’ll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self—and your best ideas—to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving—and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.
Key Responsibilities
To ensure the service level to our customers is maximized through a combination of efficient purchasing, at the best possible price
- Develop supplier relationships for a given product set: ensure suppliers always provide information related to deals and promotions and use this information to negotiate better deals. This relationship can be supported by regular meetings where necessary
- To negotiate at any opportunity, to maximise margins, ensuring best price
- Liaise with sales teams to communicate any issues arising with their orders
- Clear and concise interaction with all company departments; notably the sales department
- Ensure purchase orders are loaded correctly to enable quick payment of invoices
- Ensure all changes to purchase orders are recorded on the system
- Liaise with the warehouse to ensure any issues can be resolved in a timely fashion
- Provide cover for other members of the department as necessary and perform other tasks if requested from time to time by the Category Manager
- Support less experienced members of the team in the education of best practice
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Knowledge and experience
- Experience of working in a procurement role, ideally within IT (Understanding of core CDW vendors, beneficial)
- Experienced in dealing with suppliers and contractors, and negotiations to ensure best cost and quality
- Excellent numeracy skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure
- Highly motivated with ability to work under own initiative, making decisions to benefit the business
- Demonstrated attention to detail, time management and organizational skills
- Microsoft Office skills, preferably including: Excel and Word but not essential
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