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DEADLINE: 03/01/2025

Procurement Assistant

Full-time

We are hiring a Procurement Assistant

Job Ref. No. MIUL/PA/12/24/KLA

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Send Request for Quotations (RFQs) to suppliers, ensuring competitive and accurate pricing.
  • Facilitate pre-approvals in SharePoint, ensuring compliance with company procedures.
  • Prepare comparison forms for both local and import purchases, helping to determine the best sourcing options.
  • Ensure that all deliveries are made as per purchase orders, managing supplier performance and delivery schedules.
  • Create purchase orders for both local and import items in SAP, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
  • Process inbound deliveries for import purchases and coordinate logistics.
  • Work closely with the finance department to ensure timely payments to suppliers.
  • Follow up with suppliers on the readiness of consignments, ensuring smooth logistics and avoiding delays.
  • Ensure Goods Receipt Notes (GRNs) are processed for all incoming shipments.
  • Track and maintain the status of insurance reports and ensure all necessary insurance documentation is up to date.
  • Monitor and report the cargo status for sea consignments, ensuring timely and accurate updates.
  • Maintain accurate filing systems for custom entries, ensuring proper documentation and compliance.
  • Compile and submit the insurance report for import shipments, ensuring all necessary details are included.
  • Perform any other duties assigned from time to time.

 

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Procurement and Supply Chain Management.
  • 2 years ’experience in procurement

Skills & Professional Attributes Required

  • Sourcing knowledge of spares / Consumables through local and import sources.
  • Technical knowledge of all maintenance equipment, operation and maintenance, transport vehicles.
  • Knowledge about import procedures, Documentation, Statutory Obligations like SGS inspection.
  • Knowledge in shipment mode like Sea, Air and its procedures.
  • Good knowledge of Customs regulations and procedures.
  • Strong understanding of commodity market conditions.?
  • Experience in commodity purchasing.?
  • Strong analytical and excellent communication skills.?
  • Work well under pressure and able to work independently.
  • Good writing, documentation and coordination skills.
  • Demonstrate collaboration, negotiation and influencing skills.?
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.?
  • Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office.

 

How to Apply:

All candidate should apply online at the link below

 

CLICK HERE TO APPLY

 

Deadline: 3rd January 2025

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About Mukwano Industries Uganda Ltd

Industry: Procurement & Logistics
Location: Kampala, Uganda
The Mukwano Group of Companies is the leading manufacturer of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) in the Great Lakes region, producing a wide range of market leader brands in soaps, edible cooking oils and fats, detergents, beverages, personal care products and plastics.

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