Assistant Manager M/F

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CFAO South Africa is a key player in South Africa’s mobility market.
With more than 7,200 colleagues and over 160 sites, CFAO South Africa offers vehicle and truck sales and rentals, supply chain solutions, logistics management, material handling, automotive assembly, and the import and export of automotive components.

We are a regional division of the pan-African business CFAO Group, headquartered in France and a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho Corporation in Japan.

CFAO South Africa has a strong expansion vision in South Africa, while supporting CFAO Group's expansion strategy into the African continent in the automotive sector and other sectors,  including healthcare and renewable energy.

We are a significant contributor to the support, development, and growth of the automotive industry in South Africa and across Africa.

we are looking for    Assistant Manager M/F   based:   South Africa

Job description:

An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Manager position within the Chemicals Team, based in Durban.

 Purpose of the job:

 The Role of the Assistant Manager within the Chemicals Team is to manage the overall operational supply chain and logistics for the department to ensure that efficiency and productivity is maximised. And developing and maintaining good relationships with vendors and customers.                                                                                                           

Experiential and Educational requirements:

• Matric
• Completed tertiary degree in Supply Chain Management.
• Minimum of 3 years related experience in a similar role
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in an end-to-end Supply Chain Environment
• Intermediate Computer literacy (Microsoft Office) & SAP R3 Experience

Required profile :

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Assisting in preparing the Sales Budget, and providing key customer information and sales activity trends
• Coordinating with the team to meet Sales Objective and complete monthly sales analysis.
• Complete Gross Profit analysis, which requires numerical understanding of sales vs cost of sales and report to management, and have a clearly understanding of the GP trends and possible Kaizen of how to improve Gross Profit                       
• Operational management of Networking Capital. With close monitoring of overdue inventory and resolution of damaged and expired inventory.    
•  Customer relationship management (communication, need satisfaction, effective partnership)
• Understanding customer business environment
• Expanding current business with customers   
• Supporting Coordinator with customer visit, negotiation and speedy resolutions of critical customer queries.  
•  Support and co-ordinate key business milestones, as such new project enquiries, trial activities and ensuring positive completion of all Project related tasks  
• Handle process from Request for Quotation, Preparation of quote and order management     
• Supervise and assist in SAP processing     
• Rundown sheet management - Tracking with supplier and customer on hand information 
• First in First Out stock management and control  
•  Ensure monthly task are complete by month end (mainly invoicing, inbound and miro) 
• Ensure queries are resolved timeously - Quality, Damaged Stock, Overdue Debtors, Airfreight cost capturing
• Kaizen   
• Communication with Export country regularly       
• Quarter Pricing submission to customers
• Training related to current job function    
• Training related to future development 
• Company policy to be adhered to.     
• Interpersonal relationship improvement (teamwork, customer, supplier)   
• Complete Special projects and miscellaneous assignments
• Assist with divisional audit, verification of stock count
• Daily Warehouse Visits