Paulene Radley

Procurement

• Manage supplier relationships international and domestic, ensuring timely deliveries and products meeting required specifications.
• Seek out new potential supply sources and new products.
• Negotiate pricing with suppliers, ensuring prices meet with market expectations.
• Cost materials into store for ex stock sales from international currencies to obtain landed costs.
• Create (RMS) Raw Material Specification sheets.
• Create Purchase Orders in SAP system and / or Purchase Requisitions.
• Establish strong rapport with vendors resulting in improved payment terms without compromising quality or service levels.
• Ensure clear understanding of Australian Quarantine requirements for importing.
• Assist with business stock control via monitoring end of month stocks .

Sales / Administration.

• Manage customer draw down (blanket orders) via spreadsheets.
• Manage customer consignment stocks, develop & maintain spreadsheets to capture data.
• Cost materials for direct delivery via ocean freight to customers for sales.
• Create quotations awaiting approvals by senior management.
• Discuss with customers upcoming requirements. Communicate with management level and shop floor level customers.
• Monitor customer usages and forecast future demand based on reported data from customers and SAP reports.
• Arrange monthly delivery schedules with customers and in turn with transport carriers.
• Create deliveries in SAP.
• Raise documentation for export sales.
• Face to face contact with customers at site if required.
• Ensure materials picked by stores are correct to Picking Sheets provided.
• Observe trucks being loaded to ensure correct material are loaded.

Other duties as required for absentee / holiday cover.

• Assist Logistics Department with shipping tracking.
• Liaise with supplier shipping contacts.
• Liaise with freight forwarders, clearing, customs agents.
• Raise productions sheets for warehouse staff for repackaging of materials.
• Raise invoices.
• Train other new staff in tasks as required.

Operations Manager

• Scheduling of production for manufacturing operations, crushing, mixing, repackaging to meet with client demands domestic and export.
• Create production sheets.
• Ordering of packaging materials, drums, pallets, bags, paint
• Ordering of domestic raw materials for manufacturing operations.
• Ordering safety wear, masks, footwear, overalls, hearing protection, glasses.
• Ordering of some mechanical spare parts.
• QC testing of crushed materials.
• Scheduling of forklift mechanical maintenance.
• Ensure factory staff operated complaint with worksafe
• legislation.

Customer Service Manager

• Schedule deliveries of manufactured and traded materials.
• Communicate with customers forecast demands to enable production of required materials.
• Visit customers interstate, Victoria & QLD.
• Process shipping documents.

• Raising of international purchase contracts.
• Manage contracts through to delivery.
• PA to International Trading Manager.