Sales Administrator

Top Vitae; Oos-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 240,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Top Vitae is seeking a proactive Sourcing Operations Assistant to support the sourcing team by coordinating demand, supply, logistics, and finance-related tasks. You will assist the Head of Sourcing with backroom operations, analysis and reporting.

The role involves coordinating with logistics, tracking KPIs and completing tasks related to stock creation and harvest orders, with exposure to product management and exporters. Strong MS Office skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in agriculture or related field.
• 1-3 years of agribusiness, logistics or finance experience.
• Proficiency in Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel; PowerBI advantageous.
• Fresh produce sourcing and procurement practices.
• Understanding of agricultural production cycles.
• MS Office 365 competency.

Responsibilities

• Communication & Reporting.
• Coordination of all sourcing supply, demand and planning.
• Liaison with Logistics department and Sourcing Stock Management.
• Tracking of Sourcing Department KPI measurements.
• Handle finance related requirements for department (SAP stock creation and harvest orders).
• Assist Head of Sourcing with product manager and third-party exporters.
• Customer order fulfilment and signing of invoices.
• Weekly Producer Analysis review & queries to stakeholders.

Skills

Outlook

PowerPoint

Excel

PowerBI

AI language models

Noda

Education

Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Agriculture / Agribusiness / Agricultural Economics / Supply Chain Management / Procurement

Tools

MS Office 365

Job description

To support the sourcing team in coordinating all information like demand, supply, logistics, commercial etc. to the Sourcing Team, to other company departments and producers. The position will also be assisting the Head of Sourcing in all backroom operations, analysis and reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Communication & Reporting.

• Coordination of all sourcing supply, demand and planning.

• Constant liaison with Logistics department and Sourcing Stock Management.

• Tracking of Sourcing Department KPI measurements.

• Handling all finance related requirements for department (SAP stock creation and harvest orders etc.)

• Assist Head of Sourcing with product manager and third-party exporters.

• Customer order fulfilment and signing of on customer invoices.

• Weekly Producer Analysis review & queries to all stake holders.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Agriculture, Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, business or a related field; or equivalent vocational training and relevant experience.

• 1-3 years of experience in agribusiness, logistics, finance, fruit industry agriculture activities like farming management or packhouse quality management.

• Needs to be very sufficient in the use of Outlook, Power Point and Excel. Experience in AI language models, Noda and PowerBI will be advantageous.

• Fruit Export experience in any capacity is not necessary but will be very advantageous.

• Fresh produce sourcing and procurement practices.

• Production planning.

• Supply chain coordination.

• Knowledge of fresh produce quality standards and compliance requirements.

• Data analysis and reporting.

• Understanding of agricultural production cycles

• Strong level of competency with MS Office 365

Please consider your application unsuccessful if you do not receive a response within two weeks of applying.