Operations & Supply Chain Specialist

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🕒 August 18

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

💵 $2.5k / month

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔗 Supply Chain

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NewVine Employment Group

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201 - 500 employees

🎯 Recruiter

📦 Logistics

Recruitment • Logistics

NewVine Employment Group is a boutique staffing and recruiting agency based in South Florida, specializing in the perishables and logistics industries. With a focus on personalized service, they aim to meet the specific needs of both clients and candidates, enhancing satisfaction and workplace happiness. Their areas of expertise include logistics, warehousing, import/export, cold chain management, and a variety of roles from administrative to technical professions.

📋 Description

• Create and manage purchase orders with overseas suppliers, primarily in China, tracking lead times and follow-ups. • Coordinate with US-based finished-goods manufacturing partners to ensure packaging and hardware arrive on time, production schedules stay on track, and finished goods flow to 3PLs. • Drive the sales and operations planning process, including demand forecasting, supply planning, and continuous improvement of forecast accuracy. • Coordinate with US-based 3PL warehouses on inbound receipts, fulfillment quality, exceptions, and inventory movement. • Coordinate international shipments of packaging and hardware to licensed partners in Europe and other countries. • Track inventory positions and reorder points and flag stock-out risk early. • Run the order desk, including order processing and fulfillment support for a national retailer network. • Build AI-driven automations for reporting, tracking, and routine coordination. • Build and maintain forecast models, supply chain KPIs, and efficiency reporting.

🎯 Requirements

• Based in South Africa. • 3+ years in supply chain, purchasing, or operations for a distribution, CPG, or e-commerce business. • Demonstrated AI fluency; daily use of AI tools and previous automation of real workflows, with examples. • Real forecasting and S&OP experience, including building the model. • Hands-on coordination experience with 3PLs and/or contract manufacturers. • Advanced spreadsheets required. • ERP experience strongly preferred. • Extreme attention to detail and follow-through. • Fluent business English. • Ability to work a split schedule covering China and US time windows. • Bonus: direct experience with Chinese manufacturers and freight forwarders. • Bonus: contract manufacturing/co-packer coordination in CPG. • Bonus: just-in-time or lean inventory management, landed-cost analysis, and import/export documentation. • Bonus: experience supporting a fast-scaling retail distribution network.

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunities for professional growth and career development. • Collaborative and supportive working environment. • Ongoing training and professional development. • Opportunity to help build and improve a modern international supply chain. • Exposure to suppliers, manufacturers, logistics providers, fulfilment operations, and retail distribution. • Meaningful responsibility and the opportunity to make a direct impact in a lean, growing business.