Purchasing and Logistics Manager

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🔥 3 hours ago

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔗 Supply Chain

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VirtuHire

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

Recruitment • HR Tech • SaaS

VirtuHire is a remote recruiting and employer-of-record service focused on connecting businesses with vetted South African talent. The company rigorously vets candidates and provides a curated shortlist, interview scheduling, onboarding, payroll, compliance, and full employee management. It offers a no-fee recruitment process, advertises cost savings versus local hires, and emphasizes English proficiency, university-educated candidates, and industry experience. Metrics provided include clients served, hires made, and a high retention rate. VirtuHire positions itself as a partner handling hiring, EOR services, and HR administration to let clients focus on growth.

📋 Description

• Raise POs for components, machined parts, bulk hair colour, cartridges, packaging and consumables in the MRP system • Obtain written supplier order confirmations with price, quantity and delivery date; chase outstanding confirmations • Track open POs against confirmed dates, escalate slippage and agree recovery plans • Match supplier invoices to POs and receipts; flag discrepancies to finance • Book and manage inbound and outbound sea, air and road freight from China, Europe and the US into US and UK operations • Prepare commercial invoices, packing lists, certificates of origin and dangerous-goods paperwork for aerosol cartridges (UN 1950) • Work with customs brokers and freight forwarders on US and UK import entries, HS classification, origin and duties • Run monthly salon replenishment shipments with US and UK 3PLs • Set up and manage reverse logistics for empty cartridges from salons • Maintain accurate inventory and in-transit stock across warehouses, 3PLs and contract fillers • Serve as day-to-day contact for contract manufacturers, machine shops, fillers, extruders and packaging suppliers • Maintain supplier records, lead times, MOQs and pricing in the MRP system • Report weekly on open POs, inbound shipments and stock cover

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in purchasing, supply chain or logistics for a physical product, with at least 2 years running international shipments • Hands-on US operations experience: US customs entries, US freight forwarders and carriers, domestic LTL/parcel • Import/export experience on both sides: cleared goods into the US and shipped goods out of it • Experience managing POs end to end: raising, confirming, expediting and receiving • Comfortable with incoterms, HS codes, commercial documentation and landed-cost thinking • Organised and persistent: keep a clean tracker and chase until getting an answer • Fluent English • Able to work across US and UK time zones • Dangerous-goods (aerosol / hazmat) shipping experience, IATA/IMDG/49 CFR • Experience sourcing and importing from Chinese and European suppliers, including sea-freight consolidation • Experience with an MRP/ERP system for purchasing and inventory • Experience in a start-up or small manufacturing company where the process was built rather than inherited