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Sinomtha  Mase

Sinomtha Mase

Current Business Lead
Port Elizabeth

Summary

Excelled in formulating budgets, leading negotiations, and driving procurement strategies that align with organizational goals. Demonstrates exceptional team leadership and problem-solving skills, significantly enhancing operational workflows and stakeholder management. Dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Current Business Lead

Isuzu Motors South Africa
07.2023 - Current

Main responsibility is formulating the budget for the Direct Procurement team. Performing monthly tracking of budget performance and intervene when necessary. First level of escalation for supplier negotiations, as well as first level of approval for supplier price adjustments. Supporting buyers with material pricing indexing for standard material and other encompassing materials. Responsible for also handling all ad-hoc tasks in between. Stand-in for Direct Procurement manager.

Lead Buyer (Structures)

Isuzu Motors South Africa
07.2022 - 06.2023

Responsible for sustainable sourcing of steel and consumable goods based of cost, delivery, quality and transformation. Maintaining pricing performance through negotiations with local suppliers.

Commodity Buyer (Interior Parts)

Volkswagen Group South Africa
11.2020 - 06.2022

Responsible for sourcing interior goods for the VW270 and VW250 polo. The responsibility extends to both local and international suppliers. Aligning purchasing strategy with international commodity team. Creating a savings business plan based on savings from local and international suppliers.

Procurement Specialist

Mercedes-Benz South Africa
07.2019 - 10.2020

Main responsibility is the sourcing of goods required for production and maintaining the price levels for those parts, for both current production run and future production parts for the next project, W205 & W206.

Localisation Procurement Specialist

Mercedes-Benz South Africa
10.2017 - 06.2019

Main responsibility is to tracking the sourcing of parts. Maintaining current local content and also retrieving back local content lost.

Graduate Student

Mercedes-Benz South Africa
01.2017 - 09.2017

Apprenticeship in the Supplier Quality Management team where I work with SQE to perform quality assessment of goods. The majority part of my job entails co-ordination of projects for the quality department and tracking approval status of parts prior to production build.

Student Intern

Mercedes-Benz South Africa
02.2016 - 12.2016

Intern in the Procurement team where I help buyers with ad-hoc tasks and have micro responsibilities of creating weekly dashboard reports to track progress of the team's key objectives. Responsibilities include running level 4/5 weekly SPM.

Education

B Commerce Economics (Honours) Financial Markets - Applied Economics

University of Fort Hare
East London, South Africa
04.2001 -

Bachelor Degree in Business Economics - Business Economics

University of Fort Hare
East London
04.2001 -

Skills

    Strategic Thinking

    Operations management

    Team leadership

    Stakeholder management

    Operational efficiency

    Teamwork

    Problem-solving

    Multitasking

    Self motivation

Timeline

Current Business Lead

Isuzu Motors South Africa
07.2023 - Current

Lead Buyer (Structures)

Isuzu Motors South Africa
07.2022 - 06.2023

Commodity Buyer (Interior Parts)

Volkswagen Group South Africa
11.2020 - 06.2022

Procurement Specialist

Mercedes-Benz South Africa
07.2019 - 10.2020

Localisation Procurement Specialist

Mercedes-Benz South Africa
10.2017 - 06.2019

Graduate Student

Mercedes-Benz South Africa
01.2017 - 09.2017

Student Intern

Mercedes-Benz South Africa
02.2016 - 12.2016

B Commerce Economics (Honours) Financial Markets - Applied Economics

University of Fort Hare
04.2001 -

Bachelor Degree in Business Economics - Business Economics

University of Fort Hare
04.2001 -
Sinomtha MaseCurrent Business Lead