Head of Procurement at Workforce Group
Employment Nigeria
03-Apr-2024
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LAGOS ,
HR
Workforce Group is a Management Consulting and Outsourcing Professional Services Firm. Following its inception in July 2004, Workforce Management Centre Limited (Workforce) has built an enviable reputation as the leading indigenous management and professional services consulting firm in Nigeria. Drawing from its Deep Domain Expertise, in the area of organizational effectiveness and employee performance, the Company is positioned to assist businesses across diverse sectors of the economy in their quest to create sustainable value for their stakeholders.
We are recruiting on behalf of its client to fill the position below:
Job Title: Head of Procurement
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Core Responsibilities
- Purchase goods, materials, components, or services in line with specified cost, quality and delivery targets.
- Ensure continuous supply of required materials and communicate any supply problems which may pose a risk or impact the business.
- Negotiate contracts, improve prices and terms of business with suppliers/vendors and review opportunities to make business savings utilising negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods.
- Assess and evaluate suppliers and undertake performance reviews to ensure contract compliance and manage performance improvement activities.
- Ensure compliance to company guidelines, project management principles, purchasing policies and procedures.
- Assess tenders and quotations from potential vendors/suppliers.
- Prepare purchase orders in line with final negotiations with selected suppliers and in line with organisational targets and requirements.
- Ensure 100% compliance to internal policies and processes.
- Develop ideas and strategies to improve operational efficiency, add value, aid business performance and work towards a strategy of continuous improvement.
- Assist internal and external customers by interpreting laws, policy, codes, and regulations pertaining to procurement.
- Work collaboratively and negotiate and engage with stakeholders and suppliers regarding supplies and initiatives and advise of impact of change on purchasing and production activities.
- Stay current and up to date on any changes that may affect the supply and demand of needed products and materials and advise others of any impact.
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years procurement experience in a Manufacturing or retail environment.
- Hands-on experience with indirect materials and procurement for construction projects.
- Experience in Logistics Expenditures.
- Strategic Sourcing Capability
- Procurement Process Improvement.
- Planning and Organization
- Vendor Management
- Excellent Negotiation Skills
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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