Procurement Manager at WTS Energy Full Time

Job Title: Procurement Manager

Locations: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Summary

• Responsible for sourcing equipment, goods and services and managing vendors.
• Performing strategic procurement activities across multiple categories of spend, search for better deals and find more profitable suppliers.
• Ensuring that business purchases the goods and services that will best help achieve our corporate goals, by finding supplier partners that strike a balance between quality and cost.

Core Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop, lead, and execute procurement strategies.
• Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness.
• Craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure clear requirements documentation.
• Forecast price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier power.
• Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking.
• Assess, manage and mitigate risks whilst partnering with reliable vendors and suppliers.
• Determine quantity and timing of deliveries.
• Monitor and forecast upcoming levels of demand.
• Manage overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of procurement for the facility.
• Implement procurement strategies to maintain security of supply and optimum value for money.
• Perform all procurement and contracting activities including pre-qualification, tender management,
• negotiation and preparation of contracts.
• Set policy and guidelines for delivering commercial and cost-effective procuring process for the business.
• Develop key relationships with business stakeholders and strategic supply partners to improve business.
• Implement change and develop new processes to better procure goods and services.
• Negotiate contracts with suppliers to obtain best price and service.
• Analyze market and delivery trends to develop procurement technologies and processes that support those trends.
• Conduct business review meetings with key stakeholders to assess risk, review future strategies, and identify potential cost down and improvement opportunities.
• Provide periodic reporting for management on purchasing, controls, and processes.
• Develop supplier database and establish annual purchasing contracts for lower value, high value items.
• Develop workflow process in line with ERP software system.
• Ensure principles of value for money, transparency, fairness, efficiency, and accountability are evident in all dealings.
• Advise senior management and improve procurement process.
• Delegating Task and supervising the work of purchasing and procurement across all business units.
• Performing all procurement activities including pre-qualification, negotiation supplier agreement, preparing contract and tender management.
• Creating policies and procedure for risk management and mitigation for procurement
• Develops and implements strategies for procuring, storing, and distributing goods or services and maintaining stock levels.
• Your job description may vary from time to time due to amendment and additional duties as required.

QMS, EMS & QH&SMS Responsibilities:

• Ensure the quality of their work.
• Operate in conformance with the requirements of the QMS; and
• Stop work in progress to make appropriate notifications when unsafe conditions exist or
• requirements are not being met.
• Proactive in ensuring the accomplishment of organizational goals along with self-development.
• Willing to take up additional roles and responsibilities as and when required.
• Awareness, understanding and application of EMS and OHS policies on assigned jobs
• Awareness, understanding and application departmental /process EMS and OHS objectives.
• Awareness on all possible hazards from assigned tasks and risk associated with assigned task and it identification and relevant controls required.
• Awareness on possible Environmental aspect from related activities, how it can impact the environment and relevant controls required.
• Awareness of your contribution to the effectiveness of the EMS and OHS, including the benefits of improved performance and associated opportunities for improvement of processes assigned.
• Awareness of the implications of not conforming with SECRL EMS and OHS requirements including associated aspects and risks for the process assigned.

Qualifications & Experience

• BS Degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics or Business Administration.
• Must have at least 15 years procurement experience in Construction or Drilling Business.
• Familiarity with sourcing and vendor management.
• Interest in market dynamics along with business sense.
• A flair for negotiation and networking.
• Working experience of vendor management software.
• Ability to gather and analyze data and to work with figures.
• Solid judgment with ability to make good decisions.
• Strong leadership capabilities.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.