• Application Deadline:
• Position: Source to Contract Buyer



• Job Type Full Time



• Qualification BA/BSc/HND



• Experience 3 - 5 years



• Location Lagos




• Job Field Procurement / Store-keeping / Supply Chain 
  
  

The Source-to-Contract Buyer is responsible for the facilitation/implementation of the category sourcing strategy by performing all sourcing plans for Procurement Categories globally and will closely cooperate with the category and/or business procurement managers.

The Source-to-Contract Buyer will take end to end responsibility of the sourcing to the contracting processes and a proper handover to PSSC for content creation. This will mean among other tasks: set up, lead tender events, analyse, negotiate autonomously or along with category or business procurement managers, contract, on/off-board suppliers.

Thereby the Source-to-Contract Buyer will have an important contribution to develop the Source-to-Contract Team to a more and more professional level and by increasing capabilities, implementing efficiencies, improving processes, speed and quality. They will achieve it by creating trust and engaging the category and/or business procurement managers to take over all sourcing activities, as well as other procurement operations colleagues on sourcing related activities, thus driving best-in-class results and compliance

What we ask

• At least 3-5 years of experience in the field of Procurement at a multinational company or a Shared Service organization


• End to end understanding of the source to pay process


• Experience in building RFx events


• Understanding of e-Sourcing methodologies


• Able to quickly and accurately analyse, conclude and summarize results


• Reporting experience


• Knowledge of Procurement processes


• Comfortable with ERP and e-sourcing tools


• Proven experience with (category/business) Procurement


• Proven experience with process and system optimization


• Strong internal stakeholder management


• Supplier management


• Excellent written and verbal communication


• Good proficiency at presenting and influencing


• Strong negotiation skills


• Attention to details


• Ability to work autonomously


• Ability to make decisions on own level


• Continuous improvement mindset


• Change agility


• Result-orientation


• Strong resilience


• “owner’s mindset”: ability to work collaboratively for the company’s best interest beyond silos


• Tools knowledge and ability to challenge tool providers for improvement. (Indicative) list of tools: Ariba, Keelvar, Finscan, Duns & Bradstreet, Coupa CLM, SafeFood360, SAP (viewing), SQM


• Advanced proficiency in MS office tools, especially in Excel


• Excellent English


• Dutch or any additional European language skill is an advantage