• Application Deadline:
• Position: Head of Procurement - Port Harcourt


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 10 years


• Location Rivers


• City Port Harcourt


• Job Field Procurement / Store-keeping / Supply Chain 
  

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