Job Description
Key Duties:
PROCUREMENT
- Co-ordinate procurement activities such as Purchasing, Expediting, Logistics and Material Handling, ensuring best value through exploring different purchasing options, whilst complying with the company’s procurement strategy.
- Design or implement supply chain policies that support business strategies adapted to changing market conditions, new business opportunities, or cost reduction strategies.
- Drive cost reduction efforts utilizing negotiation techniques, managing transportation costs, and minimize working capital while meeting company objectives.
- Prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders for supplies and equipment.
- Perform procurement cost analysis of materials and equipment based on location, time, consolidation points and developed procurement strategy to achieve desired results.
- Select transportation routes to maximize economy by combining shipments or consolidating warehousing and distribution.
LOGISTICS
- Supervise all logistics, distribution, and transportation process, ensuring efficient and optimized service delivery.
- Keep track of quality, quantity, stock levels, delivery times, transport costs and efficiency within the order cycle.
- Ensure adherence to delivery standards, efficiencies, and regulatory requirements.
- Approve and coordinate routes mapping and schedules.
- Develop and monitor compliance to policies or procedures for logistics activities.
VENDOR MANAGEMENT
- Build and maintain an effective database for tracking OEMs, OEM accredited distributors, stockists, and equipment suppliers.
- Appraise vendor manufacturing ability of materials, equipment or supplies through on-site visits and measurements to determine product availability and terms of sales.
- Monitor supplier performance to assess ability to meet quality and delivery requirements.
- Resolve vendor or contractor grievances, and claims against suppliers.
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
- Negotiate prices, terms and delivery schedules with contractors and vendors / manufacturers to achieve cost reduction.
- Monitor the status of live contracts and purchase orders.
- Review and develop technical/commercial tenders to enhance the quality of tenders submitted to meet client’s specification and standards.
TENDERS & PROPOSAL MANAGEMENT
- Provide guidance and support on all major Tenders and service contracts; Develop and review technical/commercial tenders to enhance the quality of tenders submitted to meet client’s specification and standards.
- Evaluate tenders and select providers in an objective and rigorous way, in line with established guidelines and principles.
- Review of information about demands and derivation of supply and proposal preparations.
- Clarification of bid conditions and management of Tender preparations.
- Proactive monitoring of bids to ensure outcome is aligned with the organization’s success threshold.
- Contribution in cost and price calculations.
- Timely preparation and coordination of tenders to enable critical review and amendments prior to submission deadlines.
- Manage the bid / proposal win strategy and ensure full traceability and rigour in executing the strategy.
- Ensure that the strategy is continually reviewed to reflect changing circumstances.
- Sell the strategy internally and to stakeholders.
- Define and communicate a vision providing focus and energy for the sharing of knowledge.
- Create and sustain inspiration, energy and focus over time.
- Influence and implement commercial strategy to meet the winning price.
- ▪Define cost drivers and pricing.
- Think ‘out of the box’ and advise on the implications of different options.
WAREHOUSING & INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
- Analyse inventory, market, and delivery systems to determine how to increase inventory turns, reduce waste, or optimize customer service.
- Design or implement warehousing strategies for production materials or finished products.
- Maintain records of goods ordered and received.
WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT
- Document physical supply chain processes, such as workflows, cycle times, position responsibilities, or system flows.
- Prepare timely and accurate reports on Supply Chain Management activities and performance against established targets to the CEO.
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
- Maintain good relationship with internal and external customers and lead customer satisfaction projects.
- Research suppliers and maintaining strong business relationships.
- Build and maintain effective and cooperative relationship with relevant government regulatory agencies.
- Put in place Supply Chain strategies to improve the company’s competitive edge.
- Establish and manage a database of approved efficient Customs clearing agents.
- Establish and manage a data base of approved efficient transportation companies.
- Coordinate client inspections of facilities/equipment, material movement and clearing.
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
- Process Mapping of current supply chain processes, develop and implement improvement initiatives.
- Develop supply chain Standard Operating Procedures and drive compliance.
- Define performance metrics for measurement, comparison, or evaluation of supply chain factors, such as product cost or quality.
- Ensure performance is adequately captured, analysed, and utilized for improvement activities.
- Manage Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) process to support revenue forecast, improve On
- Time Delivery (OTD), eliminate material shortages, increase inventory turns, and identify production capacity constraints.
- Select, train, evaluate and develop supply chain staff to facilitate the attainment of company objectives.
JOB REQUIREMENTS EDUCATION:
- Bachelor’s degree in business management, Supply Chain, Engineering, or another related field
- MBA or MSc (Added Advantage)
- Certification in Supply Chain Management required.
- Certification in Project Management
EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum 12 years’ Supply Chain experience with at least 5 years in supervisory capacity in the oil and gas industry