HBM Nigeria Plc, formerly known as Lafarge Africa Plc, is a leading Nigerian building solutions company and a member of the Huaxin Building Materials Group, a globally recognized manufacturer of construction materials founded in 1907 and headquartered in Wuhan, China. Listed on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX), HBM Nigeria Plc is actively participating in the urbanisation and economic growth of Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Procurement Operations Manager
Location: Sagamu, Ogun
Job type: Full-time
Job Description
- Implement Procurement strategies in close cooperation with Category Managers on a local level. Manage the operational and tactical procurement of local goods and services.
Role Responsibilities
- Performs all tasks in a safe and efficient manner.
- Manage full local operational purchasing for those needs which are not covered by group.
- Coordinate the implementation of contractor safety management on office premises.
- Coordinate the activities of operational buyer in an ethical manner.
- Set up agreed SLA with internal customers on order processing time and ensure compliance.
- Manage relationship with all stakeholders working strongly and closely with service/goods requesters.
- Generate weekly reports as agreed and communicate to all stakeholders.
- Responsible as the custodian for procurement dashboard.
- Responsible for coordination of daily and weekly purchasing operational review meetings in conjunction with planning team and carrying out necessary actions as agreed escalating to HOP where necessary.
- Monitor and report Suppliers' Service Level Performance to the Procurement department.
- Ensure that all Internal Control Standards are implemented and the related procedures are effectively respected through-out the purchasing activities.
- Propose supply agreement and blanket orders to the business wherever the opportunity arises or based on frequency of purchases.
- Anticipate and provide timely responses to work requirements
- Proactively manage orders of goods and services to support reliability and achieving target.
- Champion procurement process improvement initiatives and projects.
- Provide first level support to the all requesters/end users.
- Monitor and propose to central buying, strategic and fast moving commodities to enhance setting of contractual agreement
- Ensure working capital optimization.
- Manage all local purchases/ contract within agreed threshold in line with objective.
- Review requisition generation to control cost in ordering of materials and services.
- Provide monthly saving on all orders generated.
- Monitoring of contractor’s efficiency(No of order received versus executed)
- Ensure 100% compliance to POs generation to avert repetitive job.
- Weekly report of outstanding PR TO POs
- Monthly report of all PRs raised and POs generation.
- Ensure communication of environmental policy to vendors/Contractors.
Requirements
Critical Requirements:
- 5-7 years of experience in procurement or supply chain function.
- First level university degree or equivalent experience; may have advanced university degree.
- Procurement best practices
- Mastery of business process skill
- Project management and follow up skills
- Pro-activeness and transparency
- Negotiation skill.
- Human and business administration skills