Purchasing Director at Oracle Nigeria

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We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Purchasing Director - Fin

Job ID: IRC2379534
Location: Lagos

Department Description

• The Global Procurement organization delivers sourcing, supplier management, and contract negotiation services to optimize spend and mitigate risk for Oracle.
• The department delivers these services globally in all countries where Oracle conducts business.

Brief Description

• Responsible for overseeing activities related to the procurement of materials, parts, components, and equipment.
• Manages a professional staff.

Detailed Description

• Develops and implements policies and procedures for the operation of procurement activities.
• May review and approve purchases up to a specified dollar amount.
• May negotiate major contracts involving large dollar amounts. Interacts with suppliers to resolve issues and maintain the Oracle/Supplier relationship.
• May analyze and summarize global commodity spending trends to identify cost saving opportunities.
• Monitors activities to ensure Oracle's Global Purchasing/Finance policy objectives are met.
• May review standard and nonstandard contracts.
• Identify, propose and initiate implementation of process efficiencies/improvements.

Job Requirements

• Assists in the development of short, medium, and long term plans to achieve strategic objectives.
• Regularly interacts across functional areas with senior management or executives to ensure unit objectives are met.
• Ability to influence thinking or gain acceptance of others in sensitive situations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of commodities and assigned Local Countries.
• Knowledge of Internet Procurement, Purchasing Core Applications, Purchasing Legal Guidelines, Corporate Financial Policies, and Monaco Documents. Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com

Additional Details:
Our ideal candidate must have:

• 10+ years of relevant work experience and a BS/BA degree or equivalent.
• 6+ years of management experience including hiring and managing a professional staff, setting objectives, measuring and improving performance, establishing best practices, developing and enforcing policy, and making key decisions.
• Procurement experience including sourcing, cost/price analysis,contracting, and supplier management .
• Strong leadership skills including ability to lead in a global organization.

Application Deadline
25th November, 2013.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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