Procurement Officer at HR-EX Consulting

HR-EX Consulting partners with small businesses looking for affordable HR professional advisory and services. In practice, we operate as an outsourced HR department and provide professional HR services for small businesses for a fraction of the cost of hiring a full-time staff.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Procurement Officer

Location: Oyo

Job Description

• Draw strategic plan to identify and connect with key profitable pharmaceutical manufacturers and suppliers to initiate business and organization partnerships.
• Ensures company obtains quality products for competitive prices in a timely fashion by actively working to develop strategy to identify and remove operation bottleneck.
• Play an integral role in ensuring a company sticks to budgets and operates profitably. Approve the ordering of necessary goods and services on Just in Time basis and finalize purchase details of orders and deliveries
• Monitor business trends and product availability to pay the best price for company goods and services without sacrificing quality or delivery times
• Nurtures relationships with suppliers to negotiate the best prices for company and sustainably entrenching stake and profitability
• Identifies and researches potential new suppliers within and outside Nigeria to source for products and strike new deals that guarantees company’s growth.
• Researches new products and services and advise on the next step of action to meet company's goals and to ensure business lead with competition to business advantage
• Carry out periodic assessment of product needs; tracking and reporting key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness while collaborating with key persons to ensure clarity of the specifications and expectations of the company
• Work with and oversee a team of FC manager, logistics, data entry, and retail outlet managers to ensure a comprehensive procurement operation for quick and free workflow to expectations
• Reports to the FC Manager and shall participate in a strong company culture of periodic management planning/strategy meeting; with daily, weekly and monthly reporting practice to ensure high productivity and quality delivery on task.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Business Administration, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Economics, Applied Science, or in related field.
• Experience: 4+ years of cognate experience
• Proven working experience as a Procurement Manager or Procurement Officer in the pharmaceutical industry with strong project management, and enterprise resource planning skills.
• Must have deep contact with pharmaceutical manufacturers and importers
• Good knowledge of supplier or third-party management software; Apt with working with numbers with strong experience in collecting and analyzing data
• Must demonstrate specialized industry knowledge in inventory and supply chain management
• Superior negotiation, logistic operations and financial analysis skills
• Must be a people person with networking and excellent communication skills

Application Closing Date
25th June, 2021.