Procurement Manager at Compugeen Africa

Compugeen Africa is  a Fintech company with subsidiary companies involved in numerous sectors including Consultation, Travels and Tours, Hospitality and Real Estate. As part of our expansion plans, we are interested in engaging highly motivated individual/ individuals to join our team in our various business ventures.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Procurement Manager

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Strategic Objectives

Job Purpose

• To provide value-driven procurement support to support the achievement of business cost and value propositions
• To work with stakeholders in building and managing supplier relationships.
• Ensure a clear understanding of supplier portfolio, capabilities, and reliability to support operations.
• To work closely with other supply chain functions in establishing continuous supplier quality improvement.

Key Accountabilities

• Contribute and manage the standard costing process and cost projection for assigned portfolios; providing all standard cost data to the Finance function as required for the budgeting process.
• Develop and Execute sourcing strategies for the assigned portfolios to deliver business benefits or internal customers aligned to Cost, Innovation, quality, and service.
• Commercial negotiation to deliver minimum variance to Raw Material budget/standard cost.
• Identify sustainable and long-term savings opportunities through the strategy creation process, identifying and exploring all potential value levers.
• Lead, develop and manage the Raw Material supply base toward building effective strategic relationships with key suppliers
• Lead and manage the achievement of Sustainability G4B policies (Palm Promise, REACH, Localisation, etc) as applicable in the assigned portfolio.
• Engaging with and understanding the business requirements of internal customers and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (or HND) in Business, Finance, Materials Management, or related fields. MBA/ CIPS will be an added advantage.
• 5 - 8 years of experience cognate experience
• excellent negotiation skills
• Strong organization skills
• Written and verbal communication skills.

Technical / Professional Experience:

• Able to communicate in English, speaking, reading, and writing.
• IT skills, MS Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
• Diagnosis skills and Problem-solving techniques/tools
• Knowledge in Project Management
• Previous experience in procurement function preferred.

Application Closing Date
12th December, 2022.