Procurement Manager at Book a Recruiter

Book a Recruiter - Our client; a sales and procurement firm that is engaged in providing engineering solutions in all manufacturing sectors. They specialize in the supply of power transmission products, bearings, conveyor spares, industrial hoses, tools, maintenance (predictive and preventive), lubrication, seals, pumps, valves, gaskets, electric motors, gears drives, standard sand, sealing adhesives, fasteners, vulcanizing components, welding solutions, automation parts, etc.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Procurement Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Carry out competitive sourcing using Rfq on e-sourcing platforms to reduce procurement cycle time, and establish transparency and traceability.
• Source and onboard suppliers to achieve business measures: - Identifying intermediary suppliers and eliminating 80% of intermediary suppliers.
• Responsible for developing and tracking standard operating procedures in procurement activities.
• Source, evaluate, and select vendors based on the evaluation of bids tendered.
• Constantly tracking and ranking all suppliers on pricing, quality, and speed of response to help guide supplier choice.
• Create purchase requisitions and purchase orders.
• Facilitate the creation and management of supplier contracts.
• Access the quality of service performance of the suppliers in accordance with the company’s policies and profitability goals.
• Build and manage vendor/ supplier management database and SLA adherence tracker.
• Agree and maintain SLAs with the sales team for turn-around time for responding to requests.
• Develop and implement proper purchasing policies, controls, SOPs, and Processes for the department.
• Ensure that all requests are attended to within 48 hours.
• Ensure tracking of all requests via a CRM system.
• Responsible for tracking and ensuring that the company wins at least 90% of quotations that they send to clients.
• Manage, coach, train, and mentor team members on improved and new procedures and skills.
• Develop customer satisfaction goals and coordinate with the team to meet daily goals.
• Sourcing suppliers and maintaining long-lasting relationships with them as well as existing suppliers.
• Obtaining quotes from different suppliers.
• Generating quote comparisons and contributing to internal supplier selection based on the quotes.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Administration or any related field.
• Minimum of 5 years work experience.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Understand the business of procurement (Sourcing).
• Good understanding of margins when pricing.
• Must have very good analytical skills (spreadsheet ninja).
• Must have very good people management and issue resolution skills.
• Proven experience in Customer service.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word.

Application Closing Date
1st December, 2023.