Procurement Manager at Olam Agri

Olam Agri is a market-leading, differentiated food, feed, and fiber agri-business with a global origination footprint, processing capabilities, and deep understanding of market needs built over 33 years. With a strong presence in high-growth emerging markets and products across grains & oilseeds, animal feed & protein, rice, edible oils, specialty grains & seeds, cotton, wood products, rubber and commodity financial services.

Olam Agri is at the heart of global food and agri-trade flows with more than 40 million MT in volume traded annually. Focused on transforming food, feed and fiber for a more sustainable future, it aims at creating value for customers, enabling farming communities to prosper sustainably, and strive for a food-secure future.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Procurement Manager

Location: Nigeria
Sub-Function: Shipping

Job Description

• The Procurement Manager is responsible for developing and executing procurement strategies that ensure the timely, cost‑effective, and quality-focused acquisition of goods and services.
• This role oversees supplier management, contract negotiation, cost optimization, and compliance while supporting organizational objectives and operational continuity.

Key Deliverables
Manage all aspects of non-commodity procurement, from sourcing to delivery.
These include:

• Strategic Sourcing: Developing sourcing strategies, negotiating contracts, and identifying alternative sources to achieve productivity gains and cost savings
• Supplier Management: Evaluating and selecting suppliers based on quality, cost, and capability
• Directly handling big global cooperatives and suppliers
• Operational oversight: Overseeing contract implementation, resolving operational issues and managing budgets and forecasts.
• Pricing ideas – Adopt to market practices and ensure cost-effective buying.
• Compliance: Ensuring all procurement policies and regulations are followed.
• Able to plan and manage the required logistics and other supportive functions.
• Plan and expand the operating geographies and suppliers.
• Competition information – Arrivals, Pricing, offers etc.
• Cost: Manage the direct cost of operations within the allotted budget.
• Quality: Ensure optimum quality of engineering spares is procured.
• Sustainability: Anchor and lead the sustainability initiatives.

Strategic Effectiveness:

• You will be responsible for the optimal utilization of resources
• Support implementation of required infrastructure as per the business plan and derive maximum capacity efficiencies by eliminating controllable losses
• Be responsible for all Engineering Spares & Services.
• Ability to build teams - hiring, training, and developing team members.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders involving formal business reviews and ongoing continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Good communication skills.
• Team player, with team management skills.
• Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team-building skills.
• Ability to leverage modern procurement tools and ERP systems to automate sourcing, vendor management and procurement analytics for improved efficiency and transparency.
• Establish structured supplier performance reviews (KPIs, SLAs) to drive continuous improvement, strengthen long-tern partnerships and ensure alignment with organizational quality and cost objectives.
• Risk Mitigation (planning)- Ability to identify and mitigate supply chain risks by developing contingency sourcing strategies.
• ⁠Be able to drive value in cost benchmarking through structured negotiations, should-cost analysis and continuous monitoring of cost drivers to ensure optimal procurement decisions.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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