Sourcing Manager, Chemicals at Tradevu Lagos

Tradevu Lagos - Our clients connects suppliers, buyers, vendors, and banks on a single digital platform. With Tradevu, businesses can orchestrate each node of their supply chain seamlessly.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Sourcing Manager, Chemicals

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Description

• The procurement manager is responsible for strategic purchasing of industrial chemicals, and negotiating price with suppliers, assigning purchase orders to selected suppliers, and managing purchase orders from start to finish for the Tradevu Commerce business unit and its customers.
• The procurement manager will drive the efficient and cost-effective flow of materials to and from client sites through the supervision of the logistics team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain KPIs for procurement operations in accordance with best industry practices. Examples include: PR-to PO ageing reports, vendor scorecards, lead-time maintenance, on-time delivery metrics, freight cost measures, PPV analysis and purchased inventory targets.
• Manage the supplier agreement compliance, issues related to damage and short supply
• To work proactively to improve the sourcing process leading the integration between different roles involved in it (purchasing, quality, logistics, suppliers, warehouse, procurement)
• To define and monitor metrics to identify anomalies, recurring issues and trends
• To track the supplier's performance
• To apply the outcomes of the Analytics team analysis and ask to them, when necessary, new ones
• Resolving payment issues to suppliers
• Ensure purchasing data quality compliance
• Growing to become a subject matter expert of the materials responsible for and countries that the materials are sourced from, and proactively put in place processes/plans for the smooth supply to the site.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.

Application Closing Date
30th January, 2025.