EdgeBuilt Career: Head of Procurement: UniCem Nigeria- Calabar, Nigeria (Nigeria)

Head of Procurement: UniCem Nigeria- Calabar, Nigeria (Nigeria).

Job Description

This position manages the overall procurement of goods and services for use by the Company. The role incumbent will have overall responsibility to:

- Create procurement & supply chain process that is a clear point of differentiation and advantage for the organization;

- Define and implement strategy that optimizes the resources of the organization and customers.

MAIN ACTIVITIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

Be a recognized value adding business partner and support growth through adherence to Procurement processes for ensuring sustainable quality, compliance, and quantity requirements. In addition, the job holder will be responsible for supply strategy that is sustainable and delivers on bottom line, as well as influence the organization's Service & Indirect Materials spends.
Create appropriate segregation of duty between the strategic procurement activity and operational procurement activities.
Ensure seamless competitive bidding processes are in place in order to ensure delivery of procurement activity at optimal prices and right quality.
Established preferred vendors list for sundry and indirect materials across the business unit and create a forward looking periodic review of such list.
Establish a contract and negotiation platform that allows for proactive rationalization of contractual spend in order to guarantee that we continue to buy contractual services at optimal rates.
Create a forthright supplier relationship management focused at forward looking partnering relationship and establish service level agreement across the spend categories.
Coach and develop the procurement team and established a workable career succession plan for the team.