Head of Procurement Recruitment – UniCem Nigeria

In Nigeria, the name, UniCem stands for advanced technology, quality product and the leading supplier of cement in the South-South and South-East regions. As the second largest cement plant in Nigeria, our core activities are the manufacture and sale of Ordinary Portland Cement.

UniCem has its head office based in Calabar and all cement manufacturing operations have been consolidated at the 2.5million tons per annum Mfamosing plant, north-east of Calabar.

Our mission statement indicates that we strive to be one of the most socially responsible cement companies in Nigeria. In achieving this we operate on the basis of best practices in accordance with shareholder, lender and local Nigerian legal and regulatory requirements so far as corporate governance, good corporate citizenship and sustainable practices.

Job Title: Head of Procurement

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.

LONG TERM GOALS:

  • Reduce landed cost of goods in clear and measurable ways.
  • Improve on procurement time-cycle and complete performance of purchasing efforts in optimally measurable ways.
  • Identify and create optimal balance between local and foreign purchasing that result in significant cost reduction for the company.
  • Create culture of improvement in the procurement process chain that our User Departments identify as a reason for centralizing the procurement process.

Desired Skills & Experience

Professional and/or technical competencies:

  • Good first degree in related discipline. A higher or Professional qualification in Supply Chain Management or Purchasing / Procurement, offers distinctive advantage.
  • Membership of relevant professional bodies
  • Hands on expertise in planning and managing activities flawlessly
  • Minimum 10 years in procurement and/or operation function
  • Minimum 5 years post graduate work experience in senior sourcing with exposure to supply chain management, complex strategic sourcing and optimal procurement processes
  • Proven performance in managing and developing a Procurement/sourcing team, with requisite drive and energy to ensure a challenging benefits and capability building agenda is successfully delivered
  • Excellent understanding of Procurement and import activities.
  • Strong commercial acumen with excellent communication skills.
  • Good negotiation and relationship management skills.
  • Excellent internal customer relationship management orientation.

Behavioural and/or managerial competencies:

  • Strategic thinker with strong analytical, financial analysis, planning and organizing capability
  • Leadership ability to build relationships and command respect across multiple functions
  • Strong written and oral communication skills
  • Strong focus on cost management and minimization and proven ability to generate results
  • Strong subject-matter expertise in Supply Chain Management, company law, contract law, sourcing and procurement standards
  • Strong negotiation skills
  • Good attention to detail
  • Good presentation skills
  • Good time management skills
  • Must be of high integrity.

 

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