Ongoing recruitment in a Mobile Telecommunications Infrastructure Provider Company
Peoplesource Consulting - Our client is the largest independent mobile
telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the
Middle East. It provides services across the full tower value chain -
colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Procurement Analyst
Ref No: PIPA 01
Location: Nigeria
Department: Supply Chain Management
Reports to: Senior Manager -Supply Chain Functional Excellence
Job Objective
- We are currently looking to help our client fill the role of Procurement Analyst.
- The incumbent will provide procurement and analytical
expertise, including research, cost modelling and analytical support
services, to inform procurement and category management, decision-making
and strategy.
Job Purpose
- Procurement Analyst will be responsible for organising,
evaluation and production of information for decision-making. This will
include validation of quality of information for complex decision
making.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
Key Accountabilities:
- Evaluate and refine Business Intelligence goals, business
objectives, decision support needs, data and performance requirements to
meet business objectives.
- Analyse data elements and business rules applicable to the
business requirements and offer options for moderately complex business
intelligence information model solutions that satisfy the customer
needs.
- Prepare data for Business Intelligence solutions including
identification of missing information, quality and lack of quality to
the data owners. Perform moderate to complex transformation of metadata
for use. Organise data for analysis appropriate for structured data.
- Participate in assessment of current technology, evaluate use of
technology and utilize standard methodologies. Choose best-fit
business intelligence technology, methodology and visualisations given
data and business requirement criteria. Recommend information delivery
options and methodology. Establish best practices and guidelines.
- Utilise programming and database queries to implement scalable
and efficient query models. Iteratively execute Business Intelligence
models and development. Perform analysis to identify and understand an
issue or event. Investigation of evident issues through drill-down
exploration and descriptive statistics. Improve productivity through
automation and standardisation.
- Evaluate and validate quality of performance on completeness of
Business Intelligence models and solutions. Troubleshoot and resolve
quality and performance issues. Evaluate, validate and refine moderate
to complex business intelligence solutions to meet business objectives.
Other responsibilities include:
- Development of business cases Identification of profit enhancing
opportunities, product segmentation, customer segmentation,
maintenance and creation of value-based and statistical price models
- Development of new metrics to identify trends, tracking and monitoring of pricing performance
- Work closely with all functions of the business to provide
insights and discover opportunities within various spend and business
segments
- Skills/Competence Requirement
- Must be able to demonstrate attention to detail, able to work
independently or as member of a team; must be organised and meet
deadlines. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Works well
with people across the organisation to gather information, make
decisions/recommendations, and drive improvements
Job Attributes
Qualifications & Experience:
- Technical bachelor's degree and typically 7 or more years'
related work experience or a Master's degree or an equivalent
combination of education and experience. This position requires:
Business Intelligence experience:
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office is required. Experience
with any of the following: SAP, Tableau, Vendavo, Teradata, SQL Server,
SAS, R, AX 7 and Pricing Optimization methodologies are desirable.
Note: Experience could include academic exposure.
Experience Level:
Key Relationships:
- Senior Manager -Supply Chain Functional Excellence
Job Title: Senior Supplier Program Management Specialist
Ref No: PISSPMS 01
Location: Nigeria
Department: Supply Chain Management
Reports to: Senior Manager -Supply Chain Functional Excellence
Job Objective
- We are currently looking to help our client fill the role of Senior Supplier Program Management Specialist.
- The incumbent would be responsible for management and oversight of major supplier activities.
- The successful candidate will work closely with all functional
teams to ensure successful integration , support contract execution
and management initiatives.
Job Purpose
- Working closely with the technical project teams, procurement,
operations and other supporting functions to ensure successful
integration and support of proposal efforts, contract execution and
supplier management initiatives.
Key Accountabilities
- Working closely with other functions in an integrated team
environment to develop procurement specifications and statements of work
for a variety of complex goods and services.
- Performs stakeholder needs analysis, technical measure definition, and requirements analysis, allocation and definition.
- Uses structured requirements processes to ensure requirements are clear, unambiguous verifiable and affordable.
- Develops and implements processes for other business units and functions when appropriate.
- Performs cost vs. requirements trade studies, cost driver
analysis, and analysis of supplier cost proposals using parametric cost
modelling techniques.
- Assists with analyses to evaluates customer/operational needs to define technical performance requirements.
- Supporting leadership related to Supplier Management strategy
and resolves issues. Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies
that support successful execution of the procurement packages.
- Conducts oversight and management of strategies, performance and development of large-scale products and services.
- Manages technical, business, product delivery, quality and
in-service aspects of supplier/subcontractor relationships and
performance.
- Establishes operating plan to monitor performance to plan.
- Identifies and manages all aspects of supplier statement of
work, contractual commitments and performance to support company
procurement strategies and contractual compliance and establishes
operating plan.
- Provides technical and business guidance to critical suppliers and projects.
- Leads strategic supply chain activities to manage work with suppliers and projects.
- Manages all aspects of supplier and stakeholder relationships and performance throughout all contract phases.
- Leads supplier assessments and the development of recovery plans, corrective and preventative actions.
- Supports the development of company or business unit procurement
strategies. Provides oversight, guidance and verification of work
movement projects.
- Communicates supplier and organization performance plan risks, issues and opportunities to stakeholders.
- Manages work movement plans.
Skills/Competence Requirement:
- Applies advanced job principles, theories, and concepts.
Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts as well as
advanced job practices,techniques, and standards. Recognised as a job
expert with in the company.
Qualifications
- Technical bachelor's degree and typically 14 or more years'
related work experience or a Master's degree with typically 12 or more
years' or a PhD degree with typically 9 or more years' related work
experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Knowledge:
- Applies advanced job principles, theories, and concepts.
- Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts as well as advanced job practices, techniques, and standards.
- Recognized as a job expert within the company.
Problem Solving:
- Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions, which are highly innovative and ingenious.
Discretion:
- Initiates assignments, determines, and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.
- Work is checked through consultation and agreement with others rather than formal review by a superior.
Impact:
- Develops advanced technical ideas and guides their development into final product.
- Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in
failure to achieve critical organizational objectives and affect the
organization's technological capability and image.
Liaison:
- Serves as organization spokesperson on advanced projects and programs.
- Acts as advisor to management and customers on supply chain risk elements.
Experience Level:
Job Title: Senior Manager -Supply Chain Functional Excellence
Ref No:
PISCF 01
Location: Nigeria
Department: Supply Chain Management
Report to: Head of Supply Chain - Nigeria
Job Objective
- The incumbent's department is responsible for a team of subject
matter experts delivering Business Intelligence, Analysis, Contract
Risk, Compliance & Audit, Supplier Programme Managers, Supplier
Requirements Engineering, Supplier Quality and Supply Chain Risk
Job Purpose
- Working closely with project teams, procurement, operations,
supply chain and other supporting functions to ensure that supply chain
functional performance is delivering best practice
Responsibilities
- Leadership of a group of experts deployed to develop procurement
contract structures for a variety of complex goods and services.
- Owns the development, training and implementation of policies, procedures and processes for the supply chain function.
- Provide contract risk and compliance oversight to the procurement department.
- Leadership oversight of Supplier Management strategy
development. Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies that
support successful execution of the projects.
- Leadership oversight and management of procurement process, subcontract and supply chain audits as required.
- Leadership of a group of experts to support to complex
subcontract negotiations and produce playbooks/training materials for
procurement teams.
- Establishes operating plan for procurement risk and compliance assessment activities and performs to plan.
- Leadership interface between procurement and legal department on subcontract strategies and subcontract risk management.
- Leadership of expert support to assessments and the development
of recovery plans, corrective and preventative actions related to
subcontract claims and disputes.
- Reporting of functional level commercial risks and implications to project managers, regional managers, and senior executives
- Lead the evaluate and refinement of Business Intelligence goals,
business objectives, decision support needs, data and performance
requirements to meet business objectives
- Leadership and influence with other functions in an integrated
team environment to drive the need to develop procurement specifications
and statements of work for a variety of complex goods and services
Qualifications & Experience
- Law Degree or equivalent and 10 years’ experience working with contracts and subcontracts.
- Experience of audit and the development of policies and procedures is desirable.
Problem Solving:
- Works on unusually complex problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.
Discretion:
- Initiates assignments, determines, and pursues courses of action
necessary to obtain desired results. Work is checked through
consultation and agreement with others rather than formal review by a
superior.
Impact:
- Develops advanced processes and guides their development into
final product. Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically
result in failure to achieve critical organizational objectives and
affect the organization's risk exposure and image.
Skills:
- Must be able to apply advanced job principles, theories, and
concepts, contribute to the development of new principles and concepts
as well as advanced job practices, techniques, and standards.
- Recognised as a job expert within the company.
Job Title: Head of Procurement - Technical
Ref. No.: PIHPT 01
Location: Nigeria
Department: Supply Chain Management
Reports to: Head of Supply Chain - Nigeria
Job Purpose
- The Head of Procurement - Technical is expected to deliver
effective procurement solutions across the business in line with the
group’s business targets and objectives; deliver defined savings
targets; deliver defined value adding targets and measures; actively
manage supply risk and performance; develop supply chain capability to
meet future business needs; and, ultimately, improve performance,
improve the organisation’s competitive advantage, and reduce costs and
business risk significantly.
- He/she is expected to deliver an innovative and value for money
procurement service by embedding category strategies for the particular
area of responsibility by focusing on the needs of internal and
external stakeholders.
- The incumbent will oversee the management of procurement specialists and managers.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
Category Management:
- Develop integrated strategies to ensure the organisation
maximises the benefit of its supplier relationships and reduces total
cost of ownership. A Category Profile and Strategy shall be developed
and updated that describes the market environment, key suppliers, key
contracts, risks, issues and opportunities, current spend and forecast
demand within the category:
To provide category management, the candidate will facilitate a cross functional team to:
- Develop strategies in support of key projects and initiatives tailored to the category
- Develop contracting strategies
- Develop negotiation strategies for strategic sourcing events
- Develop plans to manage capacity and capability
- Develop demand profile and identify niche support
- Assess current and potential supply base
- Identify risk and support mitigation plans
- Ensure key performance indicators are in place to manage performance across BUs
- Communicate strategy, performance, risk and opportunities to stakeholders
- Communicate key presentations to senior leadership (directors)
- Execute category and contracting strategies, monitor and manage progress to plan
- Facilitate agreement with business partners and other stakeholders
Specifically:
- Develop and maintain effective relationships with key internal
stakeholders (including Executive and Group Directors) to increase
awareness of Procurement and communicate, implement and monitor
compliance by internal stakeholders with corporate Procurement policies
and collaborate to define and articulate their strategic sourcing needs
and secure their engagement and support to agreed implementation
strategies.
- Support the department’s leadership team on ‘Demand Management’
where necessary to challenge and change the organisation’s Procurement
policy and buying behaviour and to provide support in resolving
conflicts and removing any barriers to delivering optimum benefits via
the Category Management process. In this dimension, assist Category
Leads on large scale, complex Procurement projects where influence and
experience can make a significant contribution to final sourcing
outcomes.
- Identify and define opportunities for synergies, revenue growth
and lead Spend Analysis in order to identify and develop savings
opportunity assessment, including leading external benchmarking to
support this assessment, and input supply market intelligence into the
budget setting process and agree any saving targets to be included in
the plan.
- Provide specialist advice, guidance and service in
identification, assessment and management of potential risks associated
with differing sourcing strategies and lead cross functional teams to
develop Category strategies.
- Ensure make -vs- buy opportunities are considered as part of the
development of applicable Category strategies in order to reduce
costs, drive operational efficiencies and/or improve customer service
and, where appropriate, lead on the production of the corresponding
business case.
- Achieve cost savings objectives through creative Procurement
strategies, vendor selection and review and development of favourable
contract agreements.
- Lead the end to end tender process for high value/risk contracts
including leading pre and post-award negotiations on strategically
significant contracts in close collaboration with Legal and other
relevant supporting departments.
- Define and manage key supplier relationships and be accountable
for Supplier Relationship Management within the Category to deliver
breakthrough performance in cost, service and quality,
- Continuously support centralised IM expertise to identify and
collate key, comprehensive management information based on in-depth
analysis and produce regular reports to reflect the performance of the
Category team on spend management, savings tracking, project tracking,
performance measurement and monitoring of key suppliers and contractors
and key risk management.
- Keep abreast of developments in key supply markets and foster,
establish and manage relationships with senior management of key and
strategic suppliers to improve supplier performance.
- Continuously revalidate current processes and systems and drive
refinements through structured change management efforts to drive
adoption of improved systems and processes, standard tools, templates,
legal documents and supplier selection methodology and criteria.
- Oversee and manage the Category team including monitoring that
workload and work plans are effectively resourced and carried out in
accordance with the Category Management Framework and Procurement
policies and procedures.
- Assist in defining organisational design and oversee development of roles and responsibilities and recruitment.
- Define and develop a continuous improvement culture and
monitor/coach team members by effectively managing development and
performance.
Skills/Competence Requirement
Senior team and Category Management experience: mandatory. To include:
- Advanced Problem Solving and numerate analytical skills.
- Excellent literacy skills.
- Strong IT skills (MS Office, ERP, Data Analysis).
Job Attributes
Qualifications & Experience:
- First Degree, Certified Purchaser (CIPS) preferred and Master’s Degree will be advantageous.
- Bachelor's degree and typically 15 or more years' related work
experience or a Master's degree with typically 12 or more years' related
work experience or an equivalent combination of education and
experience.
- Strong influencing skills at senior levels to influence acceptance of new ways of working and building strategic awareness.
- Stakeholder relationships: building trust and fostering
collaboration; excellent team management and interpersonal people skills
are essential.
- Communicating effectively: strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strategic thinking complimented by excellent organisational and Project Management skills.
- Ability to negotiate commercial and contractual terms at the highest levels with suppliers.
Job Dimensions
Key Relationships:
- Head of Supply Chain Nigeria
- Procurement Specialists and Managers
Job Title: Senior Contract Specialist
Job ID: PISCS 01
Location: Nigeria
Department: Supply Chain Management
Reports to: Senior Manager -Supply Chain Functional Excellence
Job Purpose
- The incumbent is expected to effectively support all functions
to ensure successful integration and support of proposal efforts,
contract execution and supplier management initiatives.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
Key accountabilities:
- Working closely with other functions in an integrated team
environment to develop procurement contract structures for a variety of
complex goods and services.
- Develops and implements policies, procedures and processes for the supply chain function.
- Provide contract risk and compliance oversight to the procurement department.
- Supporting leadership related to supplier management strategy
and resolves issues. Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies
that support successful execution of the procurement packages.
- Conducts oversight and management of procurement process, subcontract and supply chain audits as required.
- Provide support to complex subcontract negotiations and produce playbooks/training materials for procurement teams.
- Establishes operating plan for procurement risk and compliance assessment activities.
- Lead interface between procurement and legal department on subcontract strategies and subcontract risk management.
- Provides expert support to assessments and the development of
recovery plans, corrective and preventative actions related to
subcontract claims and disputes.
- Supports the development of company or business unit procurement
strategies. Provides oversight and guidance for category strategies.
- Assist project teams in their review of tender and bid
documentation, and provide recommendations on contract terms and
conditions
- Review bid clarifications/qualifications and related business opportunity documentation drafted by project teams
- Identify and discuss contracting and commercial risks and
implications with project managers, regional managers, and senior
executives
- Recommend alternative or additional bid or contract wording to
mitigate, contain and/or transfer risk exposures and address
contingencies
- Provide guidance and support to procurement in negotiations leading to the finalization of sub-contracts
- Ensure that negotiation, execution and administration of all
contracts are compliant with the organisation’s policies and procedures.
- Engage with and provide guidance to procurement teams involved
in the formation and administration of subcontracts and purchasing
processes
- Develop forms and templates to support business initiatives,
while identifying and addressing risk exposure to existing documents
- Draft and review subcontracts and associated documents, and
ensure flow down of Prime Contract terms in all subcontract and
purchasing commitments
- Handle day-to-day questions regarding contracts and
subcontracts, while identifying and proposing solutions to address
associated issues and risks
- Provide training and coaching to procurement teams engaged in
the implementation of and the formation and administration of
subcontracts
- Report to the Legal team on contracting and risk issues where
significant legal implications arise from the contracting process, and
provide support as required
Skills/Competence Requirement
- Must be able to apply advanced job principles, theories, and
concepts, contribute to the development of new principles and concepts
as well as advanced job practices, techniques, and standards.
- Recognised as a job expert within the company.
Job Attributes
Qualifications & Experience:
- Law Degree or equivalent and 10 years’ experience working with
contracts and subcontracts. Experience of audit and the development of
policies and procedures is desirable.
Problem Solving:
- Works on unusually complex problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.
Discretion:
- Initiates assignments, determines, and pursues courses of action
necessary to obtain desired results. Work is checked through
consultation and agreement with others rather than formal review by a
superior.
Impact:
- Develops advanced processes and guides their development into
final product. Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically
result in failure to achieve critical organizational objectives and
affect the organization's risk exposure and image.
Experience Level:
Job Dimensions
Key Relationships:
- Acts as advisor to management and customers on subcontract risk elements.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send in their CV's and application letter to:
[email protected] quoting the job title and reference above as subject.
Application Deadline 26th January, 2017.