Ongoing recruitment in a Mobile Telecommunications Company (IHS Towers), February 2017
IHS Towers is the largest independent mobile telecommunications
infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Founded
in 2001, IHS provides services across the full tower value chain -
collocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services.
Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire,
Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and
Etisalats tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in
Africa.
IHS Towers is recruiting to fill the positions below:
Job Title: Procurement Analyst
Location: Nigeria
Reports To: Senior Manager -Supply Chain
Job Description
- Procurement Analyst will be responsible for organizing,
evaluation and production of information for decision-making. This will
include validation of quality of information for complex decision
making.
Responsibilities
- The Procurement Analyst will provides procurement and analytical
expertise, including research, cost modelling and analytical support
services, to inform procurement and category management, decision-making
and strategy.
- Evaluate and refine Business Intelligence goals, business
objectives, decision support needs, data and performance requirements to
meet business objectives.
- Analyze 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. Organize 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 visualizations given data and
business requirement criteria. Recommend information delivery options
and methodology. Establish best practices and guidelines.
- Utilize 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 standardization.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
Competencies:
- 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
Job Title: Zone Field Coordinator
Location: Nigeria
Reports to:IHS Field Coordinator
Summary
- To support Logistics team with effective and efficient Diesel refuelling and reporting on time to IHS Field Coordinator
Responsibilities
- Follow up the distribution per tanker , based on allocation per
Supplier, with the various IHS Depot Representative in the 5 depots
and with the various Logistic teams and Regional Technical Officers
(RTO ) in his Zone
- Ensure that delivery of diesel to the allocated sites are on time and as per schedule by contacting the suppliers
- Coordinate with Logistics and RTO on each truck delivered
- Inform the Logistics in the regions and the RTO on tanker delivered immediately.
- Follow up with RTO & logistic teams to get all the waybill on time and before the 20th of each month
- Reconcile all the delivery waybill signed by the RTO and IHS
Logistics and compare it to the quantities allocated per supplier in
his Zone and sign the waybill
- Generate daily report to Regional field coordinator
Qualifications & Experience
- First Degree from a Recognized Institution in Sciences or Business management.
- With 2-3 years’ experience in project management, logistics and procurement management
Competencies
- Have technical background
- Computer appreciation: MS Word, Excel.
- General administration skills
- Good organization and coordination skills
- Good negotiation skills
- Directing and proactive
- Links with Fuel stations
- Knowledge about safety and environmental standard
Job Title: Senior Contracts Specialist
Location: Nigeria
Reports to: Snr Manager -Supply Chain
Summary
- The Senior Contracts Specialist will be responsible for complex
contract drafting, compliance, risk management, audit, policy,
negotiation support and supplier qualification oversight activities.
Responsibilities
- The Senior Contracts Specialist will work 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.
- 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
Competencies
- Law Degree or equivalent
- 10 years’ experience working with contracts and subcontracts.
Experience of audit and the development of policies and procedures is
desirable.
- 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.
- Excellent communication skills in oral and written formats
- Experience in contract structure, interpretation and negotiation.
Job Title: Senior Manager - Supply Chain Functional Excellence
Location: Lagos
Summary
- The Senior Manager for our Supply Chain Functional Excellence
department would be 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
Competencies:
- 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.
- Advanced problem solving and continuous improvement techniques
Job Title: Senior Supplier Program Management Specialist
Reports To: Senior Manager -Supply Chain
Location: Nigeria
Summary
- Work closely with all functional teams to ensure successful integration, support contract execution and management initiatives.
Responsibilities
- The Supplier Program Management Specialist (SPM) would be responsible for management and oversight of major supplier activities.
- 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.
- 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.
Competencies and Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
- Initiates assignments and 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.
- Excellent communication skills in oral and written formats
- Experience in contract structure, interpretation and negotiation.
Job Title: Head of Procurement - Technical
Location: Nigeria
Reports To: Head of Supply Chain - Nigeria
Summary
- Senior leadership and strategy ownership for Telecomm passive
infrastructure and Integrated Site Maintenance Services; direct
procurement of infrastructure components such as tower structures ,
Diesel Power Generator modules; Site Build civil construction and Tower
installation services; and, Site Acquisition in support of Technical
Field development Projects/Operations.
Responsibilities
- The Head of Procurement - Technical will lead a Procurement team
that will design, develop and oversee implementation of the
company-wide strategy for: Technical Procurement
- Develop strategies in support of key projects and initiatives tailored to the category
- Develop contracting strategies
- 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,
- 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
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.
Competencies:
- Advanced Problem Solving and numerate analytical skills.
- Excellent literacy skills.
- Strong IT skills (MS Office, ERP, Data Analysis).
- 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.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's and Cover Letters to:
[email protected] indicating in the subject bar the name of the role