Senior Procurement Manager at Tamrose Ventures Limited
Tamrose Ventures Limited is a foremost Marine Logistics Services provider, purposefully set up to redefine indigenous services standards, with the aim of becoming the dominant player in the Nigerian Oil and gas industry. Our aggressive increase in our fleet size and massive company expansion has informed the need to add to our performance driven and exceptionally brilliant human capital base.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Procurement Manager
Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Full Time
Key Responsibilities
Procurement Strategy:
- Develop a Procurement Strategy aimed at ensuring long-term, sustainable timely delivery of quality goods / services by best-in-class vendors at optimal prices.
- Ensure alignment of Procurement strategy with overall business objective
- Develop best fit procurement processes for the business
Vendor Selection and Contract Management:
- Define criteria for vendor selection along product/service lines and aligned with Procurement Strategy
- Manage the end-to-end selection process for vendors in different categories.
- Negotiate long term SLA with key vendors (Engines, Shipyards, Chandlers, Lube and fuel vendors, OEMs, etc)
- Develop a sourcing strategy that guarantees best value for all purchases
- Identify cost drivers for product/service categories and leverage this to achieve cost savings.
- Proactive Cost Management - achieve cost control, cost reduction, and cost containment targets, through a strong Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) orientation and process management.
- Use data analysis to optimize procurement spends by identifying abnormal procurement spends and flagging appropriately.
- Develop a vendor evaluation and feedback process to ensure that vendors continue to meet Tamrose standards.
- Monitor SLAs and Contract terms for all suppliers and service providers.
- Procurement and Sourcing
- Develop best practice procurement processes that ensure speedy delivery of goods/service to support business operations.
- Liaise with User Departments to standardise requisition specifications and service needs.
Budge and cost management:
- Analyse procurement trends to make accurate forecast of procurement needs for the business.
- Actively participate in budget planning and monitoring, to ensure cost optimization across all business operations.
- Identify opportunities to drive down cost and improve value.
Team Development:
- Provide strategic leadership to the Supply Chain department
- Develop and mentor team members for career development
- Manage working relationship between the Supply Chain department and other departments
Requirements
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) or acceptable equivalent.
- 15 years’ experience with at least 5 years spent as a Senior Procurement professional Procurement
- Must have had a wide scope of Procurement experience, covering direct and indirect buying.
- Ability to demonstrate negotiating and influencing skills.
- Oil and Gas/marine services experience is an added advantage for this role.
- International work exposure is an added advantage for this role.
- Experience in setting up a corporate procurement function and designing procurement strategies.
- Ability to provide leadership on technical, people and organisational issues.
Other Job Requirements:
Our ideal candidates must meet the following criteria:
- Strong Technical background
- Good understanding of spares and
- Must have an eye for detail to ensure that correct information is noted and recorded.
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Strong interpersonal skills – Needs to work and interact with everyone across all levels.
- Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel).
- Work independently and possess excellent decision- making skills.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail