Procurement Officer
- Post Date:February 8, 2023
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- Career Level OfficerQualification DiplomaExperience 1-3 Years
- Industry Business
Job Description
The following vacancy has arisen within Group Finance and applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced persons to fill the vacancy of Procurement Officer.
Job Specification
Reporting to the Procurement Supervisor, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following:
- Purchasing goods, materials, components, or services in line with specified cost, quality, and delivery targets.
- Tracking deliveries to reduce the risk of late on none delivery of goods and services
- Ensuring all procurement processes comply with company polices
- Ensuring purchases are done from suppliers who have dealership certificates in respective areas
- Managing supply chain to ensure smooth flow of all procurement activities
- Monitoring delivery times to ensure uninterrupted supply
- Conducting research for new components and suppliers
- Compiling data relating to supplier performance to enable evaluation
- Building, maintaining and managing supplier relationships and keep up good communications
- Ensuring compliance to company guidelines, and purchasing policies and during supplier negotiations and contracts award process.
- Negotiating contracts, improving prices and terms of business with suppliers and reviewing opportunities to make business savings utilizing negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods.
Qualifications & Experience:
The ideal candidate must possess the following:
- Diploma in Procurement, Supply Chain or CIPS.
- At least 1 year’ experience in a similar position
- Good knowledge of purchasing, negotiation, commercial understanding, and cost breakdown
- Experience of working closely with suppliers.
- Able to add value, reduce costs and input to business improvements.
Candidates meeting the above criteria should forward their Curriculum Vitaes (CVs), copies of certificates and application letters to Group Human Resources via the following email address: [email protected]
Applications should be sent by not later than 10 February 2023
First Mutual Holdings Limited Group does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, age, disability or marital status. The Group encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled and all other qualified applicants.