Procurement Officer at EL-ALAN Construction Company (Nigeria) Limited

Responsibilities

• Invite, assess, and award/recommend supplier tenders, bids, quotations, and proposals
• Establish and negotiate contract terms and conditions, and maintain supplier relationships
• Prepare and maintain purchasing records, reports and price lists
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to determine procurement needs, quality, and delivery requirements
• Administer contract performance, including delivery, receipt, warranty, damages and insurance
• Effectively respond to vendor enquiries
• Comply to policies and procedures relevant to procurement activities
• Comply to applicable legislative and regulatory requirements
• Remember passwords, categories of items, specific customer names, and specialized and/or frequently used supplier names
• Keep track of goods / services ordered in order to respond to possible queries and search inventory databases to find quantities in stock, parts numbers, pigment numbers and product specifications
• Obtain information about goods and services by speaking with suppliers, making phone calls and reading brochures and trade publications
• Obtain information on about suppliers, regulations and standards
• Managing and controlling all the company’s external suppliers with particular emphasis on the purchase of Materials and finished parts for production.
• Ensure parts and materials are bought at the most competitive price and delivered on time.
• Identify new suppliers, agree terms and negotiate supply agreements where appropriate, including discount structures and volume rebates.
• Continually improve purchasing methods and drive down external spend.
• Ensure competent quality execution of all regular purchasing duties and administrative works.
• Prepare reports and summarize data including sales report and book value.
• Handling and monitoring of claims to factories and vendors for defectives, shortage, missing parts.
• Support relevant departments with quotations for purchasing of goods.
• Plan and manage inventory levels of materials or products.