Purchasing Manager at Hamilton Lloyd and Associates

Our client, a global pharmaceutical company with presence in Nigeria

Job Summary

• The Purchasing Manager shall manage all purchasing demand of the affiliate and ensures compliance to local and global contracts.
• He is in charge of the affiliate based spends and is responsible for providing procurement support.

Job Responsibilities
Strategy:

• Ensures the good execution of any category sourcing plan in line with the local needs.
• Develops shares and contributes to the Global procurement strategy definition and supplier markets expertise with category management and regional procurement domain managers and customers.
• Anticipates and consolidates all business needs to carry out the negotiations at zone level.
• Adapts, elaborates and implements sourcing strategies according to category management orientations coming from global category managers and regional procurement domain managers.
• Accountable for achieving the objectives for the affiliate defined by global category managers.

Operational:

• Accountable for optimizing purchasing of goods and services within defined spend families to meet the needs of internal customers, in compliance with the purchasing/sourcing orientations and company procedures.
• Role may be cumulated with that of Lead buyer depending on the skill level regarding sourcing and supplier market knowledge.
• Ensures the accurate development in the iteration process of the Mapping, the sourcing and actions plan.
• Ensures the efficient execution of the Sourcing and action plan and its subsequent reporting.
• Ensures the alignment of the strategic negotiations with the supplier management.
• Ensures the compliance to contracts to be executed over the zone scope.

Business Partnering:

• Ensures local business partners’ service levels are satisfied.
• Is handling specific local needs and is a facilitator for the purchasing function between stakeholders and lead buyers.
• Develops strong relationship with his/hers executive customers with the support of the Regional Procurement Domain Managers
• Ensures procurement integration within the business with the support of the Regional Procurement Domain Managers.

Persons Specification

• Education: A degree in Business Administration or Economics
• Experience: Minimum of 8 years’ experience in related field.

Additional Requirement:

• Integrity
• Technology knowledge
• Microsoft Office tools
• Result orientation
• Goal-driven
• Personal Accountability
• Customer Service Orientation
• Responsiveness
• Team Work
• Ability to negotiate.