Technical Procurement Manager at Phillips Consulting

SALARY: 450KGROSS
 
REQUIREMENTS

• candidate must have experience in sourcing, vendor management, and buying too.
• Bachelor’s degree in administration or any related field.
• Minimum of 5 years work experience
• A thorough understanding of sourcing methodologies.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Understand the business of procurement (Sourcing)
• Sound time-management and organizational skills.
• Good understanding of margins when pricing
• Must have very good analytical skills (spreadsheet ninja)
• Must be focused on order fulfillment and not just on placing orders with suppliers
• Proven experience in Customer service
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Carry out competitive sourcing using Rfq on e-sourcing platforms to reduce procurement cycle time, establish transparency and traceability.
• Source and onboard suppliers to achieve business measures: - Identifying intermediary suppliers and eliminating 80% of intermediary suppliers.
• Source, evaluate, and select vendors based on the evaluation of bids tendered.
• Constantly tracking and ranking all suppliers on pricing, quality, and speed of response to help guide supplier choice.
• Create purchase requisitions and purchase orders
• Facilitate the creation and management of supplier contracts. .
• Build and manage vendor/ supplier management database and SLA adherence tracker.
• Agree and maintain SLAs with the sales team for turn-around time for responding to requests.
• Develop and implement proper purchasing policies, controls, SOPs, and Processes for the department.
• Ensure that all requests are attended to within 48 hours.
• Ensure tracking of all requests via a CRM system to ensure that no request gets forgotten.
• Responsible for tracking and ensuring that our company wins at least 90% of quotations that they send to clients.
• Sourcing suppliers and maintaining long-lasting relationships with them as well as existing suppliers.
• Obtaining quotes from different suppliers.
• Generating quote comparisons and contributing to internal supplier selection based on the quotes.