Jobs at Olam Agri

The Procurement Manager is responsible for developing and executing procurement strategies that ensure the timely, cost‑effective, and quality-focused acquisition of goods and services. This role oversees supplier management, contract negotiation, cost optimization, and compliance while supporting organizational objectives and operational continuity.

Key Deliverables

Manage all aspects of non-commodity procurement, from sourcing to delivery. These include:

• Strategic Sourcing: Developing sourcing strategies, negotiating contracts, and identifying alternative sources to achieve productivity gains and cost savings
• Supplier Management: Evaluating and selecting suppliers based on quality, cost, and capability
• Directly handling big global cooperatives and suppliers
• Operational oversight: Overseeing contract implementation, resolving operational issues and managing budgets and forecasts.
• Pricing ideas – Adopt to market practices and ensure cost-effective buying.
• Compliance: Ensuring all procurement policies and regulations are followed.
• Able to plan and manage the required logistics and other supportive functions.
• Plan and expand the operating geographies and suppliers.
• Competition information – Arrivals, Pricing, offers etc.
• Cost: Manage the direct cost of operations within the allotted budget.
• Quality: Ensure optimum quality of engineering spares is procured.
• Sustainability: Anchor and lead the sustainability initiatives.

Strategic Effectiveness

• You will be responsible for the optimal utilization of resources
• Support implementation of required infrastructure as per the business plan and derive maximum capacity efficiencies by eliminating controllable losses
• Be responsible for all Engineering Spares & Services.
• Ability to build teams - hiring, training, and developing team members.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders involving formal business reviews and ongoing continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Good communication skills.
• Team player, with team management skills.
• Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team-building skills.
• Ability to leverage modern procurement tools and ERP systems to automate sourcing, vendor management and procurement analytics for improved efficiency and transparency.
• Establish structured supplier performance reviews (KPIs, SLAs) to drive continuous improvement, strengthen long-tern partnerships and ensure alignment with organizational quality and cost objectives.
• Risk Mitigation (planning)- Ability to identify and mitigate supply chain risks by developing contingency sourcing strategies.
• ⁠Be able to drive value in cost benchmarking through structured negotiations, should-cost analysis and continuous monitoring of cost drivers to ensure optimal procurement decisions.

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The Regional Veterinary Manager is responsible for providing strategic, clinical, and operational leadership across multiple veterinary sites within an assigned region. This role ensures high standards of animal health, welfare, clinical excellence, regulatory compliance, and business performance while supporting and developing veterinary teams to deliver consistent, quality services.

Key Deliverables

• Implement approved OHL sales fulfilment process(es). 
• Supervise and manage the regional field force (where applicable) activities to ensure professional conduct and achievement of set company objectives.
• To take direct responsibility for key accounts to ensure that long-term customer relationship is built and maintained to achieve the goals of OHL and of Olam IFP at large.
• To ensure sales of regional chicks’ quota are fully sold within the given time frame and in accordance with company SOPs. To conduct regular regionwide customer satisfaction survey and develop customer satisfaction plans consistent with the peculiarities of the region to improve customer satisfaction in compliance with company policies.
• To update management on progress of OHL customers, market realities and activities of competitors within the coverage region from time to time through relevant periodic reports

Strategic Effectiveness

• To suggest and channel incentive strategies as appropriate for Customers and Team motivation towards achieving set objectives to the management as the need arises.
• To ensure regular feedback to management on field force activities and performance changes in his coverage region for adequate and effective decision and strategic changes  To develop regional plan(s) to ensure adequate and effective customer management, effective coverage by ASM’s (where applicable), meet sales quotas and check Customers and Reports compliance from time to time.
• To ensure regular, weekly and monthly field reports on sales progress and competition are sent for the region.
• Render weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual sales and customer satisfaction report to the line Manger as may be required/requested.
• To attend and participate as may be directed by the Line Manager, periodic performance review and planning sessions (Plan of Action sessions).
• To continue to work in synergy with other IFP units & departments where appropriate to achieve the bigger Business Goals.
• Any other duty that may be assigned by the NSM-OHL and the NSM-IFP

Requirements

• Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) or equivalent veterinary degree from an accredited institution.
• Full registration and license to practice veterinary medicine in the relevant jurisdiction.
• Minimum of 5 years post-qualification veterinary experience. Strong leadership, people management, and coaching skills.
• Excellent clinical judgment and problem-solving ability.
• Commercial and operational acumen.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• High level of integrity, professionalism, and ethical standards.
• Ability to travel frequently across the region.
• Proficiency in veterinary management systems and reporting tools