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What you will be doing

As part of the Regional Category Management Team, you will be responsible for strategic regional category management through relevant, impactful, innovative category strategies aligned to business requirements and an in-depth understanding of market dynamics and potential business impact.

The focus of the team will be,

• To centralize and proactively manage the demand on regional level to effectively manage pipeline
• Setting up a standardized process and ways of working
• Strategic regional supplier partnerships and supplier innovation to address technical and sustainability business challenges/opportunities.

The role will further be responsible for Sourcing & Contracting of routine and tactical contracts, Project Procurement management and Purchasing management in the region.

Categories in scope (but not limited to), structural repairs, key components upgrade/replacement, equipment overhaul, outsourced maintenance & repairs, and spare parts etc. on regional level (in close collaboration with global and local teams)

Accountabilities will include,

• You will be responsible for creating transparency to leverage our scale across APM Terminals, secure efficient demand management, share best practices and ensure minimum compliance standards.
• Create sourcing strategies, perform benchmarking, and collect market analysis
• Drive all RFQ/tender activity and negotiations within assigned categories, regions, and countries, to maximize value and cost savings benefits while lowering risk
• Responsible for managing the contracting process end-to-end, including legal alignment
• Develop regional supplier relationships with strategic suppliers to include data review and analysis, performance management and development, and bring innovation to the business
• Collect voice of customers in the regions and identify opportunities for regional cross-leverage in close alignment with global Asset Category Management and Technical team
• Execution of global categories vision, strategy, and implementation plan on regional level
• Primary owner of the relationship with regional and local terminal stakeholders
• Collaborate on strategies with Global Category Manager. Bring in Business and Regional Insights into Strategy. Work closely with fellow regional Category Managers

Our employees represent a wide range of educational and cultural backgrounds, work experience and nationalities. You should be capable of thriving in a fast paced, rapidly changing, and dynamic environment. You must display a true team player attitude with strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills. We would like you to have,

• + 5 years’ experience in procurement
• Strategic mindset, holistic picture, proactiveness and willingness to challenge status quo
• Ability to work with ambiguity and navigate through regional cross-functional and cross-geographical complexities, with strong result orientation
• You are a highly result-driven and solution-focused individual with the ability to manage a variety of tasks
• Ability to balance both short- and long-term orientation for the business
• Good knowledge of regional business challenges and supplier landscape
• Basic knowledge of terminal asset and operations
• High-level understanding of Asset Lifecycle Management categories and challenges
• Strong project management skills
• Solid analytical and presentation skills
• Supply-chain and ERP system know-how
• Good legal and contracting knowledge

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For this you will:

• Ensure adherence to HR procedures, practices, directives, systems and regulations within an assigned set of countries  
• Solve HR queries online, on the phone or on site.
• Support training & change management activities, especially for frontline employees
• Manage case resolutions (opening, updating, escalating as needed, resolving and closing)
• Guide employees and leaders in using self-service in Workday and other HR systems
• Manage HR data quality and perform transactions in Workday and other HR systems
• Prepare and handle HR documentation
• Coordinate and administer onboarding and offboarding processes
• Execute required uploads/changes on the performance forms in the system
• Support HR community with administrative and executional requiring face to face employee interaction i.e. wet signatures from employees, tasks related to frontline employees
• Assist with administrative tasks related to L&D, recruitment when needed
• Support on deployment of local/PPO projects  
• Provide general HR support to employees around the employee life cycle and provide guidance on HR knowledge content, such as global & local HR policies, How-To, etc.
• Support recruiting tasks in remote locations where the recruitment processes demand special attention (cultural aspects, specific testing/assessment, security risks, etc).
• Handle documents, i.e. physical archiving of employee documents where legally required, statutory filing of local documents, etc.
• Perform workforce scheduling, and administers time and leave data entry for blue collar population  
• Review and act on the feedback/comments from employees and HR users to improve the employee experience
• Collect company properties upon exit of employees (in absence of People Partner or Manager)

Job Location: APM Terminal, Apapa Lagos. Nigeria

Who we are looking for?

You are customer-oriented and passionate about employee experience! You have high energy and drive and efficiently manage resolution of every employee query.

As for the skillset and experience, we are looking for:

• 3 - 5 years’ experience in an HR role; you could also have several years’ experience in a customer-facing service role and an interest in pursuing a career in HR
• A degree in Human Resources or similar and knowledge of HR concepts are a strong plus
• Knowledge of local labour law would be beneficial
• Experience working with HR systems, preferably Workday, would be an asset.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills, ability to manage conflict, and attention to detail
• Drive to identify needs, investigate options, seek solutions and partner with other HR colleagues to resolve issues
• Ability to take initiative, manage multiple priorities and work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to be an engaged member of a virtual team
• Closure orientation and low tolerance for delays and deviations
• Fluent in English plus another regional language (list here e.g. Portuguese, Arabic and French speakers would be a plus as we are looking to grow the hub in the coming year)