Job Openings at Afordonz Consulting Limited

Job Summary

• The Procurement Officer will be responsible for developing, executing, and managing the sourcing strategy and tactical plans for indirect spend
• Category. Procurement managed by this position are those identified as strategic, business critical, and/or having significant leverage opportunity.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, execute, and track group strategy and policies for one or more merchandise category leveraging the identified value handle.
• Collaborate with the business to define category needs and specifications
• Manage and direct the strategic sourcing efforts (sourcing calendar)
• Complete the collection, analysis, and reporting of category spend and savings data monthly
• Conduct the development of sourcing strategies, industry and supplier research, bidding, supplier selection, and contract negotiations
• Perform value analysis and total cost of ownership analytical activities
• Coordinate strategic sourcing activities with stakeholders for sourced categories, including preparing category sourcing results and sourcing step details
• and summaries
• Provide Stakeholders’ department with spend savings analysis across categories for forecasting and budgeting purposes
• Prepare periodic stakeholder activities alignment and category planning materials
• Coordinate with Stakeholder and Legal department on contract negotiations
• Report on contracting activity
• Developed excellent customer database and maintain good customer relation
• Organize purchasing orders and requests for purchase orders of goods and materials
• Contact suppliers with a request for purchase
• Review the company inventory to see what needs to be purchased
• Order necessary company products and supplies
• Monitor income deliveries against purchased goods to make sure there is no discrepancy
• Track orders
• Manage orders that were never purchased, never delivered or damaged upon arrival
• Communicate with accounts receivable and accounts payable to make outstanding are settled promptly.
• Create and maintain any reports to document material traffic

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least four years of relevant strategic sourcing experience
• Prior management experience
• Project management experience
• Procurement and strategic sourcing knowledge, specifically with multiple retail, merchandise specific category sourcing expertise
• Understanding of cost savings approaches
• Established strategic sourcing skills, including documentation and communication of strategy
• Networking and team skills
• Strategically oriented
• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Analytical skills
• Ability to successfully address large supplier relationships

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Job Roles

• Interpret and explain contracts and technical information to other professionals
• Report work- in- progress and budget matters to clients
• Select, schedule, and coordinate subcontractor activities
• Respond to work delays, emergencies, and other problems
• Comply with legal requirements, building and safety codes, and other regulations
• Ability to coordinate and supervise a wide variety of projects, including the building of all types of public, residential, commercial, and industrial structures, roads and bridges from start to finish.
• Ability to oversee specialized contractors and other personnel, schedule and coordinate all construction processes so that projects meet design specifications and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget
• Must be able to work closely with other building specialists, such as architects, civil engineers, and a variety of trade workers.
• Would be responsible for getting approvals from various building and construction regulating bodies such as state and local government officials and confer with city inspectors to ensure that all regulations are met.
• Ability to prepare budgets, cost estimation using specialized cost-estimating and planning software to allocate time, materials and money in order to complete projects on time and save cost.
• Would be responsible for vetting all civil and structural works details, manage and provide final approval for all consultants’ submission including services, issue to contractors all approved drawings for construction.
• Responsible for overall field activities and ensure proper interpretation of drawings on site, approve all construction related actions, ensure conformance and compliance of consultants drawings and contractors submission.
• Responsible for managing scope change request, Review and approve all shop drawing provided by contractor and approved job completion certificate
• Responsible for initiating project meetings and coordinates monthly project meetings.

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate should have at least a B.Eng / B.Sc Degree in Civil or Building Engineering, with a minimum of 8 years experience on the job role.

Skill Set and Profile

• Strong interpersonal/Communication skills
• Strong project management knowledge and skills
• Good Reporting and administrative writing skill
• Excellent learning and transferable skills
• Able to work in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Focused on continually improving and learning new skills
• Analytical and problem solving skills, ability to use modern engineering software tools in analyzing and solving problems.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
• Able to work independently and efficiently to meet deadlines.
• Able to promptly answer support related email, phone calls and other electronic communications.
• Ability to lead and motivate a team.

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Role Summary

• The Cost Administrator is fully dedicated to internal clients, their needs and their duties.
• S/he would interfaces with various departments within the organization to perform cost management and estimating consulting services to align Company’s services to the needs of clients with the goal of providing industry leading consultation and revenue growth

Responsibilities

• Research prices on material, time and labour costs using published documents, local conditions, market studies, etc.
• Prepare and monitor project cashflow forecasts.
• Measure, value, submit and negotiate contract variations.
• Provide advice to project staff on commercial and contractual matters including reviewing and drafting of correspondence.
• Prepare preliminary estimates, cost plans, feasibility studies including advising the project team on economical construction methods, procurement, programming and contract matters, to enable costs to be accurately advised to clients.
• Undertake a range of related duties that will contribute to the provision of a comprehensive quantity surveying service to clients; these will include preparing relevant insurance valuations, cost in use studies and life cycle costing, schedules of dilapidations and technical audits, etc.
• To carry out monthly valuations of work in progress, including forecasting of final costs and sales.
• Prepare submit and negotiate project final accounts.
• Ensure that business commercial processes are adhered to at project level.
• Monitor all commercial information in relation to project including labour, material and sub contractor cost forecasting thus ensuring budgets adhered to.
• Monitoring each stage of construction to make sure that costs are in line with forecasts
• Assist in preparation and adherence to project purchasing targeting and costing budgets.
• Develop and nurture subcontractor/vendor and client relationships.
• Communicate regularly with project staff and specialist subcontractors to ensure commercial controls are in place, understood and followed at all times.
• Supply all relevant information to management for review at the specified intervals set.
• Providing financial progress reports to clients
• Assist with planning and scheduling new work and in dealing with incoming enquiries in order to provide best value and timely services to clients.

Skills Set and Profile

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, with a minimum of 5 years of experience, preferably in the real estate or construction industry.
• Strong interpersonal/Communication skills
• Good Reporting and administrative writing skill
• Diplomatic, tactful, discreet, flexible, resourceful, dependable.
• Problem solving, conflict management and negotiation skills
• Customer service-oriented
• High business acumen and commerciality
• Project management and change management skills
• Teamwork
• Attention to details