Job Title: Non-Commodity Procurement Manager (Spare Parts)
Sector: FMCG
Location - Ilorin, Kwara State (no accommodation)
Work mode: Fulltime (Onsite)
Role Responsibilities:
Manage all aspects of non-commodity procurement (Spare Parts), 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.
Geography
- Plan and expand the operating geographies and suppliers.
- Competition information – Arrivals, Pricing, offers etc.
Key deliverables
- 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
Operational 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
Organizational effectiveness:
- Ability to build teams - hiring, training, and developing team members
- Collaborate with key stakeholders involving formal business reviews and ongoing continuous improvement initiatives
Key Specifics:
- Bachelor's degree in Procurement & Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Minimum of 5–8 years of relevant procurement experience,
- 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