Non-Commodity Procurement Manager (Spare Parts)

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