Job Title: Procurement Business Manager - Operations
Job number: 1549BR
Location: Ibadan
Location: Ibadan
British American Tobacco (www.bat.com) is a market leading, global organisation with
a long, established history and a bright and dynamic future. Thanks to our
people we have continued to deliver growth and exceed expectations in an
increasingly complex and challenging marketplace.
Our aim is to become the leading tobacco company in each of our markets by providing excellent products with confidence and responsibility expected of global consumer brands.
If you have the talent and motivation to help us succeed you’ll find we are equally committed to helping you reach your full potential too.
Our aim is to become the leading tobacco company in each of our markets by providing excellent products with confidence and responsibility expected of global consumer brands.
If you have the talent and motivation to help us succeed you’ll find we are equally committed to helping you reach your full potential too.
Requirements
- Good
influencing and facilitation skills to act as the interface between end
market business units and procurement balancing the optimum delivery of
customer requirements with the need to adhere to a global approach
- Sound
knowledge of corporate regulations and local legislation to ensure the
creation of effective commercial contracts.
- Sound
knowledge of the procurement processes, platforms and policies
- Educated
to degree level or equivalent in a relevant business discipline
- Fluency
in English
- 3-5
years of experience in sourcing and/or account management
- Experienced
in the sourcing process including negotiation and contracts placement
- Understanding
of financial evaluation and interpretation of supplier’s records and their
key cost and business drivers.
- Experience
in managing projects, especially to execute category and sourcing
strategies at end market level.
Responsibilities
- To
communicate to the customer any new and innovative developments
highlighted through Procurement stakeholders (e.g. by the Geographic
Procurement Manager) and relay any feedback on the use or development of
these new products or services back to procurement for further action.
- Drive
a continuous improvement process in relation to security of supply as well
as quality and cost of Indirect Spends.
- Instigate
continuous improvement initiatives with suppliers, managing resource and
actions from other functions into this process to deliver quality
enhancement and best total value.
- Provide
leadership and motivation to Indirect Procurement staff to enable them
realise their potential and offer their best to BAT
- Create
and nurture an environment in which ethical and professional business
values underlie all facet of procurement activity
- Ensure
full cross-functional commitment to strategies through communication,
education and evaluation of initiatives
- Adopting
the most cost effective purchasing processes to achieve best total
acquisition cost and balance the requirements of internal customers &
Procurement.
- Ensure
that BAT Nigeria applies Common Platforms, Best Practices and complies
with Global and Regional Directives as well as local and statutory
policies.
- Development
of an effective information system that provides optimal support to the
whole Indirect Procurement process.
- Ensure
that the Company plan is based on accurate demand captured from the
business units.
- Ensure
that the appropriate metrics, i.e. measurement tools, are in place and being
used effectively to monitor and explain overall Indirect Procurement
performance.
- To
own the relationship between procurement and all its internal &
external customers at end market level.
- To
act as the interface with local budget holders ensuring the delivery of
both their service requirements and those of procurement.
- To
undertake sourcing activities for a number of categories that are managed
at end market level (i.e. not globally or regionally managed).
- To
manage the continuous improvement and supply security process for all
Indirect goods and services categories for the factory environment (Ibadan
& Zaria) in British American Tobacco Nigeria and drive full compliance
with Global and Regional Common Platforms, Best Practices, Policies and
Procedures, and ensure that BAT Nigeria obtains optimum value for money
from its expenditure on Indirect Spends
- To
manage the customer relationship and all aspects of procurement related
customer service for all Indirect goods and services categories for the
factory environment (Ibadan & Zaria) in BAT Nigeria.
- To
understand customer/business unit requirements including their business
goals, targets, initiatives, directions and supplier performance
requirements.
- To
manage the local customer relationship for those categories being managed
at end market level, shaping demand and compliance where appropriate.
- To
deliver end market contracts in conjunction with Legal.
- To
ensure all contracts are agreed with the relevant business owners.
- To
collate all relevant end market business unit procurement requirements,
providing the necessary information to ensure robust planning, budget and
target setting.
- To
challenge demand and requirements and manage customer expectations to
ensure compliance and drive continuous improvement.
- To
communicate appropriate supply chain and procurement messages regarding
strategies, process and policies to customers, to ensure compliance and
engender a common understanding of each other’s goals and targets.
- Responsible
for approving supplier selection for categories managed at an end market
level.
- Identifying
and managing the risk which exists whenever we contract for goods and
services with suppliers and service providers
- Management
of procurement strategies in partnership with key stakeholders.
- Responsible
for implementing regional, global and geographic category strategies and
sourcing plans at end market level.
- To
ensure the business is compliant with procurement policy and actively
manage any compliance issues.
- To
use a consistent approach using the agreed global policies, standards and
platforms in all day to day tasks. This may include developing internal
Service Level Agreement and monitoring against this performance.
- To
mitigate BAT’s exposure to service delivery and commercial risk through
the delivery of robust end-market contracts and the management of the
business relationship.
- To
identify the correct route for the resolution of contractual performance
issues and manages their resolution.
- Ensure
the effective deployment of an information system that provides optimal
support to the buying process.
- To
coach and develop direct reports and to ensure they have personal
development plans in place.
- To
manage procurement support team which include transactional procurement
team, legal etc.
- To
build strong multi-level business relationships with end market customers.
- To
know who their key customer stakeholders are, and to ensure an appropriate
plan and approach is in place for each area/function.
- To
manage any conflicting requirements between customer and procurement at
end market level escalating any issues as appropriate to the Area Head of
Procurement.
- Maintain
high level of internal customer satisfaction with the individual and the
processes used.
- Continuous
supply improvements delivered to BAT Nigeria, measured in terms
significant cost reduction, supplier rationalisation, high levels of
service, introduction of business process changes and complexity
reduction.
- Management
of procurement strategies in partnership with key stakeholders.
- Analyse
financial and market data, to build and maintain knowledge on all aspects
of supply related external environment, on behalf of our internal
customers.
- Multi-functional
Approach Understanding of a wide range of commodities and the associated
total cost drivers.
- Implement
a Supplier/Customer Performance improvement and Tracking System for the
purpose of optimising Supplier/Customer performance and achieving improved
supplier/customer partnerships.
- To
determine the scope, scale and impact of any new products or services
required by the customer.
- To
communicate these requirements to the relevant Category Manager where
appropriate or to amend end market strategies and contracts as required to
meet the customer needs.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
click here to apply
Application Deadline 5th June, 2013
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