Senior Purchasing Manager

Job Introduction

Adexen was mandated by a leading maritime organization to recruit a senior Purchasing Coordinator for their operations in Nigeria. The position is based in Port Harcourt.

Responsibilities

To supervise the purchasing team and team activities to support company operations, especially backlog management and update of PR and PO in ORACLE.

Local and International purchasing supervision for vessels operating in Nigeria, provide supplies and services as per purchase requests received in a timely and controlled manner in accordance with relative procedures.

To handle tendering and contracting process, propose new tenders and update existing contracts.

To plan, organize and manage purchasing team from the request/spec to the delivery onboard the vessels

To ensure the follow up of the strategy set up within the organization

To ensure the follow up of the weekly review with shipmanagers and buyers

To coordinate assigned team

Desired Skills and Experience

Understand budget concept, evaluate needs effectively, gather and manage data, monitor and review against changes, continuous budget optimization

Identify, analyse and review key performance indicators.

Know-how to manage customers relationships (internal & external): understanding needs, building relationship, influencing, offering added value solutions, collecting and evaluating client feedback.

Knowledge of data collection, data mining, data analysis, benchmarking and statistical techniques. Know-how to select data and use appropriately for research business intelligence or to solve complex situations.

Knowledge of flag, class and port state requirements, Maritime national & international conventions and regulations.

Technical knowledge of offshore support vessel types.

Knowledge of national and international HSE legislations and regulations: SOLAS, MARPOL, ISO14001, OSHA, etc...

Knowledge of structural design and all technics (mechanical, electrical, structural...) related to hull, painting, machinery and know-how to supervise vessel conversion and operational maintenance (planned maintenance, conditional maintenance, corrective maintenance) and New Building if applicable.

Industries:Human Resources

Function: Others