Ongoing Recruitment at TGI Group

TGI Distri Limited was established in 2017 with the primary goal of creating a world-class distribution, marketing, and logistics organization with the following key strategic objectives: Connecting TGI brands to the Nigerian consumer by managing sales, marketing, and logistics for all TGI Companies in the consumer space.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Assistant Procurement Manager

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Duties & Responsibilities

• Act as primary point of contact for suppliers.
• Identify and evaluate potential suppliers based on company requirements.
• Research vendors to identify best options, evaluating total cost and quality.
• Negotiate and finalize contracts, terms, and deadlines with vendors and suppliers.
• Monitor and communicate price fluctuations and vendor pricing updates to relevant departments.
• Engage in SLA service agreements, collaborating with end-users and legal department to ensure favourable terms.
• Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with vendors and suppliers.
• Develop and implement innovative and cost-effective procurement strategies.
• Source and engage reliable suppliers and vendors.
• Review existing contracts to ensure ongoing feasibility.
• Analyse current spend and identify areas for cost reduction and service improvement.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for high-spend, complex, and critical categories.
• Play a key role in the sourcing and procurement of capital equipment.
• Review purchase orders and manage the delivery of goods and services.
• Perform risk assessments on potential contracts and agreements.
• Control the procurement budget and promote a culture of long-term cost savings.
• Work closely with operations and finance to develop and implement an MRO inventory management system.
• Provide direction and support to teams on critical business initiatives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather category requirements and specifications.
• Conduct thorough spend analysis and develop tracking methodologies and metrics.
• Prepare procurement reports.
• Attend audit meetings and address any audit and compliance issues

Requirements

• A Degree (B.Sc / HND Preferably in Accounting / Business Administration / Engineering)
• Minimum of five (5) Years of experience in indirect procurement
• Proven experience in indirect procurement.
• Strong negotiation and communication skills.
• Ability to build and manage relationships with suppliers
• Working knowledge of MS Office, relational databases, and ERP systems (Navision)
• Knowledge of procurement best practices and regulations.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in procurement software and systems.

Application Closing Date: 19th July, 2024.

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2.) Quality Assurance Manager

Job Location: Sagamu, Ogun
Employment Type: Full-time

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the Quality vision for assigned business units
• Responsible for all Packaging Products Quality
• Responsible for Packaging development
• Drive cost savings projects relating to packaging
• Lead all Quality related loss elimination across site, identifying, eliminating, simplifying, combining and reducing QA work processes and losses.
• Responsible for Projects management of all packaging projects, and ensuring projects deliverables are met on time, within budgets, and no technical failure.
• Responsible for conducting all Quality Audits of Suppliers and all SAT and FAT for new process lines for assigned business units.
• Responsible for coordinating and facilitating all New Products development (NPD) and Existing product development (EPD) in alignment with Marketing team.
• Responsible for all quality input during engineering design process, all initiatives and projects (new equipment, building or capacity expansion).
• Responsible for Leading Packaging team which develop new Packaging options and Technology.
• Responsible for developing Packaging strategy and inputs into development of R&D Strategic plan for assigned business units.
• Drive the Quality of products and packaging across the entire group and benchmarking of products and Packaging.
• Design and review of product pallet configuration for assigned business units.
• Design and review of product pallet configuration for assigned business units.

Requirements and Skills

• Requires academic Qualification packaging technology (Through regular education & not short-term certified programs obtained online)
• 4 – 5 Years of experience in handling Quality aspects of packaging materials (Specifications development / Proficiency in Packaging Lab. operation)
• 5+ years’ experience in Quality Control in Packaging operations
• 3+ years in Supplier Quality Assurance
• 3 – 4 Years of staff development / coaching
• Soft skills: Good communication skills (Written / verbal), ability to handle complexity /Problem solving.

Additional - Added advantage:

• Knowledge / certifications on QMS / Food safety system
• Statistical process control.

Application Closing Date: 10th July, 2024.

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3.) Assistant Account Payable Manager (TGI Mart)

Job Location: Anthony, Lagos 
Employment Type: Full-time

Objectives

• The Assistant Account Payable Manager would be responsible for the smooth running and management of the Accounts payable unit.
• Saddled with the other tasks of providing reports to aid management decision as regards payment, processing of payment documents in a timely, accurate and cost-effective manner and provision of other accounting support.

Responsibilities

• Review all invoices for appropriate documentation and approval prior to payment.
• Enter and upload invoices into system and post transactions to journals, ledgers, and other records.
• Monitor accounts to ensure payments are up to date.
• Processing payment document in accordance with internal procedures and policy as well as in compliance with legal requirements i.e., Tax laws.
• Process Freight Payments and other third parties’ payments by recording entry; verifying documentation and making sure to release the payments within stipulated timelines.
• Reports of VAT and WHT by calculating requirements on paid invoices.
• Produce monthly reports, assist in month end closing and other projects as needed
• Track expenses and process expense reports such as floats, travels, staff vendors advance etc.
• Reconcile accounts payable transactions including vendor statements and prepare analysis of accounts
• Provide data for working capital forecasting requirements for vendors and other creditors.
• Reconciling vendor statements and maintaining liaison with suppliers to ensure that payments are made promptly, and accounts are up to date.
• Regular communication with internal and external clients via phone and email correspondence on payment matters
• Maintain files and documentation thoroughly and accurately, in accordance with company policy and accepted accounting practices
• Provide supporting documentation for audits and performs other duties as required to support the department.

Qualification and Key Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (Preferably in Finance / Accounting)
• 4 - 8 years in account payable or general accounting procedures
• An accounting professional certification in either ACCA, ICAN or equivalents
• Knowledge of NAVISON or a similar system is an advantage
• Ability to meet deadline, multi-task and follow-up on pending issues
• Proficient in data entry and management
• Ability to use MS Excel, Word, Power Point
• Must be open to change and willing to learn new skills

Skills Required:

• Leadership
• Initiative
• Self-driven and hardworking
• Detail oriented
• Good team player
• Organizational skills
• Written and verbal communications skills
• Flexibility

Application Closing Date: 20th July, 2024.

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