Procurement Process & Performance Manager Job at Lafarge Africa Plc

Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of the LafargeHolcim Group – the biggest building and concrete solutions company in the world. It is a publicly quoted company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and serves Nigeria with a wide range of building and construction solutions designed to meet housing and construction needs from small projects like individual home buildings to major construction and infrastructure projects.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Procurement Process & Performance Manager

Requisition ID: 9470
Job Location: Ikoyi, Lagos

About the Job

• Role holder is responsible for managing the Country Procurement reporting and performance in coordination with global and zone leadership.
• The role is on Procure-To-Pay (P2P) Process with working relationship with Local Procurement Operations, Local Procurement Category Management and Group Performance & Reporting.
• The role is also to challenge and guide category managers on saving initiatives and also ensure savings target are in line with budget.
• The role will provide analytical support to Line of Report to drive local Procurement improvements to processes, tools, and systems in support of category strategy execution, improved efficiency, and standardization.

What You'll Be Doing

• Challenge and guide category managers on saving initiatives and also ensure savings target are in line with budget
• Ensure group reporting is done and submitted on deadline
• Responsible for all local and group reporting in accordance with agreed time lines with local and group counterparts
• Management of Performance dashboards to drive visibility.
• Support the proper implementation and use of master data locally, including vendor, material and customer master data.
• Support the Category Management process in all subjects relating to spend and savings management.
• Support Performance Management, and Group Analytics with appropriate tools and capabilities to drive spend and transactional transparency
• Maintenance of Procurement tools and systems in close cooperation with the Global and regional teams, as well as IT service centers to ensure proper performance reporting and compliance measurement within Holcim Procurement.
• Ensure the proper implementation and use of master data locally, including vendor, material, and service masters.
• Custodian of Procurement Processes & Policy documents – update document in line with control standards as applicable in Minimum Control Standard (MCS) and ensure sign-off by all relevant stakeholder
• Business Process mapping for all P2P process.
• Support Procurement in setting up and validating benefit calculation.
• Development of a strong network with all relevant IT institutions within Holcim.
• Utilization of global and regional e-Sourcing and e-Procurement platforms once in place to drive center-led efficiencies
• Consult and guide the Group’s Procurement professionals to conduct eSourcing events
• Support the Category Management process in all subjects related to IT.
• Ensure a continuous improvement of both business and IT processes in Procurement in close cooperation with IT to achieve spend transparency and effective auditable processes.
• Support Procurement in setting up benefit strategies and IT processes.
• Support Performance Management, and Group Analytics with appropriate tools and capabilities to drive spend and transactional transparency
• Through direct report (Manager, Reporting), drive performance improvement in coordination with other teams from the global, zone, and local levels, providing insight, analysis, and reporting in support of improvement projects and initiatives
• Support and drive the spend management, reporting, and forecasting tools for Procurement within the local country.
• Support to Procurement Team in the area of IT tool use – e-procurement and contract review tools
• Support departmental planning through the budgeting and forecasting processes.

Who you'll be working with:
List Direct Reports:

• None

Key Interfaces/ Staekholders (External):

• Regional Performance Management / Analytics
• Country Category Management
• Country Finance / Controlling organization
• Country IT organization and Service Centers

Requirements
What we looking for:

• B.Sc / HND minimum (Finance background will be an added advantage)
• Proven performance in managing and developing P2P or other business processes, with requisite drive and energy to ensure a challenging benefits and capability building agenda is successfully delivered
• Experience in Project Management and IT support
• Finance acumen
• Analytical
• Digital skills

Behavioral competencies / Leadership and managerial Abilities:

• Highly effective time management, planning and organization skills; ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities and drive tasks to completion in a fixed time-frame and in a pressured environment.
• Strong written and oral communication skills; ability to communicate effectively (including technical and operational) and with all functions.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and build relationships across multiple functions
• Ability to deal with ambiguities, conflicts and adversarial relationships
• Experience and knowledge of SAP (Preferred, other ERP system experience considered)
• Demonstrated ability in analysis and interpretation of data including database management and solution design
• Proven ability to identify problems quickly, make sound judgments, establish and implement solutions.