Senior Procurement Lead
Efficio Consulting
Total years of experience :14 years, 10 Months
▪ Reducing the department's operating costs by 13% YoY through restructuring of roles and duties and reducing unnecessary headcount, implementing a category-based procurement strategy and segregating duties and tasks among the existing staff.
▪ Minimizing cost increments to the least possible by implementing long-term supply agreements with OEM, manufacturers, retailers and other vendors. This also included building a demand forecast model based on previous purchase trends and taking into consideration the evolution of the clients’ requirements and needs with the deployment of new technologies such as 5G network, Space X, Rural telephony solutions and Fiber optics deployment. This led to making deals with major companies such as Yanmar, Exide, Parallel wireless, Nokia, ZTE and Huawei, to name a few.
▪ Overhauled the vendor management system in company, inline with the group requirements, whereby vendor onboarding became more rigorous, ensuring that only qualified vendors are included in our databases. Also, this included updating the vendor assessment process for post delivery and post job execution by implementing a mandatory feedback application from the end-user side to rank, provide comments, and highlight the overall delivery aspect. This combined with the terms and agreements existing with the vendors, provided me with the needed visibility on high performers to retain and low performers that needed to be dropped.
▪ Conducted, solicited and evaluated tenders, bids, proposals and quotations to ensure overall competitiveness, quality, and conformity to the various project requirements at hand, including RFI/P/Q/X.
▪ Maintaining a 99% data accuracy standard, though clear visible and transparent record keeping, including usage of ERP software (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) and other tools such as Office suite tools (Excel trackers, Access databases, etc…)
▪ Increased internal customer satisfaction by over 80% through a streamlined procurement process and open communications with all stakeholders
▪ Streamlined material procurement process thereby reducing material return rates by 40% by ensuring requests are properly detailed in terms of the technical specs needed.
▪ Coordinating all supply chain services and functions within the company and managing 100% of the purchasing transactional functions, including preparing and processing purchase orders and purchase requisitions.
▪ Managed a team of 40+ employees, implemented warehouse policies and procedures, and coordinated delivery routes, loading schedules, performed supervisory work for field and warehouse staff, through hiring, training and promoting
▪ Decreased dispatch lead times from 21 days to a maximum of 3 days
▪ Was responsible for 6 company-owned warehouses across Nigeria
▪ Provided bi-annual trainings for all team-members
▪ Coordinated deliveries, receipts, vehicles, load and journeys
▪ Stock management and supervision, General warehouse operations management and routine physical inventory
▪ Set up a stock storage system that improved overall warehouse efficiency by 60%
▪ Analyzed daily inventory and implemented system changes to optimize warehouse space with an increase from 40% to 78% efficiency in 4 Months
▪ Reorganized the warehouse inventory system, making the process 50% less cumbersome to handle than before
▪ Strategically setting up the warehouse layout and ensure efficient space utilization.
▪ Coordinate and monitor the receipt, assembly and dispatch of goods.
▪ Managed and lead a team of up to 25 employees - warehouse and truck drivers
▪ Was fully responsible for pre-delivery compliance and post-delivery checks
▪ General warehouse operations management & purchase follow up
▪ Stock management and supervision
▪ Coordinating drives, vehicles, loads and journeys
▪ Improved order turnaround time by 35% through implementation of lean processes
▪ Managed day-to-day shipping and receiving, moving more than 5 trips, each containing 100+ items in 8-hour period
▪ Negotiating and agreeing contracts with suppliers, manufacturers, retailers and consumers
▪ Preparing paperwork for regulatory bodies
▪ Stock management and supervision, including routine physical inventory checks
▪ Preparing and processing purchase orders and purchase requisitions
▪ Maintaining documentation of the acquisition of goods and services
▪ Controlling spend and building a culture of long-term saving on procurement costs
▪ Setting long-term purchasing strategies & trend
▪ Lead convert rate reached 5%
▪ Identified, developed and closed key sales opportunities that lead to more than 100 sales on the local market
▪ Run Google and Facebook Ads Campaigns along with online Branding and marketing for the news website through Social Media platforms.
▪ In charge of staff training on usage of the website’s backend control panel and interface.