Sourcing Executive at Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited)

Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited) is a leading telecommunications services provider in Nigeria headquartered in Lagos, the commercial nerve-centre of Nigeria. The telco ranks amongst the top four mobile service providers in terms of subscribers with a customer base of more than 39.8 million. The company’s product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce and enterprise services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Sourcing Executive

Job Identification: 558
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Schedule: Full time

Job Summary

• The job holder is to monitor and manage the procurement of Marketing and General Services related equipment and services at the right price, right quantity & quality from the most appropriate vendor at full cost of ownership to the benefit of Airtel to ensure good service delivery to its customers.

Responsibilities
Manage the processing of contracts from project brief to contract completion in conjunction with the Legal department:

• Checking/confirming payment terms, price & duration of project briefs in line with what was agreed for the contract
• Ensuring stakeholders (User department and vendor) agree on conditions of the contract
• Following up with Legal to ensure contract is drafted and sent to the vendor and fully signed internally.

Manage the end-to-end Purchase Order process for procurement of goods and services within their area of responsibility in line with approved purchasing requests:

• Sourcing/recommendation of vendors for the task
• Sending RFP/RFQs to the vendors
• Opening of bids and tendering evaluation/recommendation
• Negotiation and cost optimization/savings
• Contract award
• Processing PO on Oracle
• RFP response meetings to communicate details to vendors regarding tenders.

Manage vendor relationships in accordance with company guidelines, to support the realization of agreed procurement contracts & timelines for delivery:

• Vendor follow-up on key deliverables
• Management of vendor relationships to ensure SLAs are realized
• Timely closure of POs

Provide accurate information and guidance to user groups and other staff in Support of the planning, budgeting and goal setting processes to establish procurement goals:

• Accurate benchmarking of prices against market prices
• PO reports for budget teams.
• Ensure BOQ is in line with approved price book/rate card.

Manage price & contractual negotiations in line with favorable payment terms, statutory regulatory requirements, competitive pricing, quality assurance and delivery timelines favorable to the company:

• Contract negotiations
• Meeting with vendors/User to agree on SLAs and timelines
• Ensuring prices are in line with NCC/NOTAP regulatory requirements
• Detailed price negotiations using quotes as benchmark

Generation of required Procurement reports (Spend & Savings report, Sourcing performance report, Contract management report, Single source & emergency request report):

• Provision of Spend/savings report
• Contract renewals/expiration reports
• Provision of emergency request reports/reasons for the emergencies and supporting approvals
• Providing support to Snr Mgr Marketing Procurement on identification and corrections of process gaps in internal control environment.