Job Title: Category Lead

Reports To: Supply Chain &Manager

Department/Group: Supply Chain

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Location: Freetown, Sierra Leone

Posting Expires: 3^rd February 2023

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Category Lead will oversee purchasing activities and ensure that purchased items are both cost efficient of high quality. The Category Lead responsibilities include supervising staff, maintaining positive supplier relations, evaluating supply options, approving purchases and maintaining accurate records

Key Responsibilities: 

∙ The Category Lead should play an important role in ensuring the business is enabled to execute operational and strategic plans

∙ Generate spend analysis and identify opportunities for optimization ∙ Create detailed category strategies that identify savings and business optimization opportunities allows better budget management

∙ Reviewing, comparing, analyzing, and approving products and services to be purchased. ∙ Preparing budgets, cost analyses, and reports

∙ Control spend and build a culture of long-term saving on procurement costs ∙ Coordinate with the Inventory Officer to ensure any inventory management requirements are in market tests and contracts

∙ Properly structure contracts and ensure standard company contracts templates are used. Also that all stakeholders review and give inputs into contracts before finalizing for signatures∙ Be a primary contact for all local supplies and manage supplier / vendor relationship appropriately. Includes – following up on outstanding documents, payments and contracts ∙ Perform risk management for supply contracts and agreements

∙ Researching and evaluating prospective suppliers

∙ Expedite orders for critical business projects

∙ Support continuous business process improvement initiatives in the planning processes∙ Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness ∙ Responsible for accurately maintaining the records of all purchases ∙ Ensure all purchase requests are implemented – all purchase / services requests ∙ Ensure all companies procurement processes, policies and procedures are adhered to.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE 

∙ Bachelor’s degree in procurement or related field

∙ Minimum 3 years of experience preferably in the same industry ∙ Strong communication and negotiation skills and networking ∙ Good analytical and strategic thinking skills

∙ Supervisory and management experience

∙ Attention to details

∙ Aptitude in decision making an working with numbers

∙ Analytical and problem solving skills

∙ Proficiency with revenue software and tools

Kindly send all applications to;

hr@zoodlabs.com

The closing date for all applications is on the 3rd February 2023.