3 Procurement jobs in Lagos

Our client is a leading trading company based in Nigeria that specializes in the exportation of high-quality cocoa beans and cashew. Due to expansion, they are in need of a Procurement Team Lead. Location: Victoria Island, Lagos. Job Summary: The ideal candidate will be responsible for optimizing the procurement process, ensuring cost effectiveness, and building strong relationships with vendors and suppliers. You will lead a team to execute procurement strategies that align with the company's goals and drive efficiency across all purchasing activities. Job Responsibilities: Develop, implement, and manage procurement strategies for local and foreign suppliers that support the company’s business objectives.Identify trends, patterns, and opportunities for process optimization, cost reduction, and operational efficiency improvement in the Company’s procurement process.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather relevant data and insights for analysis.Develop and maintain revenue performance metrics and KPIs, monitoring performance against targets and providing regular reports and analysis to stakeholders.Assist in implementing systems, technologies, and tools to enhance transparency, visibility, efficiency, and collaboration with clients and internal customers.Collaborate with suppliers and vendors to standardize and optimize procurement processes, improve lead times, and ensure quality and reliability of the Company’s supply chain.Support the analysis and evaluation of supplier performance, including monitoring on-time delivery, quality metrics, and contract compliance.Lead negotiations with suppliers to secure favorable pricing, terms, and conditions while maintaining quality standards.Monitor market trends and industry best practices in the commodities trading, haulage & logistics supply chain management, identifying opportunities for innovation and competitive advantage.Informs Company’s personnel of standard purchasing procedures and regulations and maintains purchasing records.Ensure appropriate cost, quality and vendor analysis/comparisons before embarking on the purchase of any and all equipment. Job Requirements: Minimum of a first degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or any related discipline.5 – 7 years of previous experience in a similar roleProven track record in leading or setting up a procurement team and leading cross-functional projects.Experience within commodities trading space will be an added advantage.Credible experience in across the procurement value-chains.Knowledge of import processesExperienced at compiling and following strict budgets.

The mission of Microsoft Business Applications is to help our customers digitally transform their businesses to drive new sources of revenue, create new and engaging ways to serve their customers, and to transform the way in which their business runs to drive new levels of profitability for their organization.
In this role you will be the Technology Specialist (pre-sales consultant) for your assigned workload and a member of the sales team that consists of Solution Specialist, Customer Success Unit, partners, and engineering. In this role you will advance pipeline by assisting the Solution Specialist in qualifying the deal, developing the strategy and inspiring the CxO/Business Decision Maker/Technical Decision Maker. You are responsible for designing the solution and delivering an industry-aligned demonstration to the customer. You will engage partners for co-sell and implementation considerations, engineering to assist with emerging technologies and Customer Success Unit for deal support. The demo will focus on solving the technical proof requirements while highlighting our business value and competitive differentiators and should result in securing the customer's solution design endorsement. Once the solution design is secured, you will support the Solution Specialist in finalizing the customer proposal and assisting with licensing.
You will develop relationships with the decision makers with our customers and position yourself as a trusted advisor in your domain. As a recognized product expert, you are responsible for sharing your technical, industry knowledge and best practices with your peers.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
**Responsibilities**
+ Advance qualified pipeline revenue by demonstrating solution capabilities, addressing technical proof requirements, and securing the customer's solution design endorsement.
+ Engage with the account team to land solution envisioning sessions and business value assessments.
+ Proactively deliver compelling customer centric solution demonstrations based on technical workload expertise while building Business Decision Maker/CxO/Technical Decision Maker connections.
+ Address solution architecture considerations and competitive objection handling.
+ Assist in formalizing the customer proposal.
+ Collaborate with Partners and Customer Success to align on agreed upon deployment plan and Key Performance Indicators.
+ Lead discovery sessions in each opportunity, yielding output of customer-agreed business challenges and win themes prioritized with business value.
**Qualifications**
**Required/minimum qualifications**
+ 6+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
+ OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
+ OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
+ OR equivalent experience.
**Additional or preferred qualifications**
+ 7+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
+ 4+ years' experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
+ 7+ years of related experience:
+ Solution pre-sales for business applications and/or SaaS-based company or similar technology.
+ Solution pre-sales of complex business application deals requiring orchestration of large, dispersed, virtual teams composed of industry and solution team members.
+ Solutions pre-sales best practices including but not limited to; discovery, building and crafting solution strategies that differentiate from the competition, value-based selling, identifying, and expanding product opportunities.
+ Successful track record of competitive displacement.
+ Ability to drive and influence stakeholders across organizational boundaries through organizational, presentation, envisioning, writing, and verbal communication skills.
+ Proven track record in prioritization and orchestration of resources for complex customer digital transformation engagements.
+ Deep understanding of: Business application solutions
+ Commercial cloud offerings, ideally Microsoft's cloud platform as well as competitive knowledge of other business applications and related ecosystems.
+ Customer facing business processes in one or more industries such as Financial Services, Manufacturing, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Retail & Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Public Sector and Media & Communications.
+ Business value selling methodologies and practices that successfully convey the value and business outcomes
+ How to uncover customer's stated and unstated needs and how technology can be leveraged to solve business problems.
+ Desired Skills:
+ High level of self-awareness, reflection, and empathy.
+ Ability to skillfully communicate, demonstrate, and prove the value of Dynamics 365 Business Applications.
+ Customer-centric mindset with demonstrated passion for delivering customer value.
+ Excel at coordinating team resources to build and deliver a compelling solution demonstration
+ Proven collaborator capable of influencing internal and external teams.
+ Excellent presentation and communications skills across various customer stakeholders, e.g., CIO, CFO, CMO, VP of Sales, etc.
+ Adept at challenging perspectives and differentiating from the competition by reframing value and exemplifying customer obsession.
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