The Procurement Officer role at Jamii Telecommunications Limited (JTL) involves managing the company's end-to-end procurement process and supply chain activities. The successful candidate will be responsible for sourcing suppliers, negotiating contracts, and managing vendor relationships to ensure timely and cost-effective procurement of goods and services. This role requires strong negotiation skills, analytical thinking, and the ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.
Job Responsibilities
- Procurement Process Management: Timely facilitation of end-to-end procurement processes including requisition, sourcing, evaluation, purchase order issuance, and receipt of goods and services.
- Vendor Management: Identify, evaluate, and select reliable suppliers based on cost, quality, reliability, and delivery speed. Negotiate contracts and agreements with suppliers to secure favorable terms. This includes vendor creation, material master management, service master management, and periodic supplier review meetings.
- Rentals Management: Responsible for contract creation, rental service master management, and rental purchase order creation.
- Import and Exports Management: Ensure tax classification of goods and liaise with clearing agents for goods, coordinating the process end-to-end. Manage the shipping process to ensure all compliant processes are adhered to. Handle Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) and follow up to ensure timely receipt of repaired items.
- Stores and Warehouse Management: Management of goods receipt (GI/IR) process, management of goods issuance process, and management of the stock take process.
- Project Management: Manage Project Bill of Materials, process purchase orders, process service entry sheets (SES), handle technical completion of orders (TECO), manage Goods Movement (GMPS), process project budgets, and oversee the customer deployment process, including approval of customer deployment requests based on a job P&L threshold and accounting for material usage.
- Reporting: Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad hoc reports as and when required.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferably in Business, Supply Chain, Inventory Management, Procurement, or an equivalent field.
- Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) qualification or other qualification in Stores/inventory management will be an added advantage.
- At least 4 years’ experience in procurement or supply chain role in a busy environment. Experience working in the Telecommunication industry will be a distinct advantage.
- Hands-on experience working with a stores/inventory management software/ERP. Those with SAP experience have added advantage.
