Purchasing Officer at CWAY Group

CWAY Group is a multinational conglomerate, headquartered in Lagos state Nigeria. The sectorial investments is in emerging diverse businesses including Food and Beverages, Drinking Water, Snacks, Confectionery, Packaging Solutions and Animal Husbandry.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Purchasing Officer

Location: Isolo, Lagos

Job Overview

• Responsible for ensuring that Purchase Orders are raised and approved, goods and services are received and orders are receipted in a complete, accurate and timely manner.
• The Purchasing Officer is expected to liaise with suppliers across the business to align the purchasing process with sales objectives and overall business strategy.

Role Responsibilities

• Raise Purchase Orders in line with business rules
• Ensure Purchase Orders are approved in line with business rules
• Email the Purchase Order to the supplier (where the system does not support automatic emailing of the Purchase Order)
• Receipt Purchase Order based on an approved goods receipt note/delivery docket
• Request credit notes from suppliers and send them to Accounts Payable for processing
• Establish sound relationships with suppliers, ensure lead times are met and expedite outstanding orders
• Drive continuous improvement across the Purchasing process.

Qualifications / Experience required

• Bachelor's Degree preferably Business Administration, Accountancy or Finance.
•  2- 3 years experience in a Purchasing role.

Skills / Attributes required:

• Strong understanding of Purchasing principles and processes
• Experience with Purchasing systems (preferred)
• Analytical and have the ability to solve purchasing and inventory-related problems
• Strong data entry skills
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
• Proactive, highly motivated and flexible
• Highly organized
• Experienced with MS Office including Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.