Procurement Officer at Club House Lagos

Vitality Leisure Group is a leading provider of premium sporting and leisure facilities in Africa. Vitality designs, builds and operates restaurants, bars, clubhouses, mini golf courses, courts, pitches and gyms for commercial residential and hospitality locations. Vitality currently operates locations in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria with locations in Kigali, Rwanda and Dubai, UAE coming on stream soon.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Procurement Officer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• As a Procurement/Purchasing Officer, You should work with suppliers to negotiate contracts for the purchase of required goods and keep accurate records of transaction trends.
• Also to assist the Finance and Operational Departments in the monitoring, reporting and controlling of Cost of Sales in the hotel, including audit and control, financial analysis and reporting, budgeting, forecasting etc.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Implement sound purchasing policies, systems and procedures in accordance with Hotel standards.
• Monitor vendors for quality, service and price through standard purchasing specifications.
• Obtain competitive quotations for hotel requirements and ensure that the best product is sourced and purchased.
• Calls for quotations for any items costing more than a certain amount (As per company policy) and inquire into prices from various suppliers.
• A minimum of three independent genuine quotations must be obtained.
• Establish contracts to ensure reduced pricing for all operating areas of the hotel.
• Ensures & verifies that quotations are regularly updated and supplier’s new current price lists are maintained.
• Ensure the efficient operation of the purchasing department all aspects.
• Receives market list from the Executive Chef, F&B Supervisor and collate together with inventory officer on a daily basis and arrange for delivery of those items.
• Ensures that all orders receiving dates are updated by the buyers according to the supplier’s promised delivery dates.
• Ensures that all authorized or approved purchase orders are sent to their respective suppliers/vendors for delivery purposes on a daily basis.
• Research and identify new products and services for the hotel in the market.
• Obtains wrote approval for established Minimum / Maximum stock levels by thefinancial controllerand general manager.
• Checks, explain if needed and approves delivered items discrepancy report issued by cost control regarding price and quantity order variances.
• Approves all additional requests for new storeroom items, checking correct item description, unit, packing, category and establishing Min/Max estimated stock levels.
• Verify the ‘pending orders’ report on a daily basis, and all pending orders are checked and verified regularly.
• On a daily basis prepare the list of to-be-cancelled orders and sent to accounts for deletion, with appropriate reasons.
• Issues regularly slow moving item lists.
• Identifies items for standing orders utilising vendor’s logistics for regular deliveries to the hotel based on approved highly consumed items.
• Ensures validity of items available, force issue obsolete items and follows up on action taken for disposal.
• Verifies that all documentation and proper quotations are maintained and filed according to Policy and Procedure requirements.
• Approves all storeroom re-order requests, verifying quantities within the established Min/Max stock levels.
• Responsible for maintaining logical storeroom inventory levels operationally needed.
• Spot checks storeroom requests if properly maintained, verifies quantity requested and issued, proper items received by signatories & ID availability.
• Spot-checks entered system quotations, period validity quotes locked by, etc.
• Ensures that the suppliers follow the rules relating to the hygiene of goods delivered.
• Responsible for all administrative functions of the Materials Department, staffing, training and execution of other related duties.
• Responsible for all purchasing functions, quotations, quality and availability.
• Responsible for physical control of all store items until issued, fully documented under strict control procedures (key control, timing schedule, authorised issue requests).
• Keeps all records in a way that they can be checked at any time for information or audit purposes.
• Liaison with the Purchasing Coordinator, Receiving Agent, Stores Supervisor andCost Controller
• Maintains all documents, files and listings up-to-date and performs his duties in the most efficient manner.
• Willing to work a flexible schedule in order to accomplish all major responsibilities and tasks.

Requirements
Education:

• Graduate or Diploma in Business Studies or MBA or Purchasing and Supply. With good knowledge of MS office suite and Materials management software (MMS)

Prerequisite:

• Strong negotiating and closing skills are required, along with a demonstrated ability to develop negotiation strategies for complex activities. Ability to evaluate legal and business risks and ramifications of proposed contractual terms. Consistently offer professional, engaging and friendly service

Experience:

• Previous Minimum of 2 years of experience as Procurement/Purchase Officer 2 years with expertise in the Hotel and Catering industry.

Salary
N100,000 – N120,000 / month.

Application Closing Date
30th November, 2024.

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