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Procurement Head- NPI

Repi Soap & Detergent PLC

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Business

Supply Chain & Purchasing Management

Addis Ababa

7 years

1 Position

2025-08-29

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2025-09-06

Required Skills

supply chain management

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Fields of study

Accounting

Business Management

Transportation

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Purchase & supply management

Full Time

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Job Description

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Schedule, Control & Monitor Import Category purchases ensuring lowest TCO while managing desired quality, inbound freight optimization and timing, ensuring minimum inventory levels and cash flow management with due regard to economic pressures & FX availability. 

  • In conjunction and coordination with the concerned parties in the supply chain department, assure getting the right kind of PI’s from foreign suppliers and submit to banks for possible forex allocation. 

  • Schedule, Control & Monitor domestically sourced category purchases ensuring lowest TCO while managing desired quality, inbound freight optimization while selecting, developing and promoting local suppliers, developing enduring relationships ensuring JIT management controls. 

  • Achieves financial objectives by participating in preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions. 

  • Completes Procurement operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results. 

  • Formulate budget. 

  • Participate and contribute, to product development activities including TCO of formulation, packaging and efficacy to the new product development committee. 

  • Supports the product development & technology initiatives for the category. 

  • Ensure all activities related to the function comply with relevant Acts, legal demands and ethical standards.

  • Participate in the company’s management team meetings, strategy, Health & Safety program, insurance/benefits committees and others as required. 

  • Meet targets articulated in supply chain plans, product development briefs in terms of product quality, timeliness and cost. 

  • Resolve quires which can come from 3rd party stack holders. 

  • Other duties and activities as reasonably directed by the SCM or other senior executives of the company. 

  • Be responsible and accountable for sourcing and supplying specific Category. 

  • Closely interact and support Technical & Sales and Marketing management teams.   

  • Represent the company as the ‘Procurement Office Representative’ of Repi Wilmar on Category Suppliers/Vendors.

  • Manage Planning, sourcing and appointing of all inputs to the company which Repi acquires for its manufacturing and other needs; 

  • Make sure that PO is issued or contractual service agreement is made with selected suppliers; 

  • Assure on time settlement of Documents with Finance; 

  • Give priority on delivery, finalize the delivery within the given time frame; 

  • Manage Procurement cost. 

  • Maintain minimum procurement operation. 

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Assure maximum inventor turnover. 

  • Devise innovative and accepted ways to ensure minimum time that floated bids stay in the procurement cycle. 

  • Set a standard and follow-up efficiency towards minimum response time to demand request. 

  • Assure minimum errors during vendor selection and sourcing. 

  • Maintain minimum possible price vis-a -vis quality of items or service. 

  • Properly follow a systemic document management procedure by filing closed purchases orders based on requester PR and delivery source docs and transferred to finance for archiving. 

  • Maintain records to the various procurement related records of the items and services sourced and procured. 

  • Keep clean document of submitted PI’s and Capture all the necessary data on soft and hard copy about the particular request; 

  • Collect forex related bank advices and other financial documents to finance; 

  • Strictly understand and follow LC terms and inform if change/Action is needed including on matters like LC or date of shipment extensions; 

  • Prepare the necessary follow-up and bank process documentation related to forex allocation, extensions and amendments to be endorsed by the concerned whenever the need arises; 

  • Be a custodian of import files; 

  • Track import delivery status and notify as deem as necessary developments, changes and faults on time; 

  • Report weekly delivered imported items to SC manager with enough detail; 

  • Prepare payment requests for import related activities and keep records; 

  • Updating GIT’s on import purchases; 

  • Keep landing cost updated after delivery of the goods; 

  • Maintain up-to-dated and reconciled records of procured Materials; 

  • Sign documents of tender records and procurement process documents; 

  • Report discrepancies and propose corrective actions to SC Manager; 

  • Follow strictly companies Procurement policy; 

  • Assure at all times integrity by following companies Ethics Policy; 

  • Adhere with company HR policy in all aspect;   

Job Requirements

         Qualification

  • A Minimum of BA Degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, Transport Management, Business Management, Accounting or any other related field of study.

  • With  a minimum of seven (7) years relevant experience as out of which three (3) years as Senior Procurement Officer/Procurement/Category Specialist or equivalent capacity preferably in FMCG industry.   

    Competencies:

  • Results driven

  • Interpersonal and Organization skill

  • Fluency in English language.

  • Professional Excellence

  • Analytical Skill and Attention to Detail

How to Apply

Apply through THIS LINK:  Procurement Head- NPI / Fill this form /  THIS LINK

Fields Of Study

Accounting

Business Management

Transportation

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Purchase & supply management

Skills Required

supply chain management

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