Purchasing Manager Job at InterContinental Hotel Group

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Job Title: Purchasing Manager

Job Number: LAG000035

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Organisation: InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG Nigeria)

What is your passion? Whether you're into tennis, swimming or karaoke, at IHG we're interested in YOU!

As the Purchasing Manager, you will coordinate all the Purchasing activities, ensuring that the hotel benefits from the best available prices from the market without compromisingthe quality standards. You will drive the agreed cost savings monthly and annually through the procurement of goods and services by leveraging IHG's purchasing power with suppliers. Also you will ensure that procurement activities are aligned with brand guidelines and support sustainability initiatives and simplify the purchasing process for Hotel operational departments.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Translate operating forecasts into material requirements plans and thereby determine standard stock and re-order levels to ensure that the hotel is fully supported with all the material inputs.
• Identify and develop reliable sources of supply through supplier appraisal and evaluation systemas per the IHG purchasing standards and ethics..
• Responsible for hotel Importation in liaison with the Accounts department.
• Supervision of all the duties in Purchasing department.
• Establish and maintain effective employee relations.
• Provide documented and accurate monthly Purchasing reports to the Financial Controller, General Manager showing the activity status and Performance targets.

In return we'll give you a generous financial and benefits package including duty meals, hotel discounts worldwide and the chance to work with a great team of people. Most importantly, we'll give you the room to be yourself.

So what's your passion? Please get in touch and tell us how you could bring your individual skills to IHG.

Qualifications:

• A degree in Supply Chain Management is preferred or its equivalent
• Typically 5- 8 years experience in Purchase management with at least 3years in Finance leadership positions in hotels of international brand
• Good understanding of the Nigerian / African business and operation environments and markets
• Local or expat
• Service minded and ability to involve and support operations
• Business savvy and good people skills
• Experience in emerging markets / similar hard locations
• Visionary & strategic thinker and ability to convert this to action

Job: Purchasing

InterContinental Lagos will open in 2013 and will be located on Victoria Island, in the centre of Lagos home to the majority of foreign embassies and multinational companies, making it the perfect residence for affluent business and diplomatic travelers. Built on an elevated terrain overlooking Lagos's port and the city below, the 19 storey hotel will offer uninterrupted, spectacular views of Lagos Skyline.

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