- Technical Sourcing: Identify OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) and high-quality alternative suppliers for specialized industrial machinery spares.
- Inventory Strategy: Implement Critical Spares mapping to ensure zero production downtime while minimizing dead stock in the warehouse.
- Vendor Management: Build a robust database of reliable local fabricators and international technical suppliers.
- Cost Engineering: Negotiate Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and volume discounts for high-frequency items like bearings belts and lubricants.
- Technical Collaboration: Work closely with the Maintenance/Engineering Manager to verify technical specifications and interpret parts manuals/schematics.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure all incoming spares meet the rigid technical standards required to maintain heavy industrial equipment.
- Education: in Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering or Supply Chain Management.
- Experience: 5 years in procurement/stores management specifically focused on technical spares or MRO in a manufacturing or heavy-duty automotive environment.
- Technical Literacy: Ability to read technical drawings and distinguish between specific industrial components (e.g. PLC modules pneumatic valves hydraulic seals).
- Analytical Skills: Proficiency in ERP inventory modules (Microsoft Dynamics) and advanced Excel for usage trend analysis.
- Network: Pre-existing relationships with major technical hardware hubs (e.g. Apapa/Ikeja industrial markets) and international freight forwarders.
Required Experience:
Manager
Technical Sourcing: Identify OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) and high-quality alternative suppliers for specialized industrial machinery spares.Inventory Strategy: Implement Critical Spares mapping to ensure zero production downtime while minimizing dead stock in the warehouse.Vendor Managemen...
- Technical Sourcing: Identify OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) and high-quality alternative suppliers for specialized industrial machinery spares.
- Inventory Strategy: Implement Critical Spares mapping to ensure zero production downtime while minimizing dead stock in the warehouse.
- Vendor Management: Build a robust database of reliable local fabricators and international technical suppliers.
- Cost Engineering: Negotiate Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and volume discounts for high-frequency items like bearings belts and lubricants.
- Technical Collaboration: Work closely with the Maintenance/Engineering Manager to verify technical specifications and interpret parts manuals/schematics.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure all incoming spares meet the rigid technical standards required to maintain heavy industrial equipment.
- Education: in Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering or Supply Chain Management.
- Experience: 5 years in procurement/stores management specifically focused on technical spares or MRO in a manufacturing or heavy-duty automotive environment.
- Technical Literacy: Ability to read technical drawings and distinguish between specific industrial components (e.g. PLC modules pneumatic valves hydraulic seals).
- Analytical Skills: Proficiency in ERP inventory modules (Microsoft Dynamics) and advanced Excel for usage trend analysis.
- Network: Pre-existing relationships with major technical hardware hubs (e.g. Apapa/Ikeja industrial markets) and international freight forwarders.
Required Experience:
Manager
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