NLNG Vacancies!!!

CATEGORY MANAGEMENT OFFICER (REF- CPM/OO4) The Contracts, Procurement and Materials (CPM) Department of NLNG requires a Category Management Officer to work on Bonny Island The Job This is a 3rd Party Contract Staff Position Purpose · To align Contractor/Supplier capabilities and performance information with their areas of specialization. · To assist in implementing sound product category strategies that will promote competitive cost, quality delivery e.t.c. · To achieve complexity reduction and revenue-loss mitigation on buying information due to wrong specification, poor quality of Vendors’ performances vis-à-vis wrong deliveries. Responsibilities: The successful candidate would amongst others: § Provides accurate spend data for purpose of determining appropriate procurement strategy for each product category. § Provides Supplier spend & performance information for optimizing suppliers’ capabilities in preferred areas. § Identify supplier capabilities in each category and place in appropriate main and sub-product groups as applicable. § To standardize and update product/work categories changes in line with the requirements of the Vendor Management System. § To enhance cross-functional accessibility of products/work category information for appropriate vendor selection. § To create appropriate links to approved product category/vendors of associate companies, (e.g Shell); leveraging networks of suppliers and contractors. § To enhance benchmarking of suppliers in specialized categories for achieving competitive cost, quality, delivery and overall value from suppliers and contactors. § Apply the Cost / Risk Complexity Matrix to analyze Suppliers / Contractors into supply grades for determining appropriate sourcing strategies in the vendor selection process. § Explore all available plant equipment and spares and liaise with the Plant Engineers to define appropriate product categories for mapping suppliers accordingly, using the procurement targeting concept. § Extract ‘Scope of Business’ information from pre-qualification reports and upload into the Vendor Management System (VMS) with all relevant sourcing details. § Serve as focal person for all upload, download and maintenance update of the Vendor Management System (VMS) module in PACER § Download, analyze, and manage data from the NLNG Suppliers/Contractor registration web portal; sort, collate and categorize accordingly; carry out frequent maintenance update and alignment with technical specifications of spares in the Vendor Management System. Qualifications and experience required: § Minimum of 2nd Class Lower in B.Sc. Mechanical or Plant Engineering or Statistics with 3-4 years post graduation experience. § Must have knowledge of the procurement and contracting processes, and a working knowledge of plant materials and product groups in the oil and gas industry or a typical manufacturing company. § Not more than 35 years of Age. Please address application quoting Ref no at the back of the application envelope to: Head, Employee Services Nigeria LNG Limited Plant Site Bonny Island Closing Date: August 24, 2007