Experienced Purchasing Manager with hotel experience needed

Experienced Purchasing Manager with Hotel Experience is needed
A reputable hotel in the heart of Lagos, is seeking to recruit a purchasing manager with hotel experience, who is to plan, execute and finalize purchasing and procurement strategies.

The purchasing manager is a professional who is mainly an expert in material management and price negotiations. The main duty in purchasing manager job description is to buy goods and products for the company. His aim is to buy quality products at the best possible price for saving the administrative costs of the facility of employment.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Monitor and analyze trends in hotel spending and inventory control in order to make recommendations for future and to identify areas for possible savings
• Develop, establish, implement, and enforce supplier and outsourcer guidelines.
• Analyze market trends and make conditions for present and future pricing and availability.
• Interview, identify and qualify potential new vendors or suppliers in order to secure more cost effective sources of products and services.
• Has to keep a track of the quality of products and services, brands, and the ongoing price of those goods. This helps in determining the best source for acquiring goods for his employer. He has to communicate with the product suppliers to carry out the purchase. He has to keep a detailed record of the inventory of goods stored.
• With permission from the management, he may even generate and incorporate policies and procedures pertaining to procurement and cost control.
• Has to record the goods and services offered, ordered, and obtained. If he comes to know that there is a surplus stock accumulated in the company inventory, he needs to take the necessary steps to dispose it off without affecting the cost. These were just a few main points of the purchasing manager job description.
REQUIREMENTS
The purchasing manager should have good management skills, market researching tactics, negotiation skills, communication skills, and marketing capabilities. He also needs to be good in calculations, product management, manpower handling, etc. Financial management skills are essential to become a purchasing manager. If you are thinking of a career as a purchasing manager, it is better to have a degree in marketing or business management. Profitable decision making is a very important requirement that is needed in the purchasing management field.
QUALIFICATION
• Minimum of first degree in related discipline
• Minimum of four years experience of which two years as a purchasing manager in a five star hotel
REMUNERATION: Negotiable
Only candidates with the above requirements should send an up-to –date detailed resume using PURM-1005 as subject of mail to:
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