Purchasing Officer Job at Broadway Cafeteria

Broadway Cafeteria is currently recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Position: Purchasing Officer

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Purchasers, also known as purchasing agents, purchase tools, supplies, equipment, and/or parts from various vendors and suppliers.
• Purchasers work independently in a highly collaborative environment that requires frequent communication and may travel to the warehouse and storage areas within the company to complete their usual job tasks. 

Responsibilities

• Write Purchase Orders: Purchasers purchase items from vendors and suppliers, filling out all necessary purchase orders. 
• Ensure Delivery: Purchasers ensure that purchased orders are delivered by coordinating with warehouse and transport staff. 
• Negotiate: Purchasers negotiate new contracts with existing and new vendors and suppliers.
• Distribute Supplies to the Cafe and Production house. 
• Must Update Expense sheet regularly 
• Monthly price comparison to ensure the company gets the best deals. 
• Shop: Purchasers shop for the best available deals on needed items by looking up prices from multiple vendors and suppliers to find the highest-quality items for the lowest price.
• Process Orders: Purchasers process purchase orders, updating digital files as needed to record purchases made, when money has been received, and all other relevant information.
• Monitor Inventory: Purchasers monitor and maintain inventory levels, ordering new items as needed to keep the inventory fully stocked and supplied. 
• Manage Relationships: Purchasers locate new vendors and establish working relationships with them. They also maintain existing vendor and supplier relationships. 

Purchaser Skills and Qualifications 

• Purchasers collaborate with other members of the supply chain, ensuring that purchases arrive in a timely fashion precisely as ordered to keep inventories well-stocked. 
• 3 years of work experience.

Skill Requirements:

• Leadership - to work closely with warehouse staff and other staff members within the company, ensuring they are managing purchases properly on their end of the supply chain
• Communication - purchasers work in a collaborative environment that requires coordination with other departments and negotiation with vendors 
• Computer skills - to keep digital files updated and manage purchase orders 
• Multi-tasking - to manage multiple duties and responsibilities at once 
• Organization - to maintain purchase order paperwork and digital files, monitor inventory systems, and ensure deliveries 
• Detail-oriented - to find the best rates for purchased items and maintain inventory levels.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: funmi@cafeterianigeria.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.