Procurement Manager - InterContinental Luanda, Angola

Job description

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About us

Do you see yourself as a Purchasing Manager? What's your passion? Whether you're into tennis, billiards or karaoke, at InterContinental Hotels Group we're interested in who you are. At IHG we apply the same amount of care and passion to our jobs as we do to our hobbies - people who put their guests at the heart of everything they do. And we're looking for more people like yourself to join our friendly and professional team.   

Imagine working for a company that gives you Room to be yourself. Our commitment to our people is to deliver room to have a great start, to learn and grow, to perform, to be recognized and rewarded, to be involved and to take the initiative and lead. At the moment we're looking for a Purchasing Manager to join our unique, grand and extraordinary pre-opening team at InterContinental Luanda Miramar.

 

Your day to day

As a Procurement Manager you will choose suppliers and the merchandise or services needed to meet hotel needs. You will use their expertise and negotiation skills to meet with vendors, work out contract terms and their decisions have a major impact on the company's operations. If you enjoy information analysis, decision-making and working with people both inside and outside an organization, procurement management could be for you.

Duties and Responsibilities: -

Translates operating forecasts into material requirements plans and thereby determines standard stock and re-order levels with Department Heads and Management

Participates in negotiations for service contracts

Identifies and develops reliable sources of supply

Identifies and organizes adequate storage for all perpetual inventory items and implements corporate policy, products and initiatives in order to maximize cost effectiveness

Establishes adequate record keeping and issuance procedures

Protects inventories from waste, spoilage and theft

Keeps abreast of the marketplace as to innovation and value

Processes purchase requests from departments

Obtains competitive quotations and bids

Ensure physical stock take is conducted as scheduled

Posts orders to inventory module and produces purchase order for receiver to match against goods received

Place approved orders

Establishes standard purchasing specifications

Ensures products and resources are assigned to the appropriate department and billed accordingly

Supervises the hotels print shop to ensure timely and economical production of printed material

Ensures that market surveys are completed in coordination with the Executive Chef, Director of F&B and Director of Finance & Business Support

Works with Superior on manpower planning and management needs

 

What we need from you

Ideally you will have:

• Bachelor degree in supply chain management/ logistics or business administration preferably with a certification in CIPS.

• Must speak fluent English and Portuguese

• Minimum 3 years of experience preferably in a mid to large size 5 star hotel.

• Experience with managing a diverse team of colleagues

• High level of energy and drive to achieve operational and business goals

• Positivity and flexibility to work in small or large teams towards the success of own division as well as the overall hotel

• Ability to initiate and follow through new projects

• A proven track record of creativity and innovation; out of the box thinking

• You will also have an excellent ability to manage employee productivity, attention to detail

• Strong interpersonal skills to develop and foster beneficial relationships

• High level of common sense and high skill of problem solving and decision making

• Pro-active approach, and the ability to meet deadlines

 

What we offer

In return we will offer competitive pay and benefits, and a chance to work with a great team of talented people. Most importantly, we'll give you Room to be yourself.

 

We genuinely care about people and we show this through living out our promise of True Hospitality each and every day. It’s what connects every colleague in all IHG hotels.

 

Each IHG® hotel brand delivers True Hospitality in their own way, and at the heart of it all are specific, core service skills.

• True Attitude: being caring, wanting to make a positive difference, and building genuine connections with guests

• True Confidence: having the knowledge and skills to perform your role, and giving guests the confidence that they can trust you, to help and support them during their stay

• True Listening: focusing on what your guest is saying, picking up on body language that is often overlooked, and understanding what the guest wants and needs

• True Responsiveness: is about providing guests with what they need, and doing so in a timely and caring manner

 

So what's your passion? Please apply on-line and tell us how you can bring your individual skills to IHG.   To find out more about us or any other jobs with IHG please look at  www.careers.ihg.com

 

We are an equal opportunity employer.