🌟 Committed Cycles & Procurement Manager at Danone Nigeria, dedicated to optimizing end-to-end procurement processes and delivering exceptional value to our business.🔍 Adept at strategically managing procurement spend, my goal is to ensure efficiency and cost-effectiveness while enhancing supply chain resilience.📈 Focused on enabling Danone Nigeria's success, I partner with cross-functional teams to support top-line growth through efficient execution of volumes and numbers.💡 With a forward-thinking approach, I believe that my contributions will positively impact not only the Nigerian business unit but also extend benefits to the broader West Africa business unit.🚀 Join me on this journey as we elevate procurement practices and drive sustainable growth for Danone in Nigeria and beyond. #ProcurementExcellence #SupplyChainTransformation #BusinessGrowth

Responsible for all Procurement operations and strategies across all the four companies within the group.

Procurement Responsibilities and Achievements● Liaising with suppliers and contractors and all relevant internal departments requiring goods and services, forecasting levels of demand for services and products to meet the business needs and keeping a constant check on stock levels● Conducted research to ascertain the best products and suppliers in terms of best value, delivery schedules and quality● Identified good potential suppliers, building and maintaining good relationships with them● Developed the organisation’s purchasing strategy and communicating this to all relevant managers and teams● Established and designed tender documents for departmental use. ● Prepared and communicated the Procurement Policy and SOP to the management for adoption.● Reviewed the Payment Terms from "Payment in advance" to "Credit terms".● Recruited and trained new "green" staff on Procurement operations and practices- Many of whom have progressed into their professional courses and programs.● Vendor Development - Local & International● Commercial Negotiations – knowledge of contracts, bid evaluation, Currency fluctuations etc.● Coordination with Technical, manufacturing in Standardisation● Annual Budgets & General Administration

I implemented a procurement acceleration initiative which led to faster processing of PR to PO.Enabled the use of SAP ERP to automatically generate the monthly Vendor Evaluation ReportsDevelopment of new recruits in the Procurement organisation who have taken up greater roles in other multinationals.Better stakeholder satisfaction survey during the periodProvided support to the Procurement team in other markets in West Africa on operational efficiency.

I led the team that started up of DETTOL liquid manufacturing and packaging in Nigeria.

One of the pioneer members of the brewery providing mechanical support on the bottling lines and relieving operators.