Procurement Manager

Your key responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain a weekly and monthly procurement plan aligned to sales targets, stock levels, warehouse capacity, and working capital.
• Anticipate demand for fast-moving products based on sales data — never ordering reactively after a stockout has already occurred.
• Own all supplier relationships — negotiating pricing, credit terms, delivery timelines, volume rebates, promotional support, and the elimination of forced bundle purchasing.
• Monitor supplier performance monthly: on-time delivery, order accuracy, product quality, and responsiveness.
• Implement and enforce FIFO and FEFO disciplines, particularly for near-expiry and beverage products.
• Drive down dead stock — co-ordinating with the Sales team on movement strategies for slow-moving products.
• Produce a monthly procurement cost analysis for the CFO and present weekly stock and procurement updates at the senior team meeting.

What You Will Bring

Essential:

• Minimum three (3) to five (5) years of procurement, purchasing, or supply chain management experience in an FMCG, distribution, retail, or manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience conducting commercial negotiations with suppliers — pricing, credit terms, volume rebates, and contract terms. Not just placing orders.
• Strong understanding of inventory management, stock control, FIFO/FEFO, and procurement cost structures.
• Comfortable working with data — you make purchasing decisions from numbers, not from instinct.
• Ghanaian market experience — you understand FMCG supplier dynamics, trade channel pressures, and the commercial realities of procurement in Ghana.
• Strong communication and cross-functional working skills — you collaborate as effectively with the warehouse team as with the CFO.

Advantageous:

• Experience using an ERP system for procurement — Odoo, SAP, or equivalent.
• Knowledge of supplier contract management and formal procurement agreement documentation.
• CIPS (Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply) qualification or equivalent.
• Experience managing promotional procurement, supplier-funded activations, or volume rebate arrangements.
• Exposure to multi-site or national procurement operations.

Personal qualities we are looking for:

• Commercially sharp — you understand that procurement is a revenue function, not an administrative one.
• A negotiator — you can sit across from a supplier’s sales representative and hold your ground.
• Data-driven — you arrive at every meeting with numbers, not impressions.
• Proactive — you prevent stockouts before they happen, not after.
• A builder — you design systems that work when you are not in the room.

Location: Haatso, Accra, Ghana

Salary: Attractive