Business Development Manager- Bid/Procurement at Proten

About the role

• Primary responsibility for business proposals / tender preparation activities; preparation of quotations, tenders, and other business proposals.
• Responsibility for overseeing the endtoend procurement process, searching for reliable suppliers, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring compliance with policies and regulations for efficiency and costeffectiveness.
• Provide support for all company projects driven by the department, including business prospecting and postaward execution activities
• Execution of job responsibilities at all times working in a professional and practical manner to ensure that results and change are delivered sustainably.

Job Description

• Secure and acknowledge bidding documents materializing from all market development
• activities / identified sources and company contact points, emails, and procurement portals
• Demonstrate understanding of procurement metrics and participate in corrective measures.Carry out the preparation of quotations, business tenders, proposals and prequalification packages, employing strategic and wellcoordinated responses, including technical and commercial offers.
• Process clarification queries with customers as may be necessary concerning received inquiries for a quotation.
• Assist with clients’ engagements as may be necessary, preparatory for business proposals, including inspection visits and clarification meetings.
• Review customer purchase orders and supporting documents to ensure alignment with offer, for pricing, discounts, product specifications, quantities, delivery lead time, payment terms, and other offer conditions, before acceptance.
• Prepare sales orders to the production department on available ERP or alternative manual process
• Focused liaison with the Production department on all orders, ensuring; issued orders are progressing without a hitch; that purchase requisitions relating to issued orders are given expedient attention by both production and procurement departments
• Provide and maintain a regularly updated Procurement Order Tracking Register which provides key details of all orders from order issue to delivery, for reference and statistical purposes.
• Maintain a departmental cost and revenue profile, ensuring all costs related to particular
• transactions are monitored, and recorded with details of the same against the subject revenue, intending to generate a departmental project accounting report.
• Provide appropriate processing of SubPurchase Orders for materials to Suppliers by
• providing necessary support as and when needed.
• Transmit subpurchase orders to vendors and follow up on same, to ensure timeliness and   accuracy of deliveries
• Ensure guaranteed traceability of all activities and transactions through proper
• documentation of same.
• Conduct postbid analysis and debrief sessions to identify areas of improvement and
• implement lessons learned for future bids.

Qualifications

•  Bachelor s Degree in Business administration or any related field
• 5 years and above experience in an OIL AND GAS SECTOR 
• Demonstrated ability in businesstobusiness (B2B) sales experience in ...
• Impeccable verbal and written communication skills
• Familiarity with project management methodologies
• Familiarity with the industry including equipment, logistics, and supply chain management
• Problemsolving skills to propose mutually beneficial solutions
• Proficiency with word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software
• Ability and willingness to travel for meetings with prospective and existing clients