Biomass Sourcing Coordinator at Lafarge Africa Plc

Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of the LafargeHolcim Group – the biggest building and concrete solutions company in the world. It is a publicly quoted company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and serves Nigeria with a wide range of building and construction solutions designed to meet housing and construction needs from small projects like individual home buildings to major construction and infrastructure projects.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Biomass Sourcing Coordinator

Requisition ID:  14406
Location: Ewekoro, Ogun
Job type: Full-time

About the Role

• The Biomass Coordinator serves as the primary point of contact for customers, managing communication regarding biomass waste, orders, and deliveries.
• They are responsible for achieving targeted biomass sourcing volumes in designated regions or customer segments. In collaboration with the Sales Administrator, the Coordinator executes sales and marketing activities to ensure customer satisfaction.

What You'll Be Doing
Biomass Coordinator is responsible for the customer/vendor facing activities and to provide rest of the organization with market information.

• Quality, Health & Safety and Environment
  • Reinforce the Quality, Health & Safety and Environmental Procedures
  • Organize periodic audit to control the application of the QHSE process.
• Creation of prospects/customers/vendors and contacts
• Plan and perform visits to customers and vendor as necessary
• Search, identify new market and materials opportunities and triggering the AFR Material
• validation flow where necessary
• Liaise with Sales Administrator to provide Master Data management (Customers, Vendor, Materials)
• Assist in the preparation of commercial offer to Customers/Vendors to be reviewed and discussed with the Geocycle Commercial Manager
• Liaise with logistics department to ensure timely deliveries for customer’s satisfaction with Geocycle services.
• Participate in preparing budget proposals for Geocycle in the country
• Register and follow up opportunities and action plans
• Create customer/vendor offers and initiate price negotiation
• Preparation of the content of the physical AFR Contracts
• Follow up customer/vendor complaints
• Introduce volumes in Planning Tool based on what is obtainable from the market
• Prepare sales reports as a base for weekly transportation planning.

Who you'll be working with 
List of direct reports:

• Biomass Sourcing Manager

Key interfaces, stakeholders and relationships:
Internal:

• Geocycle Commercial Manager
• Plant Manager / Plant AF/ARM Champion
• Communication Managers, Lobbying, Strategy,
• Business Shared Service - Finance/Accounting
• Geocycle Sales Administrator
• Geocycle Logistics/Operation Coordinators .

External:

• Partner companies
• Waste producer
• Administration
• Association
• Waste producers
• Waste collection/disposal companies

Requirements
What we are looking for:

• Degree in Agriculture/ Business Management/ Social sciences with sales development and proven experience
• > 3 years of experience
• Social and negotiation skills with the customers or vendors
• Training in the process and steps in the CRM tool - Salesforce, for the following processes:
  • Visit management, opportunity management, action plans, and AFR Request
• Basic knowledge in MEA BM Business Partner Master Data Model and training in creation/modification of Customers/Prospects & AFR request in Salesforce.
• Training in SAP (AFR Process steps)
• Excellent organizational and multitasking skills

Mobility Requirements: 

• The job will involve travel across various Biomass waste sourcing points in Nigeria.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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