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JOSEPH WAWERU NGURA

Nairobi,Thika

Summary

Am a highly motivated and results driven supply chain executive with over 10+ year experience, who is committed to identifying and implementing continuous process improvements in the business. I have rich experience in procurement, material planning, production planning, logistics (import and export) and people development in globally recognized FMCG companies. I have a consistent and proven track record of successfully employing best business practices that improve efficiency, reduce operating costs, whilst increasing performance efficiency and effectiveness, while meeting tight time deadlines and to deliver projects within budget. Key Professional Skills and Competencies: Expert knowledge of supply chain management Budget: Preparation, monitoring and controlling. Strong negotiating skills Competent in change and process management Strong business and commercial acumen Competent in procurement, logistics, customer service and people management

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Head

Henkel Kenya Ltd
01.2019 - Current
  • Henkel is a global Manufacturing company that manufactures Industrial Adhesives and is a leader in fast moving consumer goods within the Laundry Home Care and Cosmetics business
  • Key brands of Henkel are Loctite, Conta, Tangit, Persil, Ata, Fa Products, Theramed, and the Gliss hair care range
  • I take care of the supply chain organisation in country and reporting direct to the Regional Supply Chain Director
  • I directly manage and supervise a team of 5FTE’s within the local function working in different capacities
  • Key Achievements:
  • As a team leader, I negotiated down the cost of production of Persil by 160Euros Per MT enabling business achieve profitability targets
  • As the lead role, we successfully negotiated and benchmarked the prices of solvents in Sub-Sahara Africa which lead to annual savings of 100K Euros
  • As the lead role in Sub-Sahara Africa for the Global Sea Freight Project, we successfully managed to implement the project which produced savings of 436K Euros for the whole of Middle East & Africa
  • As part of the MEA team, we successfully negotiated the prices of Hotels which produced Savings of 63K Euros
  • I successfully managed to increase the payable days of suppliers from 54days to 65days through negotiation and persuasion
  • This was able to improve on the Cash Networking Capital of the business
  • Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Rocurement:
  • Managing a range of preferred suppliers, developing positive supplier relationships aligned to business
  • Developing sourcing strategies and innovation in delivering large complex international projects and play the lead role in raw material, packaging material procurement and other indirect services, which include supplier selection, price benchmarking and price negotiation for production and associated deployment works
  • Lead role in supplier relationship management including contract negotiation, monitoring supplier performance, volume leverage and the total cost management objectives and ensure adherence to contractual commitments
  • Conducting studies of material costs and supplier services and recommend changes in purchasing procedures to improve service and/or reduce cost
  • Identify cost reductions, efficiency opportunities and contribute to the achievement of efficiency targets including the development of KPI’s to track improvements of budget vs
  • Actual spend
  • Ogistics:
  • Setting up and management of third party logistics contract companies and managing budgets to ensure that the 3rd Party Logistics are operating within cost, as well as pro-actively seek methods to improve operational efficiencies and performance in line with monitoring and reporting on KPIs
  • Responsible for all Imports and Exports
  • Continually appraise and re-optimise distribution channels in respect of service requirements and cost effectiveness of assets, hired services, and 3rd parties
  • Planning:
  • Managing the supply of 500+SKUs within all three businesses through consultation with the Marketing, Category and Demand Planning teams
  • Establishing and ensured adherence to finished goods safety stock levels, minimum and maximum levels based on sales orders and forecast
  • Managing New Product Introductions (NPI’s) – ensuring forecasts are loaded so as planned introduction dates are met
  • Continuous improvement of the processes within the supply chain through identifying and implementing improvement opportunities.

Head of Direct Procurement

Lafargeholcim – Bamburi Cement Limited
06.2018 - 12.2018
  • Responsible for development of category sourcing plans to address full spend coverage for the assigned category
  • Manage and ensure implementation of the procurement of goods and services in accordance with local and global category strategy, as well as applicable policies, procedures and specifications
  • Act as the point of contact between global Category Management and operations in the country
  • Approve local purchase orders for supplies, equipment and services within authorized signature limits
  • Drive the realization of savings, supply efficiency, quality and process improvements in line with regional and global strategies as well as ensuring that locally generated savings are reported as required and according to category guidelines
  • Identify savings opportunities and initiate individual projects and initiatives for assigned categories
  • Drive the RFx process locally as defined by the category strategy
  • Ensure full execution of category strategies as required and agreed as well as ensure compliance with
  • Applicable laws, ethical standards, policies and codes of business conduct
  • Where compliance is an issue, find and eliminate root causes
  • Negotiate in close coordination with Category Management for local volumes, processes, quality levels and prices
  • Manage and develop category managers where required.

Procurement Category Manager

Lafargeholcim
05.2017 - 05.2018
  • Raw Materials & Packaging Materials, Lafargeholcim is the new leader in the building materials industry
  • It has a local presence in the 90 countries, it has most innovative cement, concrete and aggregate solution to meet customer need
  • The role involves implementation of procurement strategies in close cooperation with category manager on a local level across all countries in the East Africa Cluster (covering the Indian Ocean countries, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe)
  • Key Achievements:
  • As the lead role of East Africa Cluster managed to save 1.5M EUR in 2017 through negotiating best price for Chemicals sub category compared with 2016 exit price
  • As the lead role of East Africa Cluster managed to save 330K EUR in 2017 through negotiating best price for Cementious sub category compared with 2016 exit price
  • Successfully negotiated the cost of Pozzolana from 780 Ksh per ton to 670 Ksh per ton, which will produce of savings of 275 K EUR to the business in 2018
  • Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Manage the operational and tactical Procurement of goods and services categories in accordance with LafargeHolcim category strategy, as well as applicable policies, procedures and specifications
  • Act as the point of contact between country Category Management and operations across the cluster
  • Drive the realization of savings, supply efficiency, quality, and process improvements in the cluster, in line with regional and global strategies
  • Identify savings opportunities and initiate individual projects and initiatives at all operational levels
  • Negotiate in close coordination with Category Management for local volumes, processes, quality levels and prices
  • Manage and develop buyers where required.

Procurement Manager

Lafargeholcim – Bamburi Cement Ltd
11.2014 - 04.2017
  • As the lead role Mombasa plant managed to save 182K Euros in 2015 through buying from best cost countries with reference to the China platform
  • As the lead role Mombasa plant managed to save 511K Euro in 2015 through negotiating best price for spares and contract works compared with 2014 exit price
  • As the lead role in contract negotiations for quarry contract, we successfully managed to negotiate a quarry contract which produced a savings of 670K Euros to the business in 2016
  • Successfully negotiated the cost of Iron fine from 7000 Ksh per ton to 5000 Ksh per ton, which produced a savings of 642K Euros to the business in 2016
  • Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Trategy & Planning
  • Monitor and analyze trends in Plant spending and inventory control in order to make recommendations for the future, and to identify areas for possible savings
  • Develop, establish, implement, and enforce supplier and outsourcer guidelines, obligations, and service level agreements to the organization
  • Develop and implement all BU and Group Procurement policies and procedures, in conjunction with department leads and department-specific requirements
  • Analyze trends and market conditions for the present and future pricing, availability, lead-time, and capacity of goods and services
  • Interview, identify, and qualify potential new vendors or suppliers in order to secure more cost-effective sources of products and services
  • Develop and deliver Procurement and inventory reports, bid proposals, requirements documentation, and tender documents
  • Cquisition & Deployment
  • Define Procurement recommendations that support business goals, in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
  • Negotiate pricing, terms and conditions of sale and warranties of goods and products with key suppliers and vendors
  • Negotiate pricing, terms, and conditions of contracts with contractors and/or service providers
  • Draft and submit budget proposals and recommend subsequent budget changes as needed
  • Perational Management
  • Monitor vendor, service provider, outsourcer, and/or contractor performance to ensure quality of service
  • Ensure catalogues/ call off contracts are in place for consumables
  • Manage procurement team staffing, including recruitment, supervision, scheduling, development, evaluation, and disciplinary actions
  • Establish and maintain regular written and in-person communications with the organization’s executives, department heads, and end users regarding pertinent sourcing activities
  • Effectively communicate procurement strategies to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
  • Where necessary, coordinate delivery, installation, and storage of all purchased goods and services
  • If possible, standardize equipment to lower total costs
  • Control and perform the cost reduction program of unit: Lead time and payment terms
  • Analyze the cost structure for order items of the BU, analyze and allocate the cost of material and labor, expense for the unit, analyze the cost compared with competitive items and suppliers include local and overseas market
  • Analyze the cost of transportation

Supply Chain Manager

Henkel Kenya Ltd
04.2011 - 10.2014
  • Henkel is a global Manufacturing group that manufactures Industrial Adhesives and is a leader in fast moving consumer goods within the Laundry Home Care and Cosmetics business
  • Key brands of Henkel are Loctite, Conta, Tangit, Persil, Ata, Fa Products, Theramed, and the Gliss hair care range
  • Key Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Demand Planning – Responsible for managing the Demand Planning of all products, with the country & SBU sales teams, in conjunction with the Demand Planner
  • Logistics & warehousing Capacity Management– Manage the Logistics Manager & responsible for inbound logistics from port to warehouse, warehouse management & outbound logistics & distribution to customers
  • Fully responsible for maintaining high standards of freight & warehousing at optimal cost
  • Inventory – Responsible for inventory value, inventory accuracy, number of turns, value & percentage of slow moving & obsolete stock & for driving lowest levels of inventory possible
  • Customer Service – ensure highest levels of customer service are provided to our customers & driving target of 100% OTIF (Customer Service level)
  • Monitor customer order backlogs on daily basis & drive throughput & efficiency
  • Local S&OP Planning – ensure accurate planning for all the locally produced products
  • Coordinates via the Supply Planner, with the Plant & with internal & external suppliers, to ensure raw material availability
  • Shortage Management – managing supply shortages & reallocating among the customers as per agreed service strategy norms
  • Reporting – Control, monitor & report all Supply Chain KPI‘s on a regular basis – daily, weekly & monthly
  • OTIF, Logistics & warehousing costs, inventory value & turns, percentage slow moving & obsolete
  • It is my responsibility to identity all cost reduction levers towards product supply.

Stock Controller

Safaricom Limited
01.2008 - 01.2011
  • Safaricom is the leading service provider in East and Central Africa in the telecommunications industry with over 70% market share in Kenya
  • Uties and Responsibilities:
  • Y role as a stock controller was to manage inventory, maintain and monitor reorder levels and execute pick and pack
  • I also prepared purchase requisitions, received stocks and reconciled delivery notes with requisitions
  • I also conducted weekly and monthly cycle counts and submitting stock reports to the management accounting for variances.

Education

Phd - supply chain

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology
01.2019 - Current

Graduate Diploma – Level - undefined

Institute of Purchasing & Supply Chain (CIPS) - undefined

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt - undefined

Masters of Procurement and Logistics - undefined

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology

Post-graduate Diploma - Purchasing and Supply Chain Management

Kenya Institute of Management

Bachelor’s - food science and Technology

University of Nairobi

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education - undefined

Gituru High School

Timeline

Head

Henkel Kenya Ltd
01.2019 - Current

Phd - supply chain

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology
01.2019 - Current

Head of Direct Procurement

Lafargeholcim – Bamburi Cement Limited
06.2018 - 12.2018

Procurement Category Manager

Lafargeholcim
05.2017 - 05.2018

Procurement Manager

Lafargeholcim – Bamburi Cement Ltd
11.2014 - 04.2017

Supply Chain Manager

Henkel Kenya Ltd
04.2011 - 10.2014

Stock Controller

Safaricom Limited
01.2008 - 01.2011

Graduate Diploma – Level - undefined

Institute of Purchasing & Supply Chain (CIPS) - undefined

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt - undefined

Masters of Procurement and Logistics - undefined

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology

Post-graduate Diploma - Purchasing and Supply Chain Management

Kenya Institute of Management

Bachelor’s - food science and Technology

University of Nairobi

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education - undefined

Gituru High School

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