Biomass Sourcing Coordinator at Lafarge Cement

Lafarge Africa Plc is a leading Sub-Saharan Africa building solutions Company and member of the LafargeHolcim group.

The vision of Lafarge Africa Plc is to be the most trusted and preferred partner of African construction professionals and home builders by delivering cement, concrete, aggregates and other building solutions that are best in quality, envir…
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Biomass Sourcing Coordinator

• Job TypeFull Time
• QualificationBA/BSc/HND
• Experience3 years
• LocationOgun
• Job FieldSales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development 

Requisition ID: 14406

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
• 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.
• 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.

What we are looking for

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

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

• Biomass Sourcing Manager

Key interfaces, stakeholders and relationships:
Internal:

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

External:

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

Mobility Requirements:

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

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to Lafarge Cement on careers.holcimgroup.com to apply