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CHIDIEBERE AGOMO
Category Officer
Birmingham
Summary
Highly experienced Supply Chain Professional with over 8 years of expertise in procurement, sourcing, material planning, and vendor management. Skilled in managing supplier portfolios, mitigating risks, and ensuring on-time delivery. Looking to use smart mind, procurement and supply chain experiences to tackle new challenges.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
CATEGORY OFFICER
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Birmingham
10.2023 - Current
- Support commercial delivery of low to medium value and risk projects (typically 10k to 100K) by preparing sourcing strategies, deliver market engagement exercises and sustaining effective relationships with internal customers
- Prepare pre-tender and tender documents in accordance with Public Contract Regulations and managing evaluations
- Prepare recommendations for tender outcomes.
PRODUCTION PLANNER
Norton Motorcycles
Solihull
07.2023 - 10.2023
- Oversaw production planning of various bike models within the business
- Prepared documentation for bikes which were ready Motorcycle Single Vehicle Approval (MSVA).
- Successfully planned production of latest bike model - V4CR model.
- Regularly updated BOMs whenever there is an engineering change in design and informed the material planning team of these changes in order to ensure the latest revision of parts were ordered always.
MATERIAL CONTROLLER
AP Racing Coventry
03.2023 - 07.2023
- Issued all MRP system's suggested purchase orders
- Managed several suppliers' portfolio, ensuring adherence to KPIs in line with production requirements, lead times and warehousing capabilities
- Updated suppliers' lead time into MRP system
- Liaised closely with other departments within the logistics team, as well as other departments such as purchasing, Engineering and SQA
- Ensured on-time delivery of supplier and informed production team of any variation from plan.
PRODUCTION PLANNER
AP Racing Coventry
03.2022 - 03.2023
- Managed and released jobs to shop floor using Microsoft AX Dynamics software
- Monitored daily production plans to ensure monthly goals are on target which resulted in zero production plan in arrears
- Established and maintained production schedules for various product lines based on customer orders, safety stock, forecast and inventory levels
- Provided support to the sales and customer service teams by providing them with production updates which gave them insights on when parts were ready for delivery
- Prepared shortage report
- Monitored, prioritized and reported on Work in Progress as well as released production orders.
PROCUREMENT SUPERVISOR
Benabigail Ventures Limited
Lagos
07.2018 - 02.2022
- Contacted key company representatives to determine product and service needs
- Maintained relationships with suppliers and negotiate the best prices for their businesses
- Regularly investigated and evaluated potential and under-performing suppliers through agreed KPI such as On-time delivery, quality of product delivered
- Managed spending and built a culture of long-term procurement cost savings through bulk ordering of products in order to get quantity discount
- Performed monthly reconciliation of open purchase orders
- Introduced operational and administrative procedures to uphold integrity of agreed processes
- Trained new procurement officers
- Built supplier relationships to mitigate risk and establish effective purchasing agreements with indirect and logistics customers
- Discussed defective and unacceptable goods with inspection, quality control, end user, vendors and other stakeholders to determine the root cause and took corrective actions
PROCUREMENT OFFICER / MATERIAL CONTROLLER
Benabigail Ventures Limited
Lagos
03.2013 - 06.2018
- Issued all of the MRP system's suggested purchase orders
- Successfully Managed RFQs and RFIs as well as Blanket Purchase Agreements
- Regularly Informed the operations team on a daily basis about the availability of materials and highlighted any potential risk to scheduled deliveries
- Planned and maintained inventory for catalogue items, ensuring stock levels are maintained
- Negotiated prices and terms of sales and service agreements in order to the get the best possible prices
- Liaised with suppliers to expedite deliveries to meet delivery deadlines, while minimizing shortages through proper follow-up and this led to an average on time delivery of 80%
- Successfully oversaw sales of Hobart GmBH products to Chevron Nigeria as well as to other clients both locally and within Africa by meeting all the targets set.
CLIENT RELATION OFFICER
Sterling Homes Ltd
Lagos
04.2012 - 02.2013
- Sought for potential clients
- Handled client's inquiries and following up with clients
- Discussed client's needs and financial capabilities to propose solutions that suit them
- Promoted sales through advertisements on Social media (Facebook and Instagram), open houses and listing services which led to increased sales by 32%.
Education
Sales Training -
Hobart GmBH
Offenburg, Germany 05.2015 - 2015.05
Bachelor of Science - Project Management Technology
Federal University of Technology Owerri
Imo, Nigeria 09.2005 - 2010.11
Skills
Supply Chain & Procurement Management
Accomplishments
Achieved an overall On-Time Delivery (OTD) of 82% at Benabigail Ventures Limited
Successfully managed Benabigail Ventures Limited's vendor's catalog of over 3000 items.
Co-developed the contents of Benabigail Ventures Limited website.
Successfully met and surpassed Hobart GmBH yearly sales target.
Reduced organizational operating costs by 28% through strategic ordering.
Improved Sterling Homes Limited's customer service level by 60%.
Reduced AP Racing's production orders in arrears for their client McClaren to 0%
Reduced AP Racing's overall overdue orders from 42% to 17%
Software
SAP
AX Dynamics
Salesforce
Adobe Photoshop &Lightroom
AutoCAD
I am currently learning Python programming language and Microsoft PowerBI
Certification
Strategic Planning
Interests
Graphics Design, Photography, Digital Arts, Coding, Football and sports in general
Conferences
Attended the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) which is usually held in Houston, Texas in 2016 and 2019.
OTC is a series of conferences and exhibitions, focused on the exchanging of technical knowledge relevant to the development of the offshore energy resources, primarily oil and natural gas.
Timeline
CATEGORY OFFICER
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
10.2023 - Current
PRODUCTION PLANNER
Norton Motorcycles
07.2023 - 10.2023
MATERIAL CONTROLLER
AP Racing Coventry
03.2023 - 07.2023
PRODUCTION PLANNER
AP Racing Coventry
03.2022 - 03.2023
Strategic Planning
11-2019
PROCUREMENT SUPERVISOR
Benabigail Ventures Limited
07.2018 - 02.2022
Sales Training -
Hobart GmBH
05.2015 - 2015.05
PROCUREMENT OFFICER / MATERIAL CONTROLLER
Benabigail Ventures Limited
03.2013 - 06.2018
On/Offshore HSE Competence Development Training Levels 1-3
06-2012
CLIENT RELATION OFFICER
Sterling Homes Ltd
04.2012 - 02.2013
Bachelor of Science - Project Management Technology
Federal University of Technology Owerri
09.2005 - 2010.11
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