Senior Manager, FFB Sourcing & Procurement

🏢 Golden Oil Industries Limited · 📍 Owo, Ondo

₦750,000 - ₦1,000,000/month

About the role

The Senior Manager, FFB Sourcing & Procurement role at Golden Oil Industries Limited is based at the company's operations in Owo, Ondo State, and sits at the centre of one of the most operationally critical functions in a palm oil business: making sure the mill always has enough Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB), the raw palm fruit clusters that get crushed and processed into crude palm oil, to keep running at capacity. Golden Oil Industries, incorporated in 1988, has grown into a household name in Nigeria's edible oil industry, supplying refined palm oil, palm kernel oil, olein, soybean oil and related products, and its plantation and milling operations in Ondo State depend on a steady, well-managed external FFB supply chain to stay productive.

The core mandate of this role is to develop and execute the company's FFB sourcing strategy so that supply to the mills stays consistent, cost-effective, and high quality. Unlike an internal plantation manager role, this position is explicitly about managing external supply: the listing describes leading the identification, negotiation, onboarding, and ongoing management of external FFB suppliers, which can include plantations, estates, aggregators, traders, and independent producers. This means the successful candidate needs to be comfortable working across a fragmented and sometimes informal supplier landscape, not just negotiating with a small number of large, established partners.

The responsibilities break down into several connected areas. On the sourcing strategy side, the manager needs to build and continuously refine an FFB sourcing approach aligned with mill capacity and production targets, while constantly tracking the local FFB market, including availability, pricing trends, seasonality and competitor buying activity, and building a genuinely resilient external supplier network across the relevant sourcing locations. On the commercial side, the role involves leading supplier negotiations to secure competitive pricing and favourable terms, establishing supplier agreements and purchase frameworks, and evaluating the full financial picture of sourcing decisions, including transport, quality-related deductions, and logistics costs, not just the headline purchase price.

Supplier relationship management is a distinct and ongoing part of the job: building and maintaining strong relationships with key FFB suppliers, developing formal supplier performance mechanisms that track volume, quality, pricing, reliability and compliance, and resolving supplier issues quickly enough that they don't disrupt the mill's supply. This connects directly to the mill supply and capacity optimisation side of the role, where the manager works closely with Mill Operations to understand FFB requirements on a daily, weekly and monthly basis, monitors actual intake against plan, and coordinates with logistics teams to keep purchased FFB moving to the mill on schedule.

Quality management runs through the whole role as well: ensuring purchased FFB meets required standards, monitoring ripeness, freshness, contamination and foreign material levels, investigating supplier-side quality issues jointly with the mill and quality teams, and tracking rejection rates and quality-related deductions as an ongoing performance indicator. The role also carries a market intelligence function, monitoring regional FFB pricing and competitor buying behaviour and feeding that intelligence back to management, and a governance function, ensuring procurement activity complies with company policy and regulatory requirements, maintaining proper documentation of supplier onboarding and transactions, and implementing controls against procurement fraud, price manipulation and conflicts of interest, working closely with Finance, Internal Audit, Legal and Operations along the way.

Finally, the role has a clear reporting responsibility: preparing regular reports on sourcing volumes, prices, supplier performance, mill utilisation and procurement costs, tracking sourcing KPIs, monitoring budget performance, and forecasting future FFB availability and procurement needs, while maintaining accurate supplier and procurement databases.

On qualifications, Golden Oil is asking for a Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Business Administration, Economics or a related field, with a professional certification in procurement/supply chain or a relevant agricultural discipline noted as an advantage. The experience bar is substantial: eight to twelve years overall, with significant experience specifically in FFB sourcing, palm oil, agricultural commodities, procurement or plantation operations, and a minimum of three to five years in a managerial or senior sourcing/procurement role. Strong knowledge of the palm oil value chain and the FFB procurement ecosystem specifically is called out as essential, along with demonstrated experience negotiating commercial agreements with external suppliers; experience working directly with palm oil mills, plantations, aggregators, traders or independent FFB suppliers is described as highly desirable.

This role suits an experienced agricultural commodity sourcing or procurement professional who already understands how palm oil supply chains function in practice, comfortable operating in a market with many small, sometimes informal suppliers rather than a handful of large corporate vendors, and confident negotiating directly in that environment. Given the ₦750,000-₦1,000,000 monthly salary disclosed and the double-digit years of experience requested, this is a senior, specialised procurement leadership role rather than a generalist supply chain position.

Applicants preparing to apply should be ready to speak concretely about specific FFB or agricultural commodity supplier networks they've built or managed, quality and rejection-rate figures they've tracked, and negotiation outcomes they've secured, since the listing's depth on quality management, supplier performance, and market intelligence suggests these are the areas Golden Oil will probe most closely during screening.

How to apply: Apply via Golden Oil Industries Limited's hiring portal at goldenoiltd.seamlesshiring.com

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement an FFB sourcing strategy aligned with mill capacity and production targets
• Identify and develop reliable FFB sources from plantations, estates, aggregators, traders, independent producers
• Continuously assess the local FFB supply market (availability, pricing, seasonality, competitor activity)
• Lead negotiations with FFB suppliers for competitive pricing and terms
• Establish supplier agreements, purchase arrangements, and commercial frameworks
• Evaluate financial impact of sourcing decisions (transport, quality deductions, logistics)
• Build and maintain relationships with key FFB suppliers
• Develop supplier performance management mechanisms (volume, quality, pricing, reliability, compliance)
• Coordinate with Mill Operations on FFB requirements and logistics
• Ensure purchased FFB meets required quality standards; monitor rejection rates
• Monitor regional FFB market prices and competitor activity
• Ensure compliance with company procurement policies and regulations
• Prepare regular reports on sourcing volumes, prices, supplier performance, and costs

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field
• Professional certification in Procurement/Supply Chain or relevant agricultural discipline is an advantage
• 8-12 years of relevant experience, with significant experience in FFB sourcing, palm oil, agricultural commodities, procurement, or plantation operations
• Minimum 3-5 years in a managerial/senior sourcing or procurement position
• Strong knowledge of the palm oil value chain and FFB procurement ecosystem
• Demonstrated experience managing external suppliers and negotiating commercial agreements
• Experience working with palm oil mills, plantations, aggregators, traders, or independent FFB suppliers is highly desirable

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