Samson Agbese

Global Food Solutions Leader

• Lead project manager in building a $3 million grain innovation center
• Pioneering supply chain department for Africa
• Cost control via shrewd negotiations & discovering cheaper OEMs
• Supplier management, RFQs, creating purchase orders and frame agreements
• Analyzing innovation in procurement trends and adopting improvement measures where necessary
• Handling shipping and logistics related issues

• Major Achievement: successfully guided the organization through World Bank's procurement audit to qualify for infrastructure loan of $10 million
• Responsible for $8million annual procurement budget
• Transitioned procurement system from manual system to an ERP driven system (SAGE)
• Managed 13 warehouses- inventory management, restocking, slow moving stock

Sector: Oil & Gas/Manufacturing

• Major Achievement: Managed successful procurement of equipment, materials and services valued at over $30 million within budget and within time frame
• This enabled timely delivery of critical projects to important clients like ExxonMobil and Shell Plc
• Oversaw technical procurement activities

• Major Achievement: 4 Months International assignment to Tenaris Mexico for knowledge sharing
• Identified flaws in the operating & maintenance processes and defined corrective actions
• Was responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordination of resources for project execution
• Conducted post project evaluation to identify learning points
• Project Manager for installation of an electroplating line & warehouse valued at $2.5 million

• Company Overview: Via UKDC
• Part of the team that processed the 2011 United Kingdom Census
• Use of bespoke software (Softtrack) to analyze data & training new recruits
• Via UKDC