Deadline: 22 September, 2023
Location: Madani, Sudan
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has opened applications for the role of Senior Supply Chain Manager.
Founded in 1933, IRC responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives.
Responsibilities
- Develop procurement plans for active grants in collaboration with programme coordinators/managers and internal and external stakeholders to support programme implementation
- Ensure programme teams develop distribution plans for supplies and assets of closed grants in the warehouses
- Coordinate with supply chain field staff to ensure that there is sufficient space in warehouses before sending programme supplies to the field sites
- Ensure that supply chain department is well staffed and roles and responsibilities of each have clear job description
- Prepare procurement plans, warehousing plans, transport plans and distribution plans
- Implement all IRC procurement SOPs
- Develop sourcing strategies and relationships with suppliers
- Monitor supply market and conduct market surveys and analysis
- Perform market analyses by collecting, organising and analysing market data and financial reports
- Develop and regularly review grant(s) procurement and distribution plans
- Develop and implement category sourcing strategy
- Handle negotiations with suppliers
- Lead the bidding process by developing and issuing request for proposals (RFP) and completing a purchase request process
- Maintain relationships with suppliers, and programme staff
- Prepare, review and utilise procurement contracts, including master agreements for purchases
- Prepare and submit timely and accurate supply chain report(s) to inform decision-making process
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- Advanced professional certification in supply chain management and/or emergency response management (strongly preferred)
- Five years, minimum, of experience in handling humanitarian supply chain
- Strong ERP rollout and management skills, preferably INTREGRA
- Demonstrated ability to develop and roll out supply chain policy and SOPs
- Clear training and mentoring ability
- Experience working with a diverse portfolio of donors and knowledge of specific donor guidelines
- Experienced and authorised to drive manual transmission 4WD vehicles
- High degree of flexibility and ability to work under, sometimes, extreme hardship conditions against tight deadlines
- Strong computer and communication equipment skills, including Microsoft Office applications, HF and VHF radios
- Ability to lead teams
- Change management
- Risk management
- Decision-making capability
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Conflict resolution skills
- Strategic thinking
- Result focus
- Effective communication
- Problem-solving ability
- Fluency in English
- Good working knowledge of Arabic will be an added advantage
To apply and for more information, click here.
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