Deadline: 21 July, 2020
Location: Washington, DC, United States of America
The World Bank Group (WBG) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Procurement Specialist.
The bank, with 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, works with public and private sector partners, invests in groundbreaking projects and uses data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges.
Responsibilities
- Oversee policies and procedures to meet the procurement governance needs and priorities
- Enhance the efficiency in procurement processes, incorporate commerciality, sustainability and risk management processes and independently verify and validate process into the corporate procurement legal framework
- Advise and design strategies to measure non-compliance with corporate procurement policies and procedures including vendor eligibility policies, conflicts of interest restrictions and codes of conduct
- Work with business units, category management teams and other stakeholders (e.g. risk partners) to continuously improve and monitor vendor risk across the organisation
- Identify new areas of potential exposure, align vendor risk management strategies with the evolving goals and objectives of the World Bank, and execute programmes ensuring consistency and effectiveness
- Design and prepare strategic reports to demonstrate progress in vendor risk management and governance programmes
- Design and develop tools and workflow processes to assist business units and category management teams’ efforts to manage risks in WBG
- Identify potential issues and limitations of the WBG Vendor Risk Management framework
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Business, Law or a related field
- Eight years, minimum, of related work experience in policy drafting and governance, vendor management or vendor risk management
- Comprehensive knowledge of procurement concepts and methodologies
- Knowledge of the banking industry
- Understanding of governance structures used to manage vendor risk programmes and vendor mitigation and oversight
- Ability to influence change in corporate understanding and adoption of governance and vendor management concepts and interface with upper-level management
- Proficiency in supervision and programme leadership
- Excellent English writing and communication skills
To apply and for more information, click here.
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