Head Of Procurement Job at World Food Programme

• Contribute towards the development of procurement plans and processes ensuring compliance with wider procurement policies and WFP standards.
• Track and analyze data to provide recommendations for process improvement.
• Collate data and contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reports of procurement activities, to contribute to a WFP wide view that enables informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders, leading to performance optimization.
• Collate information and draft appropriate responses to recommendations to support auditing of procurement activities and ensure conformity with compliance rules.
• Work in close collaboration with internal counterparts and external partners including suppliers, superintendents, companies, etc to align procurement activities with wider programmes and ensure a coherent approach to meeting food assistance needs.
• Support training of WFP staff to take a strategic and proactive approach to the procurement of food and non-food commodities and services, for example designing and reviewing training materials.
• Guide and supervise more junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with more complex analyses and queries.
• Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP is able to quickly respond and deploy food and needed goods and services to affected areas at the onset of the crisis.
• Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food assistance needs.

Standard Minimum Qualifications:

• Advanced University degree in Economics, Commerce, Business Administration, Engineering, Legal or Accounting or other relevant fields.
• Applicants with a first University degree in the Procurement related field with two (2) additional years of related work experience or training/courses will be considered.
• Five years or more postgraduate progressive professional (managerial) experience in procurement or related field with a minimum of 2 years in a leadership role.
• Fluency (level C) in the English language and the duty station’s language.
• Experience with procurement activities (Vendor Management, Commodity/Product/Service Intelligence, Systems & Reporting, Tendering and Contracting and Ethics and Compliance etc.).
• Experience conducting cost analysis.
• Experience working with vendors or other partners.