CRS Supply Chain Manager – Procurement Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs

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CRS Supply Chain Manager – Procurement Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.

CRS Ethiopia looking for “Supply Chain Manager – Procurement”.

Applicants with a University Degree may apply on or before 10th June, 2024.

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peace building.

CRS Supply Chain Manager – Procurement Jobs 2024

The CRS has published a job vacancy announcement on 10th May, 2024 for qualified Ethiopians to fill in the vacant post of Supply Chain Manager – Procurement to be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

CRS Job Vacancy 2024

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

Collaborate with direct reports and various departments, especially programming leads to strengthen the Procurement plan process.
Manage the determination of procurement and logistics service requirements, desired specifications and delivery schedules, and how sourcing strategies are defined, ensuring proper coordination and communication.
Provide leadership on the development of fully compliant procurement systems and standardization of operating procedures and tools for end-to-end planning and implementation of procurement processes in accordance with Procurement policies and the GSCM handbook.
Collaborate with budget holders to develop annual budget plans that meet procurement needs.
Ensure accountability and transparency of all supply chain Procurement processes in compliance with CRS and donor regulations, and international and local standards and requirements.
Effectively manage talent and supervise. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, and complete performance management for direct reports. Monitor and assess performance to ensure adequate capacity for successful support of high-quality programming.
Lead design and implementation of a strategic sourcing and procurement process to identify, assess, select, and contract suppliers that will deliver the maximum value for money to the organization. In close coordination with the Senior procurement Manager, oversee relationships with key suppliers and assess supplier performance.
Create and maintain the proper conditions for learning. Establish a safe environment for the sharing of ideas, solutions, and difficulties and the capacity to detect, analyze and respond quickly to deficiencies. Provide capacity strengthening guidance, which includes cross-departmental learning.
Manage and control the analyze-to-contract process with strategic sourcing solutions to ensure the best value for money: market research and analysis, goods/services specifications and supplier evaluation criteria, solicitation documents, a transparent and consistent bidding process, and prepare contracts.
Ensure the highest level of transparency and integrity amongst the procurement department and prevent fraud along the procurement process. Conduct periodic risk assessment along the procurement process.
Oversee and monitor relationships and transactions with suppliers, supplier performance, and contractual obligations to ensure contract completion per authorized terms and conditions. Take action to address current and/or potential contractual issues and/or inefficiencies to mitigate risk. Advise on contract/purchase order modifications, if needed.
Monitor payment terms and schedules through maintenance of Insight open order report and oversee coordination with the finance team to ensure timely payments to vendors.
Manage a reliable procurement document trail and database management system for control, accountability, and input for proper inventory recording. Ensure all required information and records are complete, accurate, up-to-date, and properly filed. Oversee reports preparation, consolidate reporting, and analyze data for decision-making.
As part of Project Insight, lead the CP’s preparations, implementation, maintenance, and Full Adoption of the SCM workstream in Oracle, ensure that proper optimization is enhanced.
Close collaboration with the SCM-Commodity to ensure that inventory transactions are reflected timely in Insight with appropriate supporting documentation per CRS policies; and with the Finance Manager to ensure that all transactions from the Procurement and
Inventory modules are accurately reflected in the General ledger.
Lead the CP capacity strengthening initiatives for staff and partners through helping, adopting learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and mentoring and coaching, which includes cross-departmental learning.
Work with SCM RTAs to develop a technical assistance framework for partner capacity building and partner systems strengthening.

Position in Organization:

Position Title: Supply Chain Manager – Procurement
Job Identification: 3001399
Job Category: Supply Chain
Posting Date: 07/05/2024, 13:30
Locations: Addis Ababa, Ethopia
Apply Before: 10/06/2024, 13:30
Degree Level: Bachelor’s Degree
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Shift: Day

Minimum Requirement:

Education:

Degree in Supply Chain Management, Procurement, or relevant qualifications.
Master’s degree in supply chain, other relevant Master’s, or equivalent experience strongly preferred. Professional certification(s) in supply chain a plus.

Experience:

Minimum of 5 years work experience in supply chain/logistics/procurement management with progressive responsibilities, preferably with relief supply chain management.

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