Country Supply Chain Manager at Action Against Hunger - USA

Action Against Hunger-USA is a global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger. We save the lives of malnourished children. We ensure families can access clean water, food, training, and health care. We enable entire communities to be free from hunger. With more than 6,500 staff in over 45 countries, our programs reached 14.9 million people in 2015.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Country Supply Chain Manager

Location: Abuja

You’ll contribute to ending world hunger by

• Ensuring an operationally enhanced logistical, supply chain and procurement function at mission level in order to provide programs with optimum support.
• This position is based in Abuja, Nigeria.

Responsibilities
Key activities in your role will include:

• Participates in the design and implementation of the supply strategy for the mission:
• Prepare country supply chain strategy.
• Make relevant recommendations on supply chain strategy.
• Pilot implementation of mission supply chain strategy.
• Ensure that procurements teams are fully aware of mission supply chain strategy across the mission.
• Continuous update of training materials in SCM.
• Perform training across the mission in supply chain.
• Animate a training section on NHF for SCM.

Coordinates procurement at national level and mitigate fraud:

• In light with PPPs and Procurement plans, make recommendation for a good coordination.
• Ensure that procurements are carried out on a standard across the mission.
• Identify risks on procurement performance and alert Head of Logistics Department and requesters.
• Recommend adequate resources for a performing supply chain management in the mission.
• Represent Action Against Hunger in Supply chain forums and make recommendations to Head of Logistics Department.
• Develop measures to keep a standard level in quality management in supply chain.
• Actively participate in implementation of quality improvement measures.
• Ensures procurements are made in line with the organization standards. Ensure the organization procurement procedures are known and applied.

Supervise supply chain in Abuja and manage HQ procurements:

• Ensure the best performance in procurements in Abuja: Transparency, shortest delivery time, value for money.
• Directly manage tender's in Abuja.
• Ensure supply chain strategy and all guidelines are implemented in Abuja.
• Ensure all data bases are consistently updated in Abuja.
• Deal with all quality issues linked with procurements in Abuja.
• Update and share HQ procurement plan.
• Prepare HQPRs whenever needed.
• Follow-up on HQ procurement follow up and update requesters.
• Manage procurement team in Abuja.
• Make sure all procurement team in Abuja have action plans and they are implemented.
• Manage the performance of the procurement team in Abuja.
• Perform trainings.

Monitoring of Supply Chain at country level:

• Continuously analyze SP&PPP and compare with procurements.
• Gather and analyze procurement information and raise alerts when needed.
• Support base team on planning of their supply chain.
• Monthly update supply chain KPIs and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Yearly call for interest.
• Monthly spot checks.
• Following of market evolution via survey, forum, st.andard means.
• Follow-up of economic indicators that can impact the market prices (inflation rate, tax law..).
• Carry out call for interest at least once every year.

Participate in proposal writing and donor reporting:

• Provide updated data to technical department for proposal writing.
• Advise technical departments on the SC related needs in proposal writing (local market, delivery time.
• Compile users feedback for a continuous improvement of the tool.
• Prepare PPP for each new proposal.
• Adhoc assessments, survey in the framework of any new proposal.
• Prepare tools to better track data on donors reporting for each grant.
• Prepare guidelines in relation with grants closure.
• Play active role in implementation of grant closure prepardness.
• Provide data for intermediary and final reports whenever required.

Does this description fit you?

• You’ve broad experience in humanitarian Supply Chain management
• You have a Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering or a related field.
• You have significant experience working in similar position.
• You have a minimum of 5 years of extensive experience in procurement and coordination, preferably in Humanitarian or development work.
• You have demonstrated professional experience working in a fast paced, complex humanitarian emergency context.
• You have a good general knowledge of IT, mechanics, communications, supply chain management & procurement.
• Computer literacy including all Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, Power point).
• Capacity to conduct trainings and team management.
• Fluency in English.
• Excellent attention to detail, highly organized, rigorous, self-motivated, strong sense of responsibility, ability to work independently.
• Capacity for analysis, synthesis and reporting of large amounts of information.
• High level of Integrity and Transparency.
• Excellent people management skills combined with the ability and desire to further develop staff capacity.
• Possess strong analytical, communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Effective multi-tasking skills with ability to coordinate and handle pressure/ stress well.
• Flexible, able to live and work in a stressful and insecure environment.
• Previous experience working for NGOs an asset, particularly international NGOs.
• Fluent in basic IT and networking technology.

Our Core Values:

• In this position, you are expected to demonstrate Action Against Hunger-USA-USA’s five core competencies
• Respect- we work with compassion and dedication, treating everyone the same way we expect them to treat us.
• Integrity - we believe that being honest and fair is integral to every aspect of our work; conducting our work with a spirit of sincerity, truthfulness and transparency is imperative.
• Creativity - we encourage new ideas, embrace innovative solutions, and create opportunities for meaningful and exciting ways to do our jobs and provide solutions to address the needs of the populations we serve.
• Excellence - we strive to provide services that meet, and even exceed, the expectations of our stakeholders (populations in need, staff, communities and donors).
• Empowerment - we are committed to fostering an environment in which our staff, partners and communities where we work have the space to grow, develop and feel confident about participating.

Application Closing Date
21st December, 2018.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online