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JOB TITLE: Head of Supply Chain
TYPE AND LEVEL OF CONTRACT: Fixed Term- NOA
UNIT/DIVISION: Supply Chain
DUTY STATION (City, Country): Egypt CO Cairo
REPORT TO (Job title): Deputy Country Director
DURATION:1 year - renewable
ABOUT WFP:
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
In Egypt, WFP is committed to supporting the Government’s priorities towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. WFP’s current five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2023-2028 is designed to fully support Egypt’s Vision 2030 and ensure food and nutrition security for all Egyptians and focuses on three interrelated thematic areas:
• Support the crisis-affected populations through food assistance and resilience building.
• Improve the resilience of vulnerable Egyptian populations especially in Haya Karima villages.
• Provide capacity strengthening to the Government and opportunities for South-South Cooperation.
Job Purpose
Under the supervision of the Deputy Country Director, the Supply Chain Officer provide analytics and contributions to the supply chain activities or/and contribute to field supply chain operations, following an effective and integrated supply chain approach meeting the food assistance needs of beneficiaries and service provision requirements for partners.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, within delegated authority):
Contribute and supervise the development and implementation of supply chain plans and procedures, in line with the global WFP supply chain strategy and regional/functional strategies, policies, and plans, to achieve operational cost efficiency, agility, reliability, and quality and to support national capacity strengthening.
Contribute to country context analyses and management of end-to-end operational supply chain and retail networks, in order to support addressing operational supply chain challenges and obtaining operational optimization through service providers and cooperating partners.
Contribute and supervise the development of procurement programs and operational activities, (e.g. issue tenders, evaluate offers and negotiate/award contracts), following standard processes and contributing to successful procurement of food and non-food commodities or services.
Conduct portions of market analysis and supply chain network mapping for the review of the supervisor, to support wider analytics on the selection of appropriate operation modalities to improve supply chain performance.
Support supply chain projects or operational day-to-day activities in compliance with the established supply chain strategies, policies, procedures, and controls, and follow corporate standards, contributing to quality control, loss prevention, risk mitigation, and cost-effectiveness.
Support monitoring supply chain activities to check that appropriate internal controls are followed to increase the day-to-day efficiencies and overall performance of supply chain operations.
Support management of service providers/vendors, port, fleet and warehouse operations to promote safe, efficient planning and execution of WFP operations.
Ensure preparation of accurate and timely reports or support preparation of complex reports, dashboards and other visual materials on supply chain activities for supervisor’s review to contribute to informed decision-making and consistency of information presented to the stakeholders.
Guide support staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with analysis and queries.
Contribute to preparedness actions and support quick emergency response to deploy food and resources at the onset of the crisis.
Other as required.
OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS (details to be determined by Post Managers):
In line with the Country Strategic Plan for 2023-2028, the operational requirements and the progressive transition towards a stronger enabler and capacity strengthening role, with direct implementation of supply chain activities incumbent will be required to:
1. Ensure the development and implementation of annual supply chain work plans, with a view to strengthening the WFP enabler role, including through the identification of financial service providers and key partners for the delivery of food/cash assistance for WFP and its counterparts.
2. Work in close collaboration with internal counterparts to align supply chain activities, with wider programs and ensure a coherent approach to meeting food, non-food as well as capacity-strengthening needs.
3. Partner at the operational level and collaborate with external counterparts in the key supply chain functions contributing to an integrated supply chain approach to food and non-food assistance and cross-functional operational alignment.
4. Contribute and ensure the implementation of assurance plans for food assistance, including in-kind food and cash assistance
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Education: Advanced University degree preferably in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Economics, Business Administration, Logistics, or other related field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.
Desired experiences for entry into the role:
Experience in analyzing operational context and trends;
Experience in supporting analytical and conceptual work on supply chain strategy and implementation.
Experience in designing plans and operational scenarios in collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders.
Experience in analyzing end-to-end supply chain operations.
Experience working with supply chain information systems.
Experience in troubleshooting and solving operational issues.
experience: At least 5 years of relevant experience, including one year of professional experience in Supply chain management
Language: Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language, if different.
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