Supply Chain Officer NOA

The Supply Chain Officer leads logistics and procurement teams to enable synergy in supply chain operations, providing analytics and contributing to field supply chain activities. The role supports integrated supply chain operations to meet food assistance needs and service provision requirements, overseeing warehouses and supporting national capacity strengthening in Tajikistan.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and implementation of supply chain plans and procedures, in line with the global WFP supply chain strategy and functional strategies, policies and plans, to achieve operational cost efficiency, agility, reliability, 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.
• Contribute to the implementation of supply chain operations, initiatives and services to ensure a timely, cost-effective and integrated approach with core activities and services.
• Collect and analyze data and put together reports highlighting opportunities for improvement and effective operationalization of supply chain within the area of responsibility.
• Conduct portions of financial analysis and budget reviews, drawing out recommendations to the supervisor for maximizing use of resources and effectiveness of supply chain operations.
• Partner at the operational level and collaborate with counterparts in the key supply chain functions contributing to an integrated supply chain approach to food assistance and cross-functional operational alignment.
• 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 following 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.
• Prepare 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• At least one (1) year of postgraduate professional experience in procurement and/or logistics.
• Experience in managing logistics and/or procurement.
• Experience in analysing 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 analysing end-to-end supply chain operations is desirable.
• Experience working with supply chain information systems.
• Experience in troubleshooting and solving operational issues.
• Fluency in English as well as Tajik and/or Russian is required.

Skills

• Supply Chain Management
• Procurement
• Logistics Management
• Operational Analysis
• Supply Chain Strategy
• Supply Chain Implementation
• Operational Planning
• Stakeholder Collaboration
• End-to-End Supply Chain Analysis
• Supply Chain Information Systems
• Operational Issue Troubleshooting
• Warehouse Management
• Capacity Strengthening
• Data Analysis

Languages

English, Tajik, Russian