KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, within delegated authority):

• Consolidate and analyze data from which to inform Country sourcing strategies or plan specialist procurement initiatives that support effective and cost-optimizing purchase decisions. 
• Provide oversight, guidance, and support with/to Country Offices with relatively straightforward procurement needs (moderate value commodities, delivering programmes of a similar nature) on implementing best practice procurement policies and procedures, ensuring a strategic, forward purchasing approach to procurement in compliance with wider WFP policies, standards and regulations.
• Lead the implementation of procurement projects of moderate complexity or manage operational activities for a Country Office (e.g. issue tenders, evaluate offers, and negotiate/award contracts), to ensure successful procurement of food and non-food commodities or services. 
• Collate information and draft appropriate responses to recommendations to support auditing of procurement activities and ensure conformity with compliance rules.
• Identify, develop, and maintain strong relationships with all relevant suppliers and vendors to enable WFP to maximize the value of the service delivered.
• Manage and coordinate effective relationships with inspection and superintendent firms to ensure quality control, specification conformity, volume assessment, monitoring, and verification of deliveries.
• Work closely with cross-functional counterparts to align procurement activities and promote an integrated supply-chain approach to food assistance.
• Coordinate and prepare 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.
• Manage individual procurement officers or small procurement teams ensuring appropriate development and enable high performance.
• Build the capacity of WFP staff and external partners to take a strategic and proactive approach to the procurement of food and non-food commodities and services e.g., through provision of training sessions. 
• Contribute to preparedness actions, providing technical recommendations and guidance, and monitoring the management of procurement-specific risks.
• Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food assistance needs.
• Other as required.

Skills

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE:

• Experience communicating and coordinating with UN agencies/ large international conglomerates.
• Experience working with food commodity markets (incl. experience with freight markets) as well as goods and services needed in support of WFP’s Operations and its related market intelligence.
• Experience working with vendors.
• Has experience with budgeting, pipelines, and related issues in WFP Corporate Systems.

STANDARD MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Experience:

Total 5 years of professional experience for CST II.

Total 3 years of professional experience for CST I.

Education:

• Advanced University degree in Economics, Commerce, Business Administration, Engineering, Legal or Accounting or other relevant field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.

Language:

• International Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language. Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN language: Arabic, Chinese, French,
• Russian, Spanish, and/or Portuguese (a WFP working language). 
• National Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language, if different.