Senior Officer, Procurement
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About the Role
The IFRC is seeking a Senior Procurement Officer for its Dubai Logistics Hub. The role involves driving operational and tactical procurement, developing sourcing strategies, managing vendor performance, and ensuring compliance with IFRC policies.
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Responsibilities
- Implement the overall procurement strategy in close cooperation with the global procurement team
- Ensure that the regional procurement supports and delivers all regional programmatic objectives including long term programmes and emergency responses
- Ensure that the procurement unit delivers a procurement service that understands and meets the needs of the IFRC, partners and services users
- Accountable to achieve value for money
- Support procurement planning with operational colleagues based on the needs of the operational plan
- Identifying cost reduction opportunities in procurement and sourcing
- Develop a robust supplier base within the region and manage the value chain complexity and risks
- Develop a sourcing plan in line with global sourcing strategy and regional needs
- Negotiate and implement Frame Agreements as per short and long term operation needs and efficiencies
- Implement vendor performance management to ensure high performance of IFRC vendors
- Provide consultation to regional and country general management to ensure support for sourcing strategy implementation
- Collaborate closely with national societies procurement focal points to ensure compliance with IFRC procurement policies
Requirements
- Required university degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, IT or other relevant area or proven professional experience
- Professional Procurement Qualification highly preferred
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in managing complex procurement operations including high volume in procurement, of which minimum 3 years at international level
- Required experience of managing and integrating tactical and operational procurement
- Required in depth grasp of international procurement practices including legal aspects
- Required problem solving skills
- Required demonstrated ability to analyse operational procurement impact
- Required commercial acumen and proven negotiating skills
- Required ability to work to tight deadlines and handle multiple tasks
- Required ability to work in matrix environment
- Required ability to work in a cross cultural and cross functional environment, strong interpersonal skills
- Required ability to deliver efficient operational procurement in a challenging environment
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Organizational Context
- The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, with a network of 191 member National Societies.
- IFRC works to meet the needs and improve the lives of vulnerable people before, during and after disasters, health emergencies and other crises.
Job Purpose
- The Senior Procurement Officer shall contribute to the success of the procurement activities in the Dubai Logistics Hub by ensuring effective operational and tactical procurement of goods and services.
- The incumbent is accountable to drive procurement with the support of the Lead Global Procurement and Global Sourcing and Global procurement team.
- The incumbent will lead and drive the regional procurement team to ensure the successful development and execution of procurement in a challenging and complex supply chain environment.
- The incumbent will be accountable for procurement performance against set objectives and KPIs.
- The incumbent will oversee the execution of procurement (which includes sourcing, procurement planning, procurement strategies, procurement execution and vendor management).
- The incumbent ensures value for money objectives are achieved.
- The incumbent will have to develop a robust supplier base and manage the value chain complexity and risks in an uncertain environment to release total value contribution of procurement.
- The incumbent will ensure effective execution of procurement, support tendering for the region as required, ensuring best value for money objectives are achieved.
Job Duties And Responsibilities
- Implement the overall procurement strategy in close cooperation with the global procurement team.
- Ensure that the regional procurement supports and delivers all regional programmatic objectives including long term programmes and emergency responses.
- Ensure that the procurement unit delivers a procurement service that understands and meets the needs of the IFRC, partners and services users, balancing service quality against service cost/commercial implications.
- Accountable to achieve value for money.
- Support procurement planning with operational colleagues based on the needs of the operational plan.
- Identifying cost reduction opportunities in procurement and sourcing.
- Develop a robust supplier base within the region and manage the value chain complexity and risks in an uncertain environment to release total value contribution of procurement.
- Develop a sourcing plan in line with global sourcing strategy and regional needs.
- Negotiate and implement Frame Agreements as per short and long term operation needs and efficiencies.
- Implement vendor performance management to ensure high performance of IFRC vendors.
- Provide consultation to regional and country general management to ensure support for sourcing strategy implementation.
- Collaborate closely with national societies procurement focal points to ensure compliance with IFRC procurement policies while ensuring value for money and efficient procurement at country level.
Education
- Required university degree in Business, economics, Engineering, IT or other relevant area or proven professional experience in the area of expertise.
- Professional Procurement Qualification highly preferred
Experience
- Required minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in managing complex procurement operations including high volume in procurement, of which minimum 3 years at international level.
- Required experience of managing and integrating tactical and operational procurement
- Preferred experience within the commercial sector
- Preferred Red Cross/Red Crescent knowledge and experience
Knowledge, Skills and Languages
- Required in depth grasp of international procurement practices including legal aspects
- Required problem solving skills
- Required demonstrated ability to analyse operational procurement impact, including at operational/institutional levels.
- Required commercial acumen and Proven negotiating skills.
- Required ability to work to tight deadlines and handle multiple tasks.
- Required ability to work in matrix environment.
- Required ability to work in a cross cultural and cross functional environment, strong interpersonal skills.
- Required ability to deliver efficient operational procurement in a challenging environment.
- Required ability to synthesise and analyse complex data.
- Preferred a broad understanding of humanitarian issues, disaster recovery and related organization.
- Required experience working with ERP systems.
- Required fluently spoken and written English and good command of another IFRC official language (French, Spanish or Arabic).
Competencies, Values and Comments
- Values: Respect for diversity; Integrity; Professionalism; Accountability
- Core competencies: Communication; Collaboration and teamwork; Judgement and decision making; National society and customer relations; Creativity and innovation; Building trust
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