Asociado/a Senior de Adquisiciones SC7

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• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.

• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger around the globe and the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, providing food assistance in emergencies, and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.

For its efforts to fight hunger, for its contribution to improving conditions of peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driver of efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict, WFP was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020.

Every day, WFP works around the world to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, especially women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.  In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil strife, and natural disasters. After an emergency, WFP uses the food to help communities rebuild their lives.

WFP has been present in Ecuador since 1964, being an innovative partner that supports government policies to promote food and nutrition security, gender equality and food sovereignty, targeting its actions in support of the most vulnerable populations (More information at https://es.wfp.org/paises/ecuador).

WFP Ecuador’s Country Strategic Plan (CSP, 2023-2027) focuses on reducing hunger and malnutrition, achieving food security, and moving towards the consolidation of sustainable, equitable and inclusive food systems.

This position is based in Quito - Ecuador and reports to Country Director.      

THE ROLE: To lead a comprehensive range of procurement support activities, performing research and analysis, and providing recommendations to support the efficient and effective procurement services

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive):

1. Provide operational coordination and guidance, to support procurement projects and activities following standard processes and contributing to the effective procurement of goods and services.
2. Identify, assess and recommend potential suppliers, and ensure necessary data/documents are distributed to support the selection of suppliers, ensuring standard processes are followed.
3. Review, amend and prioritize purchasing requests, and provide recommendations to requisitioners, to support the procurement of goods and services, at lowest cost to WFP.
4. Contribute to negotiations with new suppliers on terms and conditions of orders, with guidance from a Procurement Officer, in order to obtain the best terms and lowest costs for WFP.
5. Review and prepare Purchase Orders, contracts and any supporting documentation for approval by the appropriate stakeholder, and approve purchases within delegated authority, in order to enable the swift purchase of goods and services.
6. Conduct research and analysis on a range of data, and produce substantive reports providing insight and recommendations to Procurement Officers and enabling informed decision-making.
7. Design, develop and oversee the maintenance of databases and records, to ensure information is accurate, organised, and available for others to access, and supports reporting requirements. Job Profile: Senior Procurement Associate G7 CCOG: 2.2.06.a. Page 2 of 4 Last revision: 1 April 2022
8. Act as an escalation point, liaising with suppliers and providing solutions to complex issues related to delivered goods, using initiative and following process, to ensure timely resolution of problems.
9. Work in collaboration with internal counterparts, in order to align procurement activities with wider programmes and ensure a coherent approach to meeting food assistance needs.
10. Manage a team of staff, providing advice, guidance and training, to ensure individual and team objectives are delivered to agreed standards and deadlines.
11. Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to support WFP to quickly respond and deploy food and needed resources to affected areas at the onset of the crisis

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Education

Completion of secondary school education. Post-secondary paraprofessional training or certification in Procurement or another related field. Bachelor’s degree or advanced university degree in business administration, foreign trade, Commercial Engineering o related fields is desirable.

Experience

Seven or more years of progressively responsible work experience in the relative business stream with experience in general administrative work.

Knowledge and Skills

• Experience coordinating with suppliers (e.g. retailers, wholesalers and traders)
• Demonstrated experience coordinating procurement processes with other units/ teams (e.g., logistics)
• Experience supervising teams

Language: Fluency in Spanish. English advanced.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Position: Procurement Associate

Unit: Supply Chain

Contract Type: Service Contract SC-7

Location: Quito, Ecuador

Contract Duration: 12 months with the possibility of extension

This post is open to Ecuadorian citizens, and legal citizens with a work permit in Ecuador.

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