# Sr. Supply Chain Associate

**Company**: International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
**Location**: Manila
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The Manila Supply Chain Unit (MSCU), part of IOM's Supply Chain Division, is seeking a Senior Supply Chain Associate to support procurement compliance reviews, risk management, and quality assurance activities.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

- Coordinating and prioritising Procurement Process Review (PPR) cases

- Providing technical advice on procurement policy interpretation and compliance requirements

- Analysing procurement review findings and identifying areas for improvement

- Developing and enhancing quality control mechanisms and risk mitigation strategies

- Providing technical guidance and capacity-building support to IOM Missions and staff

The MSCU plays a crucial role in ensuring that IOM regulations are applied and adhered to in procurements conducted by Missions and Offices worldwide.

**Responsibilities:**

- Coordinate the allocation, tracking and prioritisation of assigned Procurement Process Review (PPR) cases and provide functional guidance to team members.

- Serve as a senior technical focal point for complex, high-risk or emergency procurement reviews.

- Support the MSCU Head in promoting the consistent application and interpretation of IOM procurement policies and procedures.

- Analyse procurement review findings, recommendations, and acquisition trends.

- Contribute to the development and enhancement of quality control mechanisms, internal controls, preventive measures, and risk mitigation strategies.

- Analyse and conduct due diligence review of procurement cases submitted by IOM Global Missions.

- Coordinate the timely completion of PPRs, including the preparation and submission of analyses and recommendations.

- Assess and rate the quality of procurement submissions.

- Identify deviations, weaknesses, or errors and recommend corrective actions.

- Obtain required clarifications and return completed reviews and cases to requesting offices.

- Conduct risk and value analyses of procurement cases and maintain risk registers.

- Support internal and external audit activities.

- Compile, analyse and report procurement review statistics, workload data, KPIs, and management information.

- Provide technical guidance, advice, coaching and capacity-building support to IOM Missions, Offices and staff.

- Develop and deliver procurement compliance briefings, webinars, workshops and coaching sessions.

- Develop and maintain training materials, guidance notes, lessons learned, case studies and knowledge management resources.

- Assist the MSCU Head in the design, development, deployment and continuous improvement of procurement and supply chain training programs.

- Support the professional development of procurement personnel.

- Support IOM Global Missions by conducting Ex-ante Review of solicitation documents.

- Maintain complete, accurate and secure records of all PPR reviews, recommendations, analyses and case presentations.

- Coordinate the day-to-day operations of the PPR Team.

- Undertake duty travel to provide procurement assistance, conduct training activities, and support field missions.

- Perform such other related duties as may be assigned by the Head of MSCU.

**Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Logistics, Management or a related field with five years of relevant professional experience;

- or High School diploma with seven years of relevant professional experience;

- Certification in procurement, such as CIPS or an equivalent qualification is desirable.

**Experience:**

- A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in procurement, contract management, supply chain management, administrative services or related areas;

- Experience conducting procurement compliance reviews, risk assessments, quality assurance activities, or providing technical advisory support is an advantage;

- A minimum of three years of professional experience in procurement, contract management, or related areas within the UN common system or in an international public organisation, is an advantage;

- Experience working with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in the area of purchasing and/or supply chain is an advantage.

**Skills:**

- Demonstrated knowledge of procurement compliance review, procurement risk management, and quality assurance principles;

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills;

- Ability to interpret and apply procurement policies, regulations, procedures and standards;

- Ability to provide technical guidance, mentor colleagues and coordinate functional activities;

- Proficiency in Oracle, MS Office applications;

## Skills

### Required
- procurement
- contract management
- supply chain management
- risk management
- quality assurance
- Oracle
- MS Office

### Nice to have
- CIPS
- ERP system

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