# Procurement Officer

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Nairobi, IHUB
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The Procurement Officer provides procurement execution support for assigned corporate and professional services requests, under the guidance and review of the Senior Manager and relevant category owners.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Support assigned sourcing events, renewals and supplier requests from intake to award recommendation, under the guidance and review of the line manager and category owners and in line with agreed priorities.

- Analyze spend and market data to support demand aggregation and procurement plans for assigned requests, following IRC standard operating procedures and agreed timelines.

- Support category owners with market assessments and supplier landscape reviews for assigned categories, including ahead of framework renewals, by compiling information on capability, pricing, lead times, risk and total cost of ownership.

- Prepare documentation for justified waiver and single-source requests and route them through the required approval process.

- Support requests for information (RFI), proposals (RFP) and tenders by coordinating bidder communications and preparing evaluation records, commercial comparisons and draft award recommendations.

- Help business teams prepare clear specifications, scopes of work and evaluation criteria.

- Support negotiation of pricing, terms, service levels and performance commitments under the direction of the line manager or category owner and within the agreed mandate.

- Identify procurement savings opportunities through price benchmarking and competitive sourcing.

- Process assigned urgent and emergency procurement requests under approved procedures, using available frameworks where appropriate and documenting required approvals.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's degree in procurement, supply chain, business administration, finance, law, or a related field.

- At least 2 years of procurement or sourcing experience, preferably in corporate and professional services or indirect procurement.

- Experience supporting competitive sourcing processes (RFQs, RFPs and tenders) and exposure to contract negotiations.

- Experience coordinating vendor due diligence and compliance risk reviews, including data protection, financial, and operational risk.

- Proficiency in Excel and ERP or procurement systems; ability to prepare accurate spend analysis and reports.

- Fluency in written and spoken English, with strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with internal stakeholders across diverse functions.

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## Skills

### Required
- procurement
- supply chain
- business administration
- finance
- law
- Excel
- ERP

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