Overview
The role leads the Field Office Logistics Hub, ensuring effective support to operations and supervising the logistics team. It involves managing dispatch, prepositioning exercises, and overseeing supply chain processes for food commodities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, motivate and develop the logistics team, providing coaching and capacity building.
- Ensure timely dispatch vs plan and successful prepositioning exercises.
- Oversee the implementation of supply chain processes for dispatch, delivery and tracking of food commodities.
- Monitor risks and trends affecting in-kind food deliveries and propose solutions.
- Collaborate with Logistics Officers in other Field offices and provide strategic/operational support.
- Manage the Sudan crises response food commodities and coordinate river/road movement.
- Lead and monitor the local purchase Sorghum project.
- Coordinate Logistics, fleet and warehouse management support services.
- Ensure operational excellence in logistics activities in accordance with set guidelines and procedures.
- Ensure assurance measures are implemented correctly and in accordance with SOPs, KPIs and guidance.
- Regularly visit warehouses and conduct Physical Inventory Counts.
- Maintain regular meetings to discuss pipeline forecast, available stocks, expected arrivals and shortfalls.
- Pursue an increase of On Demand Services to other partners.
- Report quarterly on progress.
- Define the scope and objectives of Logistics projects.
- Proactively pursue funds mobilization and external partner engagement.
- Establish strong coordination and collaboration with Country Office Logistics and other functional units.
- Ensure logistics engagement in gathering market intelligence and retailer/wholesaler performance.
- Manage the retail/wholesale relationship to help ensure adequate supply to markets.
- Early identification of risks and trends affecting CBT delivery and propose mitigation measures.
- Develop plans aligned with CBT implementation timelines.
- Conduct cost-benefit analyses comparing in-kind vs. CBT vs. hybrid models.
- Cultivate professional working relations with local authorities and other external stakeholders.
- Address and manage all operational challenges, reports and incidents.
- Provide key strategic inputs and operational updates for Field Office and Country Office reports.
- Undertake regular field visits/support missions as required.
- Perform other relevant duties as assigned.
Required Experience
- Minimum 3 years of progressively postgraduate international professional in commercial or humanitarian transportation sectors, supporting complex operations, strategic planning, and food supply chain management in a hardship duty station or emergency operation (for Master's degree holders).
- At least 5 years of above experience (for Bachelor's degree holders).
- Experience in the management of CBT operations including assurance of supply, price reduction measures and coordination with internal and external stakeholders.
- Proven capacity in effective relationship building with government and other access stakeholders, private sector, and humanitarian/development partners.
- Experience of emergency operations and multimodal transport i.e. the management of integrated air, river and road food transport operations.
- Experience monitoring and reporting on transport and freight market conditions and trends.
- Experience in warehouse and commodity management.
- Experience working with corporate systems (databases, software).
- Experience in supervising staff and building national staff capacity.
Qualifications
• Advanced University degree in Transport, Economics, Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business Management or other related field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.
