Overview
The Procurement Officer will plan, develop, and manage all procurement and contractual aspects for the United Nations Environment Programme. The role involves advising on procurement issues, managing bid evaluations, and formulating strategies for complex projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Plans, develops and manages all procurement and contractual aspects of requests.
- Advises requisitioning units and recipient entities on procurement issues.
- Prepares/oversees preparation and distribution of invitations to tender and manages/conducts bid/proposal evaluations.
- Liaises and cooperates with service providers on procurement requests.
- Formulates strategies and designs innovative solutions for complex procurement projects.
- Establishes and maintains work programme and schedule for ongoing and planned contracts.
- Leads corporate procurement planning activities.
- Develops and delivers training and capacity building sessions on procurement.
- Coordinates with UNEP service providers on procurement and monitors KPI compliance.
- Conducts market research and analyzes data on commodity situation, production patterns, and availability of goods and services.
- Identifies new technologies and products/services, evaluates potential supply sources.
- Oversees adherence to contractual agreements, recommends amendments and extensions.
- Prepares procurement-related documents, contracts, communications, guidelines, instructions, and training material.
- Provides guidance to, and may supervise, new/junior staff.
- Conducts risk assessments and due diligence reviews on implementing partners.
- Supports implementing partner assessment and monitoring framework activities.
- Collects and analyzes data to identify trends and provide insights through data visualization.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in procurement, contract management, procurement related to implementing partners, contract administration or logistics and supply chain management or related area is required.
- A minimum of two (2) consecutive years of experience in conducting international tender exercises to award contracts, during the last five years is required.
- Experience in reviewing procurement plans and conducting due diligence for implementing partners is required.
- Experience in sourcing, cleaning and preparing data, selection and developing visualization/metrics procurement, and/or supply chain management that enable easy communication/interpretation by the users is desirable.
- A minimum of two (2) years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, public administration, commerce, engineering, law or a related field. A first-level university degree in combination with two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is desirable. Professional certification in supply chain such as Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply certification (CIPS Level 4) is required.
