Head of Supply Chain

Job Description

Head of Supply Chain | World Food Programme

The Tone:
This is a Regular Consultant Level II role at World Food Programme, located in Kathmandu, Nepal. The World Food Programme is the leading humanitarian organization dedicated to saving and changing lives by delivering food assistance in emergencies and collaborating with communities to enhance food security, nutrition, resilience, and sustainable development. This role is critical for leading integrated supply chain activities that address immediate emergency response and recovery requirements, while simultaneously strengthening sustainable national systems for future preparedness and response.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Regular Consultant, 11 months (Extendable)
• Location: In-person Kathmandu, Nepal

• Team: Supply Chain Delivery function of the WFP Nepal Country Office, reporting to the Deputy Country Director or designate.
• Mission: To manage and provide specialist leadership for integrated supply chain activities that meet immediate emergency response and recovery requirements while strengthening sustainable national systems for future preparedness and response.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Lead Strategy: Guide the planning, implementation, and monitoring of integrated supply chain delivery for emergency response, early recovery, resilience, and Country Strategic Plan priorities.
• Manage Emergencies: Provide technical and operational leadership during emergencies and post-emergency recovery, including rapid assessments, response planning, and scale-up.
• Strengthen Capacity: Design and implement country capacity strengthening initiatives in supply chain and emergency preparedness based on jointly identified institutional needs and national priorities.
• Oversee Operations: Plan and manage procurement, contracting, transport, warehousing, inventory, distribution, and service-delivery activities, ensuring quality, timeliness, and compliance.
• Manage Humanitarian Staging Areas: Provide strategic and operational oversight, ensuring effective governance, safe operations, accurate inventory management, and readiness for activation.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Advanced University degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Engineering, Economics, Business Administration, Emergency Management, International Development or a relevant field; or a First University degree with additional related professional experience and/or training.
• Experience: Minimum of 6 years of progressively responsible professional experience in supply chain management, logistics, procurement, emergency preparedness and response, humanitarian operations, country capacity strengthening, market systems, or related fields. Experience managing substantive projects, teams, or operational portfolios in complex environments is required.
• Skills: Strong knowledge of integrated supply chain planning and operations; emergency preparedness, response, and recovery; procurement and logistics processes; warehousing and inventory management; market assessment and cash-based transfer (CBT) support; institutional capacity strengthening; project management; performance and risk management; partnership development; and clear communication with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Bonus: Experience managing integrated supply chain operations, including procurement, transport, and warehousing; experience in emergency preparedness, contingency planning, and rapid humanitarian response; experience working with government institutions on institutional strengthening; experience managing or supporting Humanitarian Staging Areas; experience conducting market or supply chain assessments and supporting CBT interventions; experience developing partnerships with UN agencies, NGOs, and private-sector actors; experience supervising professional staff and leading multidisciplinary teams; experience contributing to resource mobilization, donor engagement, and technical proposals.