Procurement Associate – Supply Chain Operations

Job Description

Procurement Associate_SC6 | World Food Programme

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at World Food Programme, located in Monrovia, Liberia. WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives in emergencies and fostering peace, stability, and prosperity through food assistance. This position is crucial for providing specialized support to goods and services procurement and logistics operations, ensuring the efficient and compliant movement and distribution of essential health commodities across all fifteen counties of Liberia. The role directly contributes to uninterrupted commodity availability and effective last-mile delivery, impacting millions of people.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Location: In-person – Monrovia, Liberia
• Mission: To provide operational coordination and specialized support to procurement, logistics, transportation, warehousing, and distribution activities, ensuring timely acquisition and delivery of goods and services while maintaining compliance with established supply chain policies, procedures, and performance standards.
• Tech Stack: ERP, supply chain information management systems

What You’ll Actually Do
• Oversee Logistics: Coordinate and supervise the nationwide distribution of essential medicines and health commodities, ensuring timely delivery, transporter performance, and traceability from receipt to final destination.
• Manage Procurement: Conduct end-to-end procurement processes for goods and services, including sourcing, market assessments, competitive bidding, supplier negotiations, and contract administration, ensuring compliance and value for money.
• Coordinate Supply Chain: Facilitate operational planning and information sharing among internal teams (programme, logistics, finance) and external partners to ensure effective supply chain execution and contribute to improvement initiatives.
• Monitor Performance: Maintain accurate procurement and logistics records, collect and analyze operational data, and prepare comprehensive status and performance reports for management updates and continuous improvement recommendations.
• Ensure Compliance & Mitigate Risk: Monitor procurement and logistics risks, propose mitigation measures, and ensure strict adherence to organizational procurement, logistics, financial, and contractual requirements to promote accountability and transparency.

The Must-Haves
• Background: University degree in Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Logistics, Business Administration, Operations Management, or a related field.
• Experience: Minimum six (6) years of progressively responsible professional experience in procurement, logistics, supply chain, transportation, warehousing, or distribution operations, including supplier management and contract administration.
• Skills: Knowledge of procurement and logistics principles, strong planning and coordination abilities, data analysis and reporting skills, good negotiation and stakeholder management, and effective problem-solving under pressure.
• Bonus: Experience with ERP and supply chain information management systems.