What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supply Chain Management Advisor position at UNOPS?
Job Highlight
The position is part of the project based team within the UNTSS that is helping UN system organizations modernize their supply chains through various project engagements —improving service levels, reducing costs, and enabling smarter planning and execution through well-designed processes, systems, and data through process and technical leadership in business process re-engineering, automation, systems enhancement, and data management for supply chain management while ensuring solution alignment with relevant policies, donor requirements, and operational needs.
The incumbent of this position will be a staff member of UNOPS under its full responsibility.
Role Purpose
The requirement of this role is to work with the various partners leading complex engagements, translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, and ensure data-driven decision-making across end-to-end supply chain processes. This role sits at the intersection of process, data, and technology—driving measurable improvements through business process reengineering, solution design, and data management.
Functions / Key Results Expected
Required
Experience Requirements
Required:
The position is part of the project based team within the UNTSS that is helping UN system organizations modernize their supply chains through various project engagements —improving service levels, reducing costs, and enabling smarter planning and execution through well-designed processes, systems, and data through process and technical leadership in business process re-engineering, automation, systems enhancement, and data management for supply chain management while ensuring solution alignment with relevant policies, donor requirements, and operational needs.
The incumbent of this position will be a staff member of UNOPS under its full responsibility.
Role Purpose
The requirement of this role is to work with the various partners leading complex engagements, translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, and ensure data-driven decision-making across end-to-end supply chain processes. This role sits at the intersection of process, data, and technology—driving measurable improvements through business process reengineering, solution design, and data management.
Functions / Key Results Expected
- Lead business analysis for supply chain management functions including demand and supply planning, forecasting, pipeline visibility, inventory and warehouse management and procurement and order management.
- Facilitate stakeholder consultations and consensus-building across organizations, country focal points, government counterparts and implementing partners.
- Develop and Strengthen data governance frameworks and data quality controls across master data and key SCM datasets.
- Develop and Implement supply chain information management systems for automation and improvement of supply chain management.
- Perform and support requirements gathering, configuration, and enhancement of supply chain information systems (e.g., LMIS, ERP, WMS, pipeline management tools).
- Work with ICT teams to ensure system interoperability and compliance with IT standards.
- Develop analytics solutions, dashboards, and reports to improve visibility into supply chain performance, gaps, and risks.
- Conduct root-cause analysis and support the implementation of corrective actions.
- Lead user training, knowledge transfer, SOP development, and documentation.
- Support strengthening of local institutional capacity for planning and data stewardship.
- Promote continuous improvement and end-user adoption of new digital solutions.
Required
- Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) preferably in one of the following: Computer Science, Data/Information Systems, Supply Chain, Business, Data/Information Systems, Engineering or related field with 7 years of relevant experience.
- PRINCE2 Foundation or equivalent Project Management certification is required.
- PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent is highly desirable
- Supply Chain SCOR-P certification is highly desirable
- One or more Project and IT Risk Management Certifications are highly desirable
- Business Intelligence Certifications are highly desirable
Experience Requirements
Required:
- Relevant experience is defined as experience in: Supply chain management in humanitarian, non-for-profit, public health, development, or government context.
- A minimum of 7 years of professional experience in project management, or information systems management, or change management and/or business analysis is required.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience managing one or more of different components of either deployment or an implementation of a large-scale ERP project(s).
- Experience with one or more of the following solutions and or technology such as ERP solutions, APS tools (e.g., SAP, IBP, Oracle, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder), SQL, and visualization tools (Power BI or Tableau).
- Extensive experience in implementing ERP supply chain management, logistics systems, inventory management solutions, and business process transformation is desirable.
- Operational experience managing large scale projects in multifaceted environments is Highly desirable.
- Extensive knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning systems such as Oracle, SAP and its modules, particularly supply chain related, is highly desirable.
- Extensive knowledge of business intelligence and data analytics, with heavy emphasis on data management is highly desirable.
- Experience in the development of solutions for the automation of repetitive tasks that are coordinated across distinct groups to improve productivity, service quality and control is desirable.
- Experience with reporting technologies and performance monitoring is desirable.
- Prior experience and ability to manage large, diverse teams is desirable.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are desirable.
- Strong analytical and digital skills are desirable