Roving Supply Chain Advisor – Field Support, English, Arabic Required

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Assist in the development and execution of comprehensive supply chain strategies, standards, tools, and best practices across the agency.

• Provide essential supply chain insights for proposal development, including Supply Chain Management (SCM) Plans, Commodity Calculators, Procurement Plans, and additional proposal components.

• Contribute to innovative digital supply chain solutions that enhance speed, accountability, and integrity.

• Represent CRS at regional planning and coordination meetings and forums as necessary.

• Foster relationships with donors, peer organizations, and other relevant stakeholders.

• Offer support to country programs by taking on roles such as Acting Supply Chain Manager, Acting Operations Manager, or equivalent positions.

• Assist with filling vacancies, initiating new projects, and responding to emergency situations.

• Collaborate with country operations and programming leaders to enhance logistics, procurement, warehousing, and fleet management systems.

• Ensure the effective utilization of ERP systems like Oracle for planning, execution, and reporting purposes.

• Advocate for the use of supply chain metrics and KPIs to drive continuous improvement, informed decision-making, and accountability.

• Contribute to knowledge management, learning initiatives, capacity-building efforts, workshops, conferences, and mentoring of staff.

• Aid countries in addressing audit findings and executing necessary corrective actions.

• Ensure compliance with donor regulations, CRS policies, and international standards.

• Report directly to the GSCM Director.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field.

• At least 7 years of progressive experience in international supply chain, logistics, or procurement.

• Familiarity with ERP systems; Oracle experience is preferred.

• Proficient in MS Office applications and information management systems.

• Strong understanding of general procurement and trading policies, international import/export legislation, and customs regulations.

• Knowledge of Generally Accepted Commodity Accountability Principles (GACAP).

• Technical expertise in warehouse operations and inventory control, including FIFO/FEFO, cycle counting, stock reconciliation, root-cause analysis, ABC analysis, batch/lot and expiry management, warehouse layout and space utilization, and loss/shrinkage prevention.

• Experience in mentoring, coaching, facilitation, and training, applying adult learning principles and practices.

• Excellent relationship management skills with the ability to influence individuals not directly supervised.

• Strong written and verbal communication abilities, including proficiency in Outlook and Teams.

• Strategic thinking, analytical, organizational, and systems thinking capabilities.

• Fluency in English is mandatory.

• Willingness and ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

• Legal authorization to work in the location where the position is based is required.

• Expatriate roles or positions that necessitate frequent travel outside the home country will require pre-employment medical clearance.

• Preferred qualifications include a Master’s degree, professional certifications such as CIPS or APICS, and experience managing Global Fund, USG food aid, or other large-scale donor programs.

• Fluency in Arabic is strongly preferred; proficiency in French or Spanish is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• U.S.-based staff receive medical, dental, life insurance, and vision coverage.

• U.S.-based staff benefit from a generous retirement savings plan.

• Benefits packages for candidates employed outside the U.S. are determined based on the country of employment/in-country office.

• Enjoy a collaborative, mission-driven work culture.

• Equal opportunity employer.