Project Procurement & Logistics Manager

Job Description Summary
The Project Procurement & Logistics Manager serves as the primary interface for the Project Procurement Team Leader, supporting some Sourcing, Procurement, and Logistics activities across a portfolio of projects in SSA. They are contributing to ensuring procurement commitments are met-including on-time delivery, quality, and cost-in alignment with sourcing team negotiations.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the project procurement execution plan, ensuring procurement milestones, supplier lead times, and logistics activities are aligned with the project master schedule and project delivery objectives.

• Owning quality, costs (as negotiated by sourcing) and on time delivery of the material and services for the Project

• Work with cross functional teams like Engineering, Sourcing to ensure the on-time delivery of documents (drawings, quotations, etc.) required to be obtained from suppliers

• Launch Purchase Requisitions and follow up on Purchase orders across the portfolio

• Establishes the procurement schedule and periodic progress monitoring

• Ensure procurement execution activities are performed in accordance with the project procurement execution plan.

• Identify and manage supply chain risks impacting critical project equipment, implementing mitigation strategies to protect project schedule and delivery objectives.

• Supports Sourcing in obtaining technical specifications from engineering on-time.

• Participates in and/or initiates periodic project meetings with the participation of quality, lead engineering, planning, logistics, project engineering manager etc. and generates notes/actions from these meetings and follows up on the actions.

• Regularly reviews the fulfilment of suppliers against all contractual requirements in regard to Customs and duties with the support of the required functions

• Oversees claim management with the suppliers in coordination with Commodity leader/Buyer of the project

• Responsible for reporting monthly progress, supplier claims and project cost summary

• Regularly updates suppliers' cash out & project milestone recognition related to procurement

• Represents procurement in Project meetings internally and externally, if applicable

• Supports compliance with the Quality and EHS rules as applicable to the sourcing function

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or information system is preferred
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Software and automation Turnkey projects in Africa.
• Fluency in English and French Language

• Any certificate in Project management is a plus (PMP, Prince 2, SCRUM,)
• Good understanding of legal/contractual aspects of an EPC contract

• Risk management knowledge. Ability to work efficiently in cross-functional teams.

• Good communicator and teamwork capability

• Negotiation skills either with supplier base or with customers

• General knowledge of purchasing standards, policies, procedures, and Sourcing management

• Accountability, resilience, autonomy, and leadership.

• Decision making, problem solving, ability to independently resolve issues with difficult suppliers

• Basics in scheduling/planning of large and complex projects

• Technical knowledge of products purchased and power plant familiarity