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 

Required Qualifications

• 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

Desired Characteristics

• 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 

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