Overview
Senior Procurement Assistant, inSupply Health
Location: Dar es Salaam
East African health advice company inSupply creates scalable, sustainable, person-centred supply chain solutions.
Posted: 20 February 2025
Application’s deadline is 28 February 2025.
Position Type: Fixed Term, Two Years
Company/ Division: Supply Health
Senior Officer, Administration Logistics & Procurement – Hiring Manager
Statement:
Designed with people-centered, scalable, sustainable supply chain solutions, East African health advice company InSupply Health is Our areas of concentration are workforce development, data visibility and use optimisation, and ongoing performance enhancement. Aiming for commercial sustainability, inSupply runs as a social enterprise fulfilling our social goal. Our goal is to convert temporary supply chain fixes into lasting solutions spanning multiple projects or financing sources. Our work centres on democratising access to excellent, reasonably priced, contextualised supply chain learning and innovations so local and regional supply chain actors may enhance the performance and efficiency of their supply chains and health systems towards better health outcomes.
Founded in Nairobi with an office in Dar es Salaam, inSupply Health is linked to JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI). Working together with public and commercial sector customers, our team of vibrant local consultants designs resilient, responsive, and optimal supply chain systems delivering necessary health items such antimalarial and HIV drugs, vaccinations, and contraceptives in challenging environments. While we co-create solutions with our clients so they may own, use, and always develop their systems independently in the long run, we also pioneer creative approaches by bringing tested commercial sector techniques to adaptable setting.
Who we search for:
We are looking for a Senior Procurement Assistant to add to our vibrant team housed in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Support of the Senior Officer, Administration Logistics & Procurement in managing and implementing procurement activities falls to the Senior Procurement Assistant. This job entails helping with sourcing, buying goods and services, keeping vendor relationships, and making sure procurement procedures are compliance with corporate policies and laws, efficient and reasonably priced.
The Perfect Prospect:
The perfect applicant should be a self-driven, meticulous, extremely motivated professional passionate about ethical sourcing, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency. Having developed tools and methods to maximise performance, control vendor relationships, and guarantee compliance, they will have a strong history in procurement. They will be crucial to our activities, supporting vendor relationships, sourcing of goods and services, and guarantees of compliance with corporate standards and regulations.
Roles:
- Help to apply procurement plans to satisfy organisational requirements.
- To guarantee quality and dependability, develop and keep close ties with vendors.
- Contract Administration: Oversaw contract completion compliant with legal requirements and corporate guidelines.
- Make that every procurement activity follows pertinent organisational policies, laws, and rules.
- Cost Control: Find and assist in projects meant to increase efficiency by saving money.
- Maintaining correct records including contract, purchase orders, and vendor files, procurement documentation
- Manage personnel movement plans, flight bookings, and transportation schedules in logistically coordinate.
- Market research helps guide procurement decisions by means of market analysis.
- Identify possible hazards and assist the application of mitigating techniques.
- Working together with other teams will help you to grasp and meet their procurement demands.
- Sustainability and Ethics: Encourage ethical and sustainable methods of procurement.
- Handle extra administrative chores as asked.
- Any other assigned work?
Competencies:
The qualified applicant should have:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, business administration, supply chain management, or a closely allied discipline.
- Professional certifications in procurement—e.g., CIPS, registered under PSPTB—or certification in progress
- Experience: Minimum two years of work in a procurement capacity, ideally for NGOs or consulting.
- Knowledge of MS Dynamics or any ERP driven by MS Dynamics is a benefit.
Desired competencies:
- Excellent contract writing and negotiating abilities.
- Competency in systems and procurement tools.
- strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- proactive, driven personally, and capable of working alone.
- ethical, open, and driven towards lifelong learning.
- Flexible enough to fit shifting corporate requirements and procurement difficulties.
How to Apply?
Candidates with interest should send their cover letters and resumes at the URL below. InSuppose will go over the CVs rolling forward. Candidates on the short list will be contacted only.
Senior Procurement Assistant: (Tanzania National Only)
InSuppire works as an equal-opportunity employer. We appreciate diversity and are dedicated to establish a welcoming atmosphere grounded on mutual respect for every staff member. Age, sex, disability status, religion, ethnic origin, colour, race, marital status, or another protected attribute does not define us. Minority and female candidates are urged to apply.
The child-safe company inSupply Health puts first the safety and well-being of children for our company. Our strong recruitment policies guarantee that every employee is qualified to interact with the children under our programs.
At no point throughout its hiring procedure does InSupply demand a fee; only shortlisted candidates will be contacted via email address of a company.
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