Omni-Channel Procurement Project Specialist

About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. Our 8,000+ team is drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. With operations across six core countries in Africa, we make farmers more prosperous by providing quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural training to improve harvests. On average, our farmers harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund. 

To learn more about our work, take a look at our Why Work Here blog for more information.

About the Role

The Global Sourcing team brings high-quality, life-changing inputs to our clients as cost efficiently as possible. We source over $70M worth of inputs to One Acre Fund’s regional warehouses across 7 countries. As a team, we develop a flexible sourcing strategy to guarantee inputs make it from supplier to OAF warehouse at the best possible price and quality.

To increase One Acre Fund’s impact to 10 million farmers by 2030, we are accelerating program extensions and rolling out an omni-channel approach. This makes us operate in a more dynamic environment with all-year-long purchases and parallel demand flows. This requires our processes, tools and practices to become more agile and our prices to be market competitive with agrovets. Are you ready to design, develop, pilot and implement what is needed to do input procurement for a variety of channels?

Responsibilities

As Omni-channel Procurement Project Specialist you will:

• Adapt procurement processes, systems and tools to serve different channels more effectively.
• Build a market price benchmarking tool and integrate it into the purchasing operations.
• Shadow, support and validate continuously your work with the different product procurement teams and country program teams. Solutions should be scalable to all countries and all products.
• Report into the Global Sourcing Supply Chain team lead who coaches and supports you in driving strategic projects forward.

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• Experience in project management and familiar navigating data sources and systems
• Experience in agriculture is preferred not strictly required
• Organized approach to work, effective in driving change and efficiency mindset
• Fluent English is required

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Nairobi, Kenya

Benefits

Health insurance, paid time off 

Eligibility

This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Kenya. 

Application Deadline

8 June 2021

One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here ([email protected]), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.