Closing date: Sunday, 22 February 2015
Vacancy code: VA/2015/B0012/6800
Position title: Sourcing and Innovation Team Manager
Level: ICS-11
Department/office: Sustainable Procurement
Duty station: Copenhagen, Denmark
Contract type: International ICA
Contract level: IICA-3
Duration: 2 years, renewable
Application period: 09-Feb-2015 to 23-Feb-2015
United Nations Core Values: Integrity, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity
Background Information - UNOPS
UNOPS mission is to serve people in need by expanding the ability of the United Nations, governments and other partners to manage projects, infrastructure and procurement in a sustainable and efficient manner.
Within these three core areas of expertise, UNOPS provides its partners with advisory, implementation and transactional services, with projects ranging from building schools and hospitals, to procuring goods and services and training local personnel. UNOPS works closely with governments and communities to ensure increased economic, social and environmental sustainability for the projects we support, with a focus on developing national capacity.
Working in some of the world's most challenging environments, our vision is to advance sustainable implementation practices in development, humanitarian and peacebuilding contexts, always satisfying or surpassing partner expectations.
We employ more than 6,000 personnel and on behalf of our partners create thousands more work opportunities in local communities. Through our headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark and a network of offices, we oversee activities in more than 80 countries.
Background Information - Job-specific
UNOPS offers competitive compensation and benefits package and working for UNOPS your income is tax exempt in Denmark. However, it may be taxable in your own country. Contract duration: 2 years with possibility to extend. Note that it is a standard procedure at UNOPS to issue contracts up to max of 2 years at a time.
Duty Station - UN City
The overall aim of the Sustainable Procurement Practice Group is to ensure sustainability in all activities, including in partnerships, provide speedy and quality advice and services by leveraging on existing global knowledge, building and sharing knowledge further, and by increasing revenue through focus on commodities, economies of scale, and taking advantage of automation solutions to reach out to partners.
The purpose of UNOPS Procurement Operations Unit is to lead the strategic approach for all procurement and supply chain activities to ensure the goal of sustainability and to achieve process simplification and best value, leveraging volumes and shaping markets through proper planning, the establishment of commodity teams, a focus on results across the global organization. Further, the Procurement Operations Unit has the responsibility to support business development with special attention to optimizing business support through electronic catalogues and will ensure the procurement function across UNOPS is conducted with a transparent, consistent and efficient process from end to end underpinning it with the systems, analytics, agreements and expertise to facilitate best in class provision of services both within and outside the organization. Collaboration and outreach across UNOPS delivery practices and operational centres will be critical to success.
The purpose of UNOPS Sourcing function is to provide leadership regarding supplier management, sourcing methodology, solicitation practices and operationalizing sustainable procurement. The Team is to introduce procurement planning and supply positioning to support a more strategic assessment of procurement actions. The team is to manage and coordinate multi-disciplinary commodity teams to achieve best value solutions for strategic goods/services and provide subject matter expertise to support UNOPS global procurement in key areas. In addition the team will undertake procurements where appropriate and will lead the procurements for common goods and services. The team's responsibility will cover the end to end procurement, supply chain and contract management processes.
Functional Responsibilities
The Team Manager (Sourcing Innovation) is expected to manage the unit's performance, to manage the team members, and be responsible for the unit deliverables based on the unit's activities explained above.
The Team Manager is also expected to: 1. Provide expertise, leadership, support and advice on sustainable procurement of goods, services and works through
2. Provide technical advice related to sustainable procurement
3. Ensure Supplier management and development
Competencies
Representational and Client-focused
Managerial and Teamwork
Knowledge Management and Learning
Ability to Analyze
Communication
Planning and Organizing
Education/Experience/Language requirements
Education/Experience
Language
Contract type, level and duration
Contract type: International Individual Contractor Agreement (IICA)
Contract level: IICA3 UNOPS offers competitive compensation and benefits package and working for UNOPS your income is tax exempt in Denmark. However, it may be taxable in your own country
Contract duration: 2 years with possibility to extend. Note that it is a standard procedure at UNOPS to issue contracts up to max of 2 years at a time.
Duty Station - UN City
For more details about the ICA contractual modality, please follow this link: www.unops.org/english/Opportunities/job-opportunities/what-we-offer/Pages/Individual-Contractor-Agreements.aspx
Additional Considerations
It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.
Application information: https://gprs.unops.org/Pages/ViewVacancy/VADetails.aspx?id=6800