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

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No