Supply Chain Expert (ssa, L10)

Organizational Context

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives and building a pathway to peace and prosperity. WFP utilizes food assistance to support people recovering from conflict, disasters, and climate change impacts. We are committed to a diverse, skilled, and inclusive workforce, operating with integrity, collaboration, commitment, humanity, and inclusion.

Job Purpose

WFP seeks a Supply Chain Expert to provide specialist advice and analytics for the transition of Egypt's National School Feeding Programme from biscuits to hot meals. The role involves designing an effective and integrated supply chain approach, covering operational guidance, infrastructure mapping, procurement, and supply chain strengthening. The expert will analyze market functionality, propose delivery models, develop procurement and supply chain strategies aligned with national regulations, and provide detailed supply chain inputs for costing and financial models. This position will contribute to a scalable, cost-efficient national hot meal model, ensuring food safety and quality, and will involve developing a training program for national stakeholders and supporting the phased start-up and scale-up of the initiative.

Responsibilities

The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking a Supply Chain Expert to support Egypt's transition from biscuit-based school meals to a national hot meal program. This role involves providing specialist advice and analytics to design an effective and integrated supply chain approach. The expert will collaborate with the Ministry of Education and Technical Education (MoETE) to map school, community, and market capacities, and conduct a feasibility analysis for the transition. Responsibilities include providing technical guidance on data collection for national mapping, analyzing local market functionality, and developing on-site, central kitchen, and hybrid delivery models. The expert will also lead the development of procurement and supply chain strategy options, provide inputs for costing and financial models, and draft supply chain sections for the National Operational Manual. Additionally, they will assess technical capacity, develop a training program for national stakeholders, and support supply chain readiness for the program's phased start-up. This involves validating assumptions, advising on tendering, identifying operational bottlenecks, and contributing to lessons-learned notes. The role requires extensive experience in supply chain management, logistics, procurement, and operational design, with a strong understanding of food safety and quality standards. The goal is to ensure a scalable, cost-efficient, and sustainable national hot school meals model that improves access to nutritious meals for millions of children.

Work Experience

Requires 8-10 years of professional experience in supply chain, logistics, procurement, or operations design. This includes at least 5 years in senior technical or advisory roles. Proven experience is needed in designing, implementing, or improving end-to-end supply chain and service delivery systems, covering areas like procurement, food service operations, facility design, logistics, contract management, costing, and operational planning.

Skills

Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Procurement, Operations Design, Costing, Financial Modelling, Contract Management, Service Delivery Systems, Food Safety, Quality Assurance, Catering Operations, Public Sector Support, Policy Development, Strategy Development, Operational Planning

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