BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability: 

• holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values

• holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition: 

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same

• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others

• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration: 

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters

• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity: 

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity: 

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Education

• Bachelors in Procurement, Logistics, General Management or related area, Master”s degree an advantage

Qualifications

• Proven experience in all technical areas of logistics operations including procurement, transport/distribution. Warehousing and stock management, fleet management, asset management
• Ability to synthesize and analyze information, and make clear, informed decisions; experience in managing high levels of data and analyzing analytics.
• Ability to build relationships quickly with a wide range of people, both internally and externally Strong planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organize a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities
• Experience in developing the capacity of procurement and supply chain staff using training, performance management frameworks and development plans.
• Experience in development and implementation of efficient logistics systems, policies and procedures.
• Excellent written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills
• Fluent in English and Ukrainian
• Excellent in office pack/SharePoint is advantage
• Willingness and ability to travel in Ukraine
• Resilient to stress and able to keep him/herself motivated also during challenging situations
• Experienced in remotely managing or supporting senior management roles is a must.
• Able to prioritize and work with limited supervision, self-motivated, resilient to stress

Experience (Required)

• Experience in managerial positions over 5+ years, with a minimum of 2 years’ working (Procurement and Supply Chain) experience with I/NGO/Development/Humanitarian Organizations
• Experience in field support is required with a possibility to travel with at list 30% of working time outside the base office

Experience (Desirable)

• Experience of working in Ukraine context is a must
• Certification/Diploma Experience working within complex/large scale country programs and in emergency response/humanitarian environments. in Humanitarian Logistics/Procurement/Supply Chain
• Formal management training
• Experience in partner management/support and proven record of building capacity and capability.