Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

  ABOUT ONE ACRE FUND
Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. We provide quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural training to improve harvests. We measure our success by our ability to make farmers more prosperous: On average, farmers harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund.
We are growing quickly. We currently serve more than 800,000 farm families in Eastern and Southern Africa, with more than 7,500 full-time staff, and we aim to serve 1 million farm families by 2020.
JOB DESCRIPTION
One Acre Fund empowers farmers to grow their way out of hunger by delivering only the highest quality agricultural inputs & life-improving products on time every season. It’s the Global Sourcing team’s job to make those inputs readily available at the right price and quality when farmers need them.
One Acre Fund is growing quickly – we plan to more than triple our purchasing portfolio in the next 5 years – to make that happen, our Global Sourcing team is working hard to build efficient, streamlined systems and drive waste out of our key value chains. In 2019 alone, the team will spend over $70M on agricultural and life-improving inputs such as fertilizer, seed, and solar products sourced all over the world on behalf of 6 countries in East and Southern Africa. Doing this effectively will involve developing a flexible sourcing strategy, setting clear and measurable targets, holding the full supply chain team accountable to these ambitious targets using 100% accurate and transparent data, and implementing tight controls across the value chain to guarantee inputs make it from supplier to One Acre Fund’s warehouse on time and at the best possible price.

  Job Responsibilities:
• Sourcing Data & Reporting management: Work with the sourcing data team to automate data processes and reports for better visibility into supply chain data across the organization. More specifically:
• Drive 100% real-time, accurate data entry in SAP – this includes managing the data entry & reporting teams with clear targets performance metrics, quality checking supply chain team data regularly to catch errors, and streamlining data entry systems to reduce the risk of errors;
• Work with reporting unit to develop and manage a full suite of automated, easy-to-consume PowerBI and SSRS reports – these reports should provide the team with real time visibility into performance against targets and empower country teams to make data-driven business decisions;
• Resolve and mitigate future pain points between procurement staff and their counterparts of finance and logistics – you align with cross-department stakeholders regularly to alleviate friction caused by messy data and ensure you have a single-source of truth for decision making.
• Implement long term improvements in our data and reporting systems – improve data collection tools, data reporting, system process integration etc.
• Driving innovation in sourcing operations to eliminate waste: Work with Supply Chain Operations Manager to drive innovation across the global sourcing and local procurement teams by executing data-focused strategic projects and thinking creatively. Example projects include: Invest in data-driven forecasting and new warehousing and sourcing strategies to minimize excess inventory in regional warehouses without risking stock-outs during key seasonal deliveries;
• Automate processes, tools, and systems to reduce lead times & improve process visibility;
• Improve data visibility to empower internal clients, approvers, and purchasers to make better-informed decisions;
• Investigate projects that could save massive amounts of money such as investing in an e-tendering platform to solicit more competitive bids and make it easier to negotiate better pricing;
• Identify methods for reducing repetition, spend, and manual movements from sourcing processes – may include collaborating with warehousing, last-mile-distribution, and finance teams in addition to immediate global sourcing colleagues.
• Improve system integration & controls and use existing tools more effectively to tighten controls and simplify frequent tasks:Streamline order processing and tracking tools to reduce repetition and manual data entry;
• Identify opportunities to move processes into existing platforms – for example, you’ll be responsible for moving cash forecasting into SAP, implementing an e-tendering platform, and streamlining vendor and contract management processes through SAP;
• Manage day-day issue resolution and ticket generation for SAP request portal;
• Identify and close controls gaps in sourcing processes with buy-in from team leadership and executors to reduce possible fraud or over-spend events;
• Report on controls to systems and organizational leadership.
• Integrate supplier performance & database management capabilities into data systems
• Capacity building: Learn systems and processes across sourcing units in order to fill mission critical gaps as needed;
• Run capacity building workshops and training across the Sourcing team focused on hard skills (i.e. Microsoft suite, data presentation skills, writing for clarity, etc.);
• Work with sourcing managers to evaluate hard-skills gaps on their team required for proper succession planning and design training courses to help staff across the sourcing team master those skills;
• Identify strong talent pools to support with recruitment at all job grades.

Job Skills: Not Specified



Job Qualifications:
• We are seeking exceptional candidates with 4+ years of work experience, top performing academic background, a love for data, and a passion for reducing waste across supply chain operations.
• Prior operations or consulting experience preferred but not required if the candidate has a track record of independent problem solving and innovation in a fast growing organization. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply::

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

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