Roving Supply Chain Advisor – Field Support (Global Remote) ENGLISH & ARABIC REQ

Note: This is a Global Remote role with a preference for candidates who are based in countries where CRS has a legal presence.

Job Summary

The Roving Supply Chain Advisor provides advice, guidance, and support for all Supply Chain Management (SCM) activities and initiatives as assigned – both through country-specific support deployments, as well as work on global initiatives. This includes supporting the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of agile, compliant, and efficient SCM systems that support high-quality programming. This role works closely with countries, including regular field travel, as well as the Global Supply Chain Management (GSCM) team to align regional operations with global strategies, systems, and standards. The incumbent’s technical knowledge, advice, and guidance will ensure effectiveness and efficiency in SCM systems and application of the principles of stewardship, integrity, transparency, and accountability.

Roles and Key Responsibilities

Strategic Input and Engagement

• Support the development and implementation of agency-wide strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in supply chain that effectively engage partners, donors and governments.
• Provide input on supply chain aspects of proposal development as part of assigned proposal development teams. Contribute to the development of SCM Plans, Commodity Calculators, Procurement Plans, and other proposal inputs.
• Contribute to the development and rollout of digital supply chain solutions that improve the speed, accountability, and integrity of supply chain activities.
• May represent CRS at regional planning and coordination meetings and forums on SCM. Build relationships with donors, peer organizations, and other stakeholders.

Supply Chain Operations

• Support country programs through regular deployments as Acting Supply Chain Manager, Acting Operations Manager, or similar roles. These deployments may be related to coverage of vacancies, new project start-ups, or emergency response activities.
• Collaborate with operations and programming leads in countries on implementing and strengthening supply chain systems, processes, and policies to meet all programming needs and donor requirements, including logistics, procurement, warehousing, and fleet management.
• Ensure effective and quality use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems (e.g., Oracle) for supply chain operations. Support countries in leveraging system capabilities for planning, execution, and reporting.
• Promote the use of supply chain performance metrics and KPIs to drive continuous improvement, inform decision-making, and ensure accountability in procurement, logistics, warehousing, and fleet management.

Capacity Building and Knowledge Sharing

• Contribute to knowledge management and learning through the sharing of ideas, solutions, and difficulties and the capacity to detect, analyze, and respond quickly to small deficiencies.
• Contribute to the capacity strengthening within assigned region by helping to develop and facilitate learning and training strategies, workshops and conferences, and mentoring staff.

Compliance and Risk Management

• Support countries in addressing audit findings and implementing corrective actions.
• Promote compliance with donor regulations, CRS policies, and international standards.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proficient in MS Office packages and information management systems.
• Strong knowledge of general procurement and trading policies and regulations, international import/export legislation, and customs regulations. Understanding of Generally Accepted Commodity Accountability Principles (GACAP).
• Technical expertise in warehouse operations and inventory control: storage standards (FIFO/FEFO), cycle counting, stock reconciliation and root-cause analysis, ABC analysis, batch/lot and expiry management, warehouse layout and space utilization, loss/shrinkage prevention
• Experience in mentoring, coaching, facilitation and training applying adult learning principles and practices.
• Strong relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including via Outlook and Teams. Responsive and proactive in a remote working environment.
• Strategic, analytical, organizational, and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment calls.
• Strong presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills.
• Ability to leverage a proactive, resourceful and results-oriented mindset.

Required Languages: Fluency in English required; fluency in Arabic strongly preferred. Fluency in French or Spanish is desirable.

Travel: Must be willing and able to travel up to 50%.

Supervisory Responsibilities: No

Originally posted on Himalayas