Procurement & Project Management at CloudFactory

Description

You will enjoy CloudFactory if creating meaningful work for 1 million people in the developing world excites you. You will feel right at home if you value building relationships, can be described as both humble and courageous in the same sentence, and are passionate about pooling individual talents to win as one unified team.

Join us and make a difference in the world!

The Role

• Your role will be global and will involve different areas that will help CloudFactory grow and create opportunities for thousands of people in Nepal, Kenya and the Philippines.
• You’re someone who has high integrity, and the diligence, persistence, and organizational skills to work in and lead some aspects of the Operations team, while continuously working to improve our service delivery.
• You’re a Specialist, who has experience in budgeting and forecasting and is highly skilled in the following Operations Focus Areas:
• Procurement: You have a background in Procurement, and you have been involved in doing a needs assessment with respective stakeholders in which specifications are developed and have experience in facilitating and fulfilling all products/service requirements of the business. You have an eye for detail and have experience in conducting Vendor Reviews and Audits.
• You have a knack for negotiating and experience in Vendor Evaluation, Relationship, Management and Retention. You have a proven track record of working with vendors to establish partnerships (local and global) to ensure that economies of scale are being leveraged.
• Project Management: You have demonstrated experience in running multiple projects at once. Moreover, you should be great at multitasking priorities in a fast-paced role and have a demonstrated ability to collaborate across many teams and/or functions.

Responsibilities

• You can contribute towards company strategy and can execute against operational strategy. The Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Creating an efficient process by centralizing purchasing services for the company and providing leadership in the procurement function.
• Realizing significant cost savings, increased quality and improved service
• Maintaining high legal, ethical and professional standards.
• Working together with the relevant stakeholders to get the suggested objectives and collaborating with them to set realistic and achievable goals, budgets, and timelines.
• Breaking projects into manageable tasks and documenting a clear process of assigned deliverables, milestones and deadlines.
• Using the set quality standards as benchmarks, to ensure that all expected quality standards of the deliverable and the overall project are met.
• Establish KPIs relevant to the focus area and devise ways to efficiently track and report them to continuously improve operational excellence.
• Using data points and specialist research, to provide reports and recommendations to leadership on Procurement and Project Management strategy and initiatives.