DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

24 November 2026-23:59-GMT+01:00 West Africa Standard Time (Kinshasa)

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• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

Position Title: Supply Chain Officer - Planning

Contract Type: International Consultant

Level: Level II

Unit: Supply Chain

Duty Station: Kinshasa, DRC

Duration: 11-months

1. Background and purpose of the assignment

WFP DRC operates in a complex environment marked by protracted conflict, recurrent displacement, access constraints, volatile markets, long and variable supply corridors, and rapidly changing emergency requirements. Reliable end-to-end planning is essential to align food requirements, available resources, sourcing decisions, procurement lead times, stock positioning, corridor capacity and delivery priorities.

The consultant will strengthen integrated supply chain planning and optimization for WFP DRC. The role will establish a shared operational pipeline, provide forward-looking analysis, develop sourcing and delivery scenarios, improve corridor and capacity planning, and translate data into timely management decisions. The assignment will also institutionalize planning routines, tools and skills within the Country Office and field operations.

2. Scope of work and key responsibilities

2.1 Integrated food pipeline planning

• Lead a cross-functional supply planning taskforce with representatives from Supply Chain, Programme, BPU, Partnerships, VAM and field offices.
• Maintain a rolling operational food pipeline with a minimum six-month horizon and an indicative twelve-month outlook, by commodity, activity, location and month.
• Consolidate requirements provided by Programme against stocks, confirmed incoming supplies, open purchase orders, call-forwards, in-transit quantities, ETAs, lead times, best-before dates and projected shortfalls.
• Ensure consistency between the operational pipeline and BPU resource and corporate pipeline views, including grant restrictions, TDDs, FTC and funding constraints.
• Prepare exception-based recommendations on allocations, stock rotation, call-forwards, prioritization and mitigation of projected shortfalls.

2.2 Food supply, sourcing and delivery strategy

• Develop and periodically update sourcing and delivery strategies covering local, regional and international procurement, GCMF options and in-kind contributions.
• Assess cost, lead time, quality, market capacity, seasonality, supplier performance, funding eligibility and operational risk when recommending sourcing options.
• Conduct what-if analyses for changes in demand, funding, access, supplier performance, corridor disruption or emergency scale-up.
• Provide consolidated recommendations to management on when, where and how much to source and position.

2.3 Corridor, capacity and network optimization

• Monitor and analyse key corridors serving DRC, including regional and international routes, border crossings, ports, inland transport, warehousing and transshipment constraints.
• Project transport and storage capacity requirements and identify bottlenecks affecting delivery timelines.
• Analyse corridor performance, landed cost, lead time, reliability and operational risk, and recommend feasible alternatives or contingency routes.
• Support preparedness and pre-positioning plans for seasonal access constraints, conflict-related disruptions and emergency response.

2.4 Analytics, tools and management reporting

• Use PRISMA and other relevant WFP systems and data sources to strengthen visibility, data quality and evidence-based decisions.
• Produce concise monthly management products, including pipeline status, shortfall outlook, sourcing actions, ETAs, corridor risks, capacity constraints and decisions required.
• Develop practical dashboards, analytical models and standard templates for Actual versus Plan, lead-time, cost-to-serve, stock coverage and exception monitoring.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior management and relevant governance forums.

2.5 Institutionalization and capacity transfer

• Document the integrated planning process, roles, data sources, decision rights, meeting cadence and escalation thresholds.
• Coach Supply Chain and cross-functional focal points in pipeline analysis, scenario planning, corridor analysis, PRISMA and management reporting.
• Establish sustainable handover arrangements so that routine products and processes can be maintained by WFP DRC staff after the consultancy.

3. Performance indicators

• Rolling pipeline updated and reviewed at least monthly, with material exceptions escalated promptly.
• Projected shortfalls, stock-out risks and BBD/TDD exposure identified early enough to support management action.
• Sourcing and corridor recommendations supported by cost, lead-time and risk analysis.
• Improved reconciliation and consistency across Programme requirements, BPU resource visibility and Supply Chain operational data.
• Planning tools, SOPs and reporting routines adopted by designated WFP DRC focal points.

5. Qualifications and experience

Education: Advanced university degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Data Science, Business Analytics, Economics or a related field.

Experience: At least five (5) years of relevant postgraduate professional experience in supply chain planning, S&OP, material or distribution planning, procurement, logistics, network optimization or humanitarian operations. Experience in complex emergency settings is highly desirable.

Technical skills: Strong quantitative analysis, scenario modelling, pipeline management and visualization skills. Experience with PRISMA or comparable planning tools, advanced Excel and BI tools is desirable.

Competencies: Ability to structure ambiguous problems, communicate concise recommendations, influence cross-functional stakeholders and deliver under tight deadlines.

Languages: Fluency in English and French (Level C), oral and written, is required.

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