Supply Chain Planner

About the role

The ICRC is recruiting a Supply Chain Planner in Sanaa, Yemen, on a maximum-term contract of one year (100% workload, regular role, job level B3). The planner ensures that all forecasts are received, registered and matched with firm demand, and that goods are sourced according to an agreed plan. The post is open only to Yemeni nationals.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor material requirements planning (MRP) suggestions, analyse supply and demand and recommend improvements to forecasting accuracy.
• Decide how orders are filled according to the delegation's stocking strategy, service requests and the logistics team, using consolidation and partial deliveries.
• Create draft purchase orders, order transfers, inter-site orders and work orders from the MRP system, and set and update MRP parameters and item settings in JD Edwards.
• Lead the demand-planning process for the delegation and its sub-delegations, contribute to the sourcing plan and define the supply network.
• Own the delegation's consolidated demand figures, propose and monitor buffer stock, and raise awareness of the costs of the stock-management policy.
• Contribute to the country-level stock-management policy, aligned with the Regional Supply-Chain Planner and taking operational constraints into account.
• Follow up work-related messages and correspondence, share information on humanitarian trends, represent the ICRC appropriately and take responsibility for own professional development.

Required profile

• University degree or equivalent experience.
• Typically six to nine years of overall professional experience.
• Experience in supply chain management, planning and forecasting.
• Good command of English.
• Yemeni nationality only.

Required skills

• Computer proficiency and ability to run specialized software.
• Good command of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
• An additional vocational training in health sciences is an asset.