Job Category: Supply Chain
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Job Title: Global Supply Chain Planning Manager (maternity cover)
Team: Global Supply Chain
Reports To: Global Head of Supply Chain Planning and Capability
Contract Length: Fixed Term (maternity cover until Dec 2025/ Jan 2026)
Grade: P4
Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location.
Time Zone: Any
Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment.
Language Requirements: English
International Travel Requirements: Yes, up to 10%
Team and Job Purpose
To provide guidance and support to country offices in supply chain planning, procurement, warehousing, distribution, and fleet management, enabling effective and efficient operations while ensuring compliance with regulatory and donor requirements. To deliver training and development opportunities in supply chain expertise for staff in country offices and partners, enhancing local capabilities and fostering supplier sustainability and CO2 emission reduction programs. To support country offices with international procurement, supplier registration, and emergency response management, strengthening overall supply chain resilience and performance.
Role purpose
Under the strategic leadership of the Global Head of Supply Chain Planning and Capability, this role will manage the delivery of continuous improvement of supply chain demand forecasting and supply planning. The Supply Chain function (Planning, Procurement, Warehousing, Distribution and Fleet) at Save the Children supports programmatic annual spend of c. $400m across
55 diverse and complex Countries in 5 regions. This role will establish standardised supply chain planning processes, proactively driving progressive strategic and tactical decision-making to enable enhanced responsiveness globally. The planning processes will be applied for both developmental and emergency response programmes and will standardise the ways of working with senior stakeholders in Country Offices and cross-functional global teams in these areas to develop robust and comprehensive end-to-end supply chain planning approaches.
In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder may be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.
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