Supply Chain Manager

Médecins Sans Frontières; Australia; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Australia is seeking a Supply Chain Manager to lead the program’s logistics from procurement to delivery, ensuring efficiency and compliance across local and international suppliers.

You will coordinate stock management, support clinical teams, and drive procurement strategies while supervising logistics staff in a humanitarian context.

Qualifications

• Certificate/diploma or higher in logistics/transport, procurement, supply chain.
• Minimum 2 years of professional experience in a logistics/supply chain role.
• Experience in people management and supervision.
• Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Excel.
• Available for assignment for a minimum of nine months or longer.
• Previous NGO or humanitarian supply chain experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage the project’s logistics supply chain end-to-end.
• Analyse prices and monitor deliveries with local and international suppliers.
• Coordinate with freight forwarders and customs clearance procedures.
• Oversee stock management and procurement planning for the project.
• Train and supervise logistics teams and local/international staff.
• Provide logistical support to medical teams.
• Collaborate with project coordinators to define operational logistics objectives.
• Handle tendering, contracts and evaluations.

Skills

People management

Procurement

Inventory management

Education

Certificate/diploma or higher in logistics/transport, procurement, supply chain

Tools

Microsoft Excel

MS Office

Job description

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which we create and meet, the Gadigal of the Eora Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

Supply Chain Manager

The supply chain manager is responsible for the program's logistics supply chain in its entirety: analysing prices, quality control, placing orders with local and international suppliers, monitoring deliveries of supplies and equipment, managing relations with freight forwarders and customs clearance procedures, stock management, organising procurement for the project and tracking consumption.

ACTIVITIES

• Management of the supply chain required by the project: stock management, local and international procurement, monitoring and warehousing deliveries of supplies and equipment, procurement.
• Supervising and training logistics teams and locally employed and/or international personnel.
• Providing logistical support to medical teams.
• Working with medical teams and project coordinators to define operational strategies and logistical objectives of a project.
• Administrative responsibilities associated with the above tasks including tendering, contracts, evaluations.
• Certificate/diploma or higher in logistics/transport, procurement, supply chain management, management, international business administration or a related discipline with a specialisation in logistics/supply chain.
• Minimum 2 years of professional experience in a logistics/supply chain role with responsibilities in one or more of the following domains: procurement, supply chain including cold chain, warehousing, transport, customs (import/export), demand planning and inventory management, supply information systems, supply processes synchronisation.
• Professional experience in people management, supervision and administration.
• Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office applications (in particular excel, word).
• Available for assignment for a minimum of nine months or longer.
• Previous professional experience in supply in an NGO and/or in the humanitarian supply chain is an asset.

MSF Medical-Operational Guidelines

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) develops medical-operational guidelines for use in resource-limited environments. These guidelines draw from practical experience and scientific data collected in MSF’s projects, as well as evidence published by the World Health Organization and other leading medical institutions and scientific literature.