Team Purpose

The vision of Save the Children’s Supply Chain is to ensure that children can access quality goods and services at all times to help them survive, learn, and be protected. Our mission is to provide goods and services at the right time, quality, and cost, enabling impactful, safe, and sustainable program delivery for children.

The Procurement function includes over 500 colleagues across more than 50 countries, managing over 15,000 suppliers and sourcing goods and services worth over $400 million annually. After staff salaries, this is Save the Children’s largest area of expenditure, playing a critical role in enabling our programmes and advocacy work to deliver impact for children.

Principal Accountabilities

• Lead and own designated categories of spend, driving strategy, planning, and execution to maximize impact and value.
• Manage global supplier relationships within assigned categories, ensuring high performance, compliance, and cost efficiency.
• Deliver global sourcing initiatives and provide strategic support to Country Offices, ensuring best value and contribution to global financial targets.
• Champion and implement project-based initiatives to simplify, innovate, and enhance procurement processes across the organization.
• Strengthen the skills and capabilities of colleagues through coaching, training, and hands-on support.
• Prepare, analyze, and interpret procurement and sourcing data, delivering clear insights and recommendations through well-structured presentations (e.g., PowerPoint).
• Oversee high-value, country-led procurement to ensure adherence to policy, optimal value for money, and risk mitigation.
• Drive the adoption and effective use of ProSave (Save the Children’s SAP Ariba Source-to-Pay system) to standardize and optimize procurement operations.

Experience and Skills

Essential

• Clear desire and motivation to work in the not-for-profit sector
• Significant experience in Category Management, with a strong track record of delivering value through strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Sourcing (multiple multi-million-dollar processes completed with evidence of successful implementation – e.g. financial benefits, stakeholder feedback etc.)
• Experience of Procurement Operations / Buying activities
• Knowledge of using e-procurement systems (SAP Ariba is desirable)
• Analytical skills and critical thinking / problem solving skills
• Project management
• Stakeholder management and influencing skills (to a senior level)

Desirable

• Experience of working in a large international organisation (Non-Profit)/ Private Sector
• Knowledge of specific categories of spend specific to the role (e.g. IT, Pharmaceuticals, CVA, NFI’s, Fleet)
• Experience of leading training programmes / activity on complex procurement matters or categories.
• French, Spanish or Arabic language fluency

Education and Qualifications

Desirable

• Degree in Business, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain management or similar.