Sophie Owori
Procurement Officer at World Food Programme- Claim this Profile
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Perseverence Ganga
I worked with Sophie for more than a year as her manager and I was involved in her recruitment. Sophie is a seasoned procurement professional having gathered a lot of experience in some of the large and complex WFP operations in the World. Sophie joined my office setting up a procurement unit and a procurement strategy for the Area Office from scratch and also providing support to 5 sub offices under the Area Office. She is a professional par excellence with a strong knack for success. I will re-hire Sophie if I have any opportunity and I do not hesitate to recommend her to senior procurement or administration positions.
Perseverence Ganga
I worked with Sophie for more than a year as her manager and I was involved in her recruitment. Sophie is a seasoned procurement professional having gathered a lot of experience in some of the large and complex WFP operations in the World. Sophie joined my office setting up a procurement unit and a procurement strategy for the Area Office from scratch and also providing support to 5 sub offices under the Area Office. She is a professional par excellence with a strong knack for success. I will re-hire Sophie if I have any opportunity and I do not hesitate to recommend her to senior procurement or administration positions.
Perseverence Ganga
I worked with Sophie for more than a year as her manager and I was involved in her recruitment. Sophie is a seasoned procurement professional having gathered a lot of experience in some of the large and complex WFP operations in the World. Sophie joined my office setting up a procurement unit and a procurement strategy for the Area Office from scratch and also providing support to 5 sub offices under the Area Office. She is a professional par excellence with a strong knack for success. I will re-hire Sophie if I have any opportunity and I do not hesitate to recommend her to senior procurement or administration positions.
Perseverence Ganga
I worked with Sophie for more than a year as her manager and I was involved in her recruitment. Sophie is a seasoned procurement professional having gathered a lot of experience in some of the large and complex WFP operations in the World. Sophie joined my office setting up a procurement unit and a procurement strategy for the Area Office from scratch and also providing support to 5 sub offices under the Area Office. She is a professional par excellence with a strong knack for success. I will re-hire Sophie if I have any opportunity and I do not hesitate to recommend her to senior procurement or administration positions.
Credentials
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Advanced Certificate in Public Procurent
Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS)Oct, 2012- Oct, 2024 -
Procurement and Logistics Management
Makerere UniversityJan, 2005- Oct, 2024
Experience
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World Food Programme
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Italy
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Non-profit Organizations
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700 & Above Employee
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Procurement Officer
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Dec 2013 - Present
I am based at Jijiga Area Office and my responsibility is to oversee and coordinate all the procurement activities of five sub-offices in the Somali Region. My responsibilities are but not limited to:- Provide Technical advice to the Head of the Area Office on procurement activities, following rules, procedures and regulations..- Issue local tenders, evaluate offers and make recommendations for the finalisation of purchases and the award of contracts using WFP's corporate system.- Analyse and evaluate commodity tender results- Review technical proposals of suppliers and carry out cost/benefit analysis for equipment and services procurement.- Manage and coordinate negotiations with all interested parties including contract disputes and claims- Run system queries, prepare reports and management presentation on procurement activity- Provide operation support to sub office / field office staff- Liaise with county office on procurement matters- Follow-up on outsourcing contracts and lease agreements- Liaise with Area Office Logistics on monitoring the expected flows of food to the sub office and provide feedback to the Country Office procurement.- Liaise with WFP appointed inspection and superintendent to ensure quality control, specifiction conformity, volume assessment, monitoring and verification of deliveries.- Assessing/analysing the impact of WFP local procurement on domestic food markets- Maintain roster of suppliers by category for the Area Office- Manage and coordinate negotiations with all interested parties including contract disputes and cliams, P4P direct purchases etc.- Prepare reports on procurement activities as required.- Contribute to any preparedness actions such as early warning, risk analysis,and contingency planning and make the necessary recommendations.- Supervise procurement staff as required- Prepare annual procurement plan for the Area Office.-Perform other related duties as required
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Procurment Officer
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Aug 2010 - Jul 2012
As a focal point in the procurement of food under the Purchase For Progress (P4P) Project my duties were:- Procurement of food from farmer associations and small scale traders.- Issue local tenders, evaluate offers and make recommendations for the finalisation of purchases and the award of contracts using WFP's corporate system.Analayse and evaluate commodity tender results- Facilitation in training of farmers and traders; empowering them to the point where they are able to sell their products at competitive prices in competitive environments.- Coordinate procurement activities between Programme, Logistics, Finance and other units- Coordinate food inspection and ensuring that food purchased under P4P conforms to the required specifications.- Manage and coordinate price negotiations with farmers associations- Draft contracts and have them signed by the WFP procurement authority and the suppliers- Maintain a good filing system- Prepare periodic reports on P4P activities as required- Ensure timely payments are made to all P4P suppliers-Perform other duties as required.
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Senior Procurement Assistant
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Jul 2005 - Jul 2010
Procurement of food including the Purchase for Progress (P4P) initiative:- Registered food vendors and maintained an easy to manage database for all food vendors- issued local tenders, evaluated offers and made recommendations for the finalisation of purchases and the award of of contracts by using WFP's corporate system.- Analaysed and evaluated commodity tenders- Participated in the training of farmers on WFP procurement procedures and guidelines.- Draft contracts and ensure they are properly signed by the WFP Procurement Authority and the vendors.- Creatde files and ensured documents were filled in a proper manner- Prepared payment requests and submitted to Finance for payment. Followed-up on payments to ensure vendors were paid within the stipulated period.- Participated in the preparation of the annual procurement plan- Performed other related duties as required
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World Food Programme
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Italy
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Non-profit Organizations
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700 & Above Employee
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Procurement Assistant
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Jan 1998 - Jun 2005
Procurement of Food and Non-food Items which included the following:- Issued tenders to both traders and farmers associations- Analysed and evaluated commodity tender results- Registered vendors and maintained a well managed food vendors database- Created Purchase Orders in the WFP corporate system- Prepared payment requests and ensured that they were submitted to Finance for payment on timely basis.- Procured of huge amounts of seeds that was distributed to IDPs in camps in northern Uganda.- Performed any other related duties as required.
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Education
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2006 - 2008
Cyprus Institue of Marketing
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services
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