Job ID
48523
Job Title
SUPPLY & LOGISTICS MANAGER
To work for
Oxfam Syria
Country
Syria
City
Damascus
Field of Work
Procurement/Logistics/Delivery
Job Type
Full time
Military service
Finished or Exempted (For male)
Minimum Education Level
Bachelor/ License Degree
Responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)
- Supply & Logistics Manager Job Profile Reviewed by DCD – Support May 2026
- Manage an integrated supply and logistics structure which involves liaising and working closely with
logistics team in country office and hubs, and Oxfam wider team.
- In coordination with HPC/Program Manager and AMs to ensure preparedness plans are in place and to
ensure that all logs actions have been taken in order to have respond in timely and effective manner.
- Generate and lead the in-country implementation/ for Supply & Logistics policies and procedures and lead
on Supply & Logistics strategy development in line with Oxfam OCS.
- Build relations, advocacy, inter-relations with other NGOs, UN bodies and commercial companies on
logistics / supply issues.
- Represent at key international, UN, and national fora on logistics.
People Management and Development:
- Conduct periodical meeting weekly and monthly with hub supply and logistics team members, to ensure
department objective is being delivered.
- Provide technical and team management support to line reports in order to increase efficiency and
effectiveness.
- Develop the Supply & Logistics staffing plan; Identify skills and knowledge needed,
- Manage Supply & Logistics recruitments in-country including casual labor, in line with Oxfam Policies and
local laws and regulations
- Periodically review and revise Supply & Logistics team members Job description.
- Manage, develop, and monitor line reports team members objectives and performance, and ensure all
supply and logistics team members objective are set up and performance review is being performed
periodically.
- Analyze the learning and development needs of self and others in Supply & Logistics Team.
- Support staff in their career development and progression.
- Manage the process of Supply & Logistics induction and training of newly recruited staff.
- Supervise HUB offices Supply & Logistics team technically.
Reporting:
- Ensure visibility of the Supply & Logistics function and activities, by collating and disseminating Supply &
Logistics reports on timely manner.
- Tailor information on supply chain performance and use a range of approaches to influence different
management audiences.
- Use tools/systems, including KPIs, to review and analyze the supply chain and processes regularly to
identify key risk and improvement areas.
- Identify and develop KPI to be used in the supply and logistics department, and provide further analysis of
how to improve and/or maintain good KPIs.
- Advise management line on identified areas of risk.
- Anticipate and coordinate requirements for institutional donor reporting.
Partnership:
- Lead on LNGO capacity assessment and monitoring of Supply & Logistics capacity in partner organisations.
- Manage, develop, and implement learning interventions for partners.
- Implement capacity building plans, by either directly delivering, or identify alternative option
- In collaboration with country Supply & logistics management:
Supply & Logistics Manager Job Profile Reviewed by DCD – Support May 2026
- Continuously look at Supply related areas where affiliates can consolidate their efforts, for example in (but
not limited to) supply chain management, people management, shared services (suppliers, consolidated
procurements, etc.)
Reporting and Planning:
- In collaboration with programme leads, design an appropriate supply structure, in line with Oxfam
standards and procedures:
- Throughout the project cycle, provide information for the (re-)planning of supply activities, including in the
early stages of new programmes and donor proposals.
- Periodically review the effectiveness and quality of the supply process.
- Maintain a risk register for the supply chain in projects and prepare mitigating actions.
- Use supply chain information systems to analyse and select data to prepare management information.
- Use supply chain information systems to analyze and select data to prepare management information.
- Maintain a risk register for the supply chain in projects and prepare mitigating actions with the support of
country logistics management and compliance manager.
Procurement:
- Working together with procurement team to identify supplier performance KPI and providing guidance and
training to procurement and programme staff on how to implement the evaluation.
- Work closely with supply and logistics support in Oxfam regional offices and executing affiliate NODE to
ensure appropriate support is delivered to all of the country office in order to carry our supply and logistics
function to the most cost effective manner.
- Incorporate gender and diversity sensitivities into the day to day operations of logistics processes and
procedures.
- Ensure that all procurement process in country are carried out in line with Oxfam process and procedures
and ensure efficiency and effectiveness.
- In coordination with AM, procurement team, and other stakeholder, to review the RO tracker and identify
delays and propose proper solution and mitigation measures
- Project stock management & delivery.
- Identify best option between direct delivery and stocking.
- In coordination with safety and warehousing responsible. Given current and projected programme needs,
assess appropriate warehouse location, and design and setup the layout, staffing structure, and record
keeping system.
- With relevant logistics staff, plan, manage and coordinate all warehouse and distribution related activities.
- Ensure timely reporting on material usage and stock level status, and coordinate periodic reviews of
minimum stock with project managers.
Fleet Management:
- With relevant logistics staff, oversee the fleet management function, ensuring that the operation complies
with the relevant local regulations governing transport and Oxfam standards and procedures.
- Use fleet management systems to monitor costs and performance and prepare management reports.
- Supervise the team responsible for Asset & equipment inventory management in line with Oxfam standards.
- With relevant logistics staff, coordinate the planning, management, maintenance, and disposal of assets
and inventory, in line with Oxfam standards and procedures, and donor requirements.
General:
- Regular visits to Hub’s offices for compliance and supervision (25 % filed visits).
- Any other duties that may be reasonably required, and in support of capacity building of the role.
- Supply & Logistics Manager Job Profile Reviewed by DCD – Support May 2026
- Manage an integrated supply and logistics structure which involves liaising and working closely with
logistics team in country office and hubs, and Oxfam wider team.
- In coordination with HPC/Program Manager and AMs to ensure preparedness plans are in place and to
ensure that all logs actions have been taken in order to have respond in timely and effective manner.
- Generate and lead the in-country implementation/ for Supply & Logistics policies and procedures and lead
on Supply & Logistics strategy development in line with Oxfam OCS.
- Build relations, advocacy, inter-relations with other NGOs, UN bodies and commercial companies on
logistics / supply issues.
- Represent at key international, UN, and national fora on logistics.
People Management and Development:
- Conduct periodical meeting weekly and monthly with hub supply and logistics team members, to ensure
department objective is being delivered.
- Provide technical and team management support to line reports in order to increase efficiency and
effectiveness.
- Develop the Supply & Logistics staffing plan; Identify skills and knowledge needed,
- Manage Supply & Logistics recruitments in-country including casual labor, in line with Oxfam Policies and
local laws and regulations
- Periodically review and revise Supply & Logistics team members Job description.
- Manage, develop, and monitor line reports team members objectives and performance, and ensure all
supply and logistics team members objective are set up and performance review is being performed
periodically.
- Analyze the learning and development needs of self and others in Supply & Logistics Team.
- Support staff in their career development and progression.
- Manage the process of Supply & Logistics induction and training of newly recruited staff.
- Supervise HUB offices Supply & Logistics team technically.
Reporting:
- Ensure visibility of the Supply & Logistics function and activities, by collating and disseminating Supply &
Logistics reports on timely manner.
- Tailor information on supply chain performance and use a range of approaches to influence different
management audiences.
- Use tools/systems, including KPIs, to review and analyze the supply chain and processes regularly to
identify key risk and improvement areas.
- Identify and develop KPI to be used in the supply and logistics department, and provide further analysis of
how to improve and/or maintain good KPIs.
- Advise management line on identified areas of risk.
- Anticipate and coordinate requirements for institutional donor reporting.
Partnership:
- Lead on LNGO capacity assessment and monitoring of Supply & Logistics capacity in partner organisations.
- Manage, develop, and implement learning interventions for partners.
- Implement capacity building plans, by either directly delivering, or identify alternative option
- In collaboration with country Supply & logistics management:
Supply & Logistics Manager Job Profile Reviewed by DCD – Support May 2026
- Continuously look at Supply related areas where affiliates can consolidate their efforts, for example in (but
not limited to) supply chain management, people management, shared services (suppliers, consolidated
procurements, etc.)
Reporting and Planning:
- In collaboration with programme leads, design an appropriate supply structure, in line with Oxfam
standards and procedures:
- Throughout the project cycle, provide information for the (re-)planning of supply activities, including in the
early stages of new programmes and donor proposals.
- Periodically review the effectiveness and quality of the supply process.
- Maintain a risk register for the supply chain in projects and prepare mitigating actions.
- Use supply chain information systems to analyse and select data to prepare management information.
- Use supply chain information systems to analyze and select data to prepare management information.
- Maintain a risk register for the supply chain in projects and prepare mitigating actions with the support of
country logistics management and compliance manager.
Procurement:
- Working together with procurement team to identify supplier performance KPI and providing guidance and
training to procurement and programme staff on how to implement the evaluation.
- Work closely with supply and logistics support in Oxfam regional offices and executing affiliate NODE to
ensure appropriate support is delivered to all of the country office in order to carry our supply and logistics
function to the most cost effective manner.
- Incorporate gender and diversity sensitivities into the day to day operations of logistics processes and
procedures.
- Ensure that all procurement process in country are carried out in line with Oxfam process and procedures
and ensure efficiency and effectiveness.
- In coordination with AM, procurement team, and other stakeholder, to review the RO tracker and identify
delays and propose proper solution and mitigation measures
- Project stock management & delivery.
- Identify best option between direct delivery and stocking.
- In coordination with safety and warehousing responsible. Given current and projected programme needs,
assess appropriate warehouse location, and design and setup the layout, staffing structure, and record
keeping system.
- With relevant logistics staff, plan, manage and coordinate all warehouse and distribution related activities.
- Ensure timely reporting on material usage and stock level status, and coordinate periodic reviews of
minimum stock with project managers.
Fleet Management:
- With relevant logistics staff, oversee the fleet management function, ensuring that the operation complies
with the relevant local regulations governing transport and Oxfam standards and procedures.
- Use fleet management systems to monitor costs and performance and prepare management reports.
- Supervise the team responsible for Asset & equipment inventory management in line with Oxfam standards.
- With relevant logistics staff, coordinate the planning, management, maintenance, and disposal of assets
and inventory, in line with Oxfam standards and procedures, and donor requirements.
General:
- Regular visits to Hub’s offices for compliance and supervision (25 % filed visits).
- Any other duties that may be reasonably required, and in support of capacity building of the role.
Qualifications
ESSENTIAL
• Self-Awareness
• Mutual accountability
• Vision Setting
• Strategic Thinking and Judgment
• Vision Setting
In addition:
- University degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration with minimum 8 years of experience in
supply chain preferably in international NGO OR University degree with 10 years of experience.
- Experience includes 3 years in managerial role.
- Accreditations in Supply Chain is preferable.
- Strong analytical and planning skills.
- Excellent diplomacy, tact and negotiation skills, and good interpersonal and team skills, together with
the capacity to remain calm under pressure and not lose sight of strategic priorities.
- Extensive field experience including demonstrated Procurement related skills (producing local level
supply plans and managing supplies, including quote & tender process management and team
management).
- Demonstrated experience of leadership, Team management and capacity building of teams.
Supply & Logistics Manager Job Profile Reviewed by DCD – Support May 2026
- Competency in use of relevant technology systems (MS Office suite skills)
- Management of budgets.
- Demonstrated influencing and networking skills in coordination with internal/external stakeholders
- Proactive in anticipating problems
- Commitment to humanitarian principles and action.
- A proven record of effective management resources, including planning and organisational skills.
- Fluency in Arabic and English (written and verbal).
Desirable
- Experience with emergency response delivery in similar conflict situations is preferably.
- Experience of salary benchmarking and pay positioning.
• Self-Awareness
• Mutual accountability
• Vision Setting
• Strategic Thinking and Judgment
• Vision Setting
In addition:
- University degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration with minimum 8 years of experience in
supply chain preferably in international NGO OR University degree with 10 years of experience.
- Experience includes 3 years in managerial role.
- Accreditations in Supply Chain is preferable.
- Strong analytical and planning skills.
- Excellent diplomacy, tact and negotiation skills, and good interpersonal and team skills, together with
the capacity to remain calm under pressure and not lose sight of strategic priorities.
- Extensive field experience including demonstrated Procurement related skills (producing local level
supply plans and managing supplies, including quote & tender process management and team
management).
- Demonstrated experience of leadership, Team management and capacity building of teams.
Supply & Logistics Manager Job Profile Reviewed by DCD – Support May 2026
- Competency in use of relevant technology systems (MS Office suite skills)
- Management of budgets.
- Demonstrated influencing and networking skills in coordination with internal/external stakeholders
- Proactive in anticipating problems
- Commitment to humanitarian principles and action.
- A proven record of effective management resources, including planning and organisational skills.
- Fluency in Arabic and English (written and verbal).
Desirable
- Experience with emergency response delivery in similar conflict situations is preferably.
- Experience of salary benchmarking and pay positioning.
Salary and Benefits
as per Oxfam salary scale
Social Security
Medical Insurance
Social Security
Medical Insurance
About us
Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations networked together in more than 90 countries, as part of a global movement for change, to build a future free from the injustice of poverty.
In Syria :
While Oxfam has been present in the region since 1970, it began operating in Syria through its Damascus based presence in July 2013. Since then, Oxfam has been responding to both the urgent WASH needs for vulnerable people, and has been working on the rehabilitation of water systems in order to provide durable, more sustainable solutions to the affected populations. Interventions implemented under Oxfam's WASH Programme include: Provision of Acute Emergency Life-Saving WASH Services, Rehabilitation of Water Systems, Hygiene Promotion and Water Conservation, Capacity Building and Training, and Improved Emergency WASH Coordination. To date, Oxfam has been worked in 10 governorates, seeking out to over 2.5 million beneficiaries.
In Syria :
While Oxfam has been present in the region since 1970, it began operating in Syria through its Damascus based presence in July 2013. Since then, Oxfam has been responding to both the urgent WASH needs for vulnerable people, and has been working on the rehabilitation of water systems in order to provide durable, more sustainable solutions to the affected populations. Interventions implemented under Oxfam's WASH Programme include: Provision of Acute Emergency Life-Saving WASH Services, Rehabilitation of Water Systems, Hygiene Promotion and Water Conservation, Capacity Building and Training, and Improved Emergency WASH Coordination. To date, Oxfam has been worked in 10 governorates, seeking out to over 2.5 million beneficiaries.
Required employees number
1
Posted On
May 18, 2026
Expiry Date
Jun 02, 2026
CV Language
English
