Procurement Specialist & Systems Analyst

About

The role strengthens procurement scalability, control and visibility through data, analytics and system-enabled workflows, including optimization of SAP Business One procurement processes and readiness for future ERP and SAP Ariba transformation. It serves as the procurement data and systems interface between Procurement, Finance and IT, supporting a digitally enabled Source-to-Pay environment. Applicants need a relevant bachelor's degree and 4–5 years' relevant experience, including ERP and procurement data work. Salary: TBD Terms of service: Permanent Reference: Job Duty station: Nairobi

How to apply

Apply through https://ltwp.seamlesshiring.com/job/view/11424?utm_source=Direct. In case of technical difficulties with the application link, qualified candidates should send their cover letter and CVs to careers@ltwp.co.ke, clearly indicating the position they are applying for in the email subject.

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Responsibilities

• Maintain and enforce procurement master-data standards for vendors, items/materials, categories and pricing, ensuring data is complete, accurate, consistent and compliant with approved requirements.
• Lead vendor and item master-data cleansing, validation and duplicate prevention to improve data quality and support ERP upgrade and migration readiness.
• Establish and maintain data governance controls, including mandatory fields, validation rules, approval requirements and controlled creation, modification and deactivation of master records.
• Accountable for procurement master-data integrity, quality standards, and system-level compliance.
• Holds functional control and verification responsibility to intercept, reject or return flawed master data entries and non-compliant transaction requests at the data entry level.
• This role exercises administrative gatekeeping and compliance monitoring, with formal approval authority, policy exceptions, and commercial commitments strictly reserved for the Head of Procurement and the approved Delegation of Authority (DoA) matrix.
• Develop and maintain procurement spend analysis covering supplier, category, site, project and cost-centre dimensions.
• Develop and maintain procurement dashboards and management reports that provide reliable visibility of spend by supplier, categories, site, project, cost centre, savings and procurement activity.
• Support Finance and Procurement in establishing reliable procurement spend baselines and tracking actual savings/value delivery.
• Develop exception reports highlighting unusual, non-compliant or potentially unauthorised procurement activity.
• Validate data accuracy and reconcile procurement reporting to Finance records where required.
• Develop, maintain and continuously improve procurement catalogues for low-value and frequently purchased goods and services.
• Ensure catalogue information is accurate, current and aligned with approved suppliers, pricing and procurement arrangements.
• Analyse catalogue usage and identify categories where manual purchasing can be replaced by catalogue/self-service transactions.
• Maintain an accurate and accessible procurement contract repository.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Procurement & Supply Chain Management, Business Information Systems, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Finance, Business Administration or a related discipline.
• Professional qualification in procurement/supply chain such as CIPS and additional training or certification in ERP systems, data analytics, business intelligence, SAP or process automation will be an advantage.
• 4-5 years’ relevant experience in procurement, supply chain, procurement analytics, ERP support, master-data management, business analysis or a related environment.
• Demonstrated experience working with ERP systems, preferably SAP Business One or another SAP ERP environment.
• Experience in implementing or supporting digital procurement, eProcurement, workflow automation, catalogues or other system-enabled Source-to-Pay processes is highly desirable.
• Experience working with large procurement datasets and extracting, cleansing, transforming and analysing data.
• Demonstrated practical experience supporting an ERP implementation, upgrade, optimisation or migration, including data cleansing, data mapping, configuration requirements, testing, user acceptance testing and go-live readiness.
• Advanced Excel; Power BI or similar tools preferred.