Professional Experience:
• Over twenty years of experience managing supply chains across various sectors including UN, NGOs, National Governments, and private sector industries. Organisations worked for include ZESA (Intern Buyer and Stores Tracer), Cochrane Engineering (International Buyer-Shipping), Zimbabwe Phosphate Industries ( Senior Supplies Officer – Engineering), PG Industries-DST (National Procurement Manager), Plan International (General Services Coordinator), WFP (Procurement Officer, NFI), UNDP Zimbabwe (PSM Associate-Global Fund Project) , UNDP Liberia (Procurement Specialist – Elections Project), UNDP Nigeria (Procurement Specialist – Democratic Governance and Leander Exports Corporation, South Africa (Operations and Supply Management Consultant – Remote).
• Specialized in operations, public procurement, transport and logistics, contracts, project management, and capacity development.
• Aid and Development projects served are food aid, elections and democratic governance, child protection/child centred development, public health procurement and supply chain management (HIV/AID, Malaria, TB & COVID19)
• Managed procurement projects funded by major donors like Global Fund, EU, DFID, USAID, JICA, SIDA, World Bank, AFDB notably at Plan International, WFP and UNDP (Liberia, Nigeria & Zimbabwe)
• Extensive international experience in countries such as Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa, Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Kenya, Mauritius, Thailand India, China, Hungary, France and Switzerland.
• Held the position of PSM Officer for UNDP-Global Fund from 2013 to March 2024.
• Currently working as Supply Management Specialist Consultant for Leander Exports Corporation in South Africa.
• Established procurement control systems at Liberia’s National Elections Commission with minimal material waste and on-time delivery of election materials.
• Achieved a 10% cost reduction through optimizing the flow of public health goods for the UNDP/GF Partnership.
• Managed a cumulative spend of $4.5 million for the National AIDS Council’s Adolescent Girls and Young Women Dreams Project benefiting 12,000 girl children in school.
• Conducted in-house trainings on various topics including contracts management, public procurement, public health quality assurance and emergency logistics support.
• Graduated with a Higher National Diploma in Purchasing and Supply in 2001; achieved MCIPS in 2005; completed an MBA with Nottingham Trent University and an MSc in Operations and Supply Chain Management with University of Liverpool.
• Procured construction materials and equipment for significant projects like PG Industries Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe Rural Electrification Programme.
• Specialist planning and quantification experience for public health commodities including HIV Therapy, TB medicines, Malaria Control, COVID-19 PPE.
• Deployed modern diagnostic systems and upgraded national laboratory facilities in Zimbabwe.
• Supported multi-million-dollar construction projects including warehouses, reference laboratories, clean rooms and hospital facilities for UNDP/GF funded projects in Zimbabwe.