Procurement Specialist & Systems Analyst

Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) is a leading owner/operator of one of the largest and most prestigious power generating projects in Africa.

The Procurement Specialist & Systems Analyst at Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) is crucial for strengthening the company's procurement capabilities by leveraging data, analytics, and optimized system workflows. This position involves leading the optimization of SAP Business One procurement processes and preparing procurement data, users, and processes for upcoming ERP and SAP Ariba transformations. The specialist will ensure that all procurement data, processes, and system workflows are accurate, controlled, and fit for purpose, acting as a key interface between Procurement, Finance, and IT to support LTWP’s transition to a fully digital Source-to-Pay environment.

1. Maintain and enforce procurement master-data standards for vendors, items, categories, and pricing, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
2. Lead vendor and item master-data cleansing, validation, and duplicate prevention to improve data quality for ERP upgrades and migrations.
3. Establish and maintain data governance controls, including mandatory fields, validation rules, and approval requirements for master records.
4. Develop and maintain procurement spend analysis across various dimensions like supplier, category, site, project, and cost-centre.
5. Create and maintain procurement dashboards and management reports for reliable visibility of spend, savings, and activity.
6. Support Finance and Procurement in establishing spend baselines and tracking actual savings delivery.
7. Develop exception reports to highlight unusual, non-compliant, or potentially unauthorized procurement activity.
8. Validate data accuracy and reconcile procurement reporting with Finance records.
9. Develop, maintain, and continuously improve procurement catalogues for low-value and frequently purchased goods and services.
10. Ensure catalogue information is accurate, current, and aligned with approved suppliers and pricing.
11. Analyze catalogue usage to identify opportunities for replacing manual purchasing with catalogue/self-service transactions.
12. Maintain an accurate and accessible procurement contract repository, capturing key information like supplier, category, value, and dates.
13. Monitor the linkage between purchase orders and applicable contracts/framework agreements.
14. Identify potential maverick purchasing and other procurement exceptions.
15. Define, document, and coordinate procurement requirements for approval workflows, purchasing controls, and reporting logic, collaborating with IT.
16. Document system requirements, process issues, and improvement opportunities.
17. Identify and implement opportunities to digitize and automate procurement processes across the Source-to-Pay cycle.
18. Eliminate manual, spreadsheet-based, and offline procurement activities.
19. Support the transition to system-based requisitioning, approvals, purchasing, contract management, and reporting.
20. Monitor adoption of approved digital procurement processes and escalate non-compliance.
21. Maintain process documentation and system controls for consistent and auditable procurement processes.
22. Support Procurement’s readiness for ERP upgrades and future SAP S/4HANA and/or SAP Ariba implementations.
23. Lead procurement data cleansing activities under the direction of the Head of Procurement.
24. Reconcile migrated data against source-system records and identify discrepancies.
25. Develop simple "How to Buy" guides, process instructions, and system user guides.
26. Support training for procurement users and business stakeholders on approved processes and system functionality.
27. Use procurement data and user feedback to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
28. Promote adherence to procurement policies, approved buying channels, and system-based processes.

1. Bachelor’s degree in Procurement & Supply Chain Management, Business Information Systems, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
2. Professional qualification in procurement/supply chain (e.g., CIPS) and additional training/certification in ERP systems, data analytics, business intelligence, SAP, or process automation is advantageous.
3. 4-5 years of relevant experience in procurement, supply chain, procurement analytics, ERP support, master-data management, business analysis, or a related environment.
4. Demonstrated experience working with ERP systems, preferably SAP Business One or another SAP ERP environment.
5. Experience in implementing or supporting digital procurement, eProcurement, workflow automation, catalogues, or other system-enabled Source-to-Pay processes is highly desirable.
6. Experience working with large procurement datasets, including extracting, cleansing, transforming, and analyzing data.
7. Practical experience supporting an ERP implementation, upgrade, optimization, or migration, covering data cleansing, mapping, configuration, testing, UAT, and go-live readiness.
8. Advanced Excel skills; proficiency in Power BI or similar tools is preferred.