IT Product Manager, Procurement (internal candidates only)

UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.

UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.

Working with us

UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

Diversity

With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.

The UNOPS Information Technology Group (ITG) unit is focused on innovation and harnessing cutting-edge technology to deliver solutions to UNOPS that truly address business needs.

Working with UNOPS IT Group is a unique opportunity to deliver systems to users around the world - making an impact on development and solving practical problems for the UNOPS workforce and thereby help people build better lives and countries achieve peace and sustainable development.

ITG’s goal is to provide greater effectiveness, efficiency, and differentiation to UNOPS products and services. UNOPS IT Group is responsible for architecting, designing, delivering, and managing all UNOPS IT infrastructure and business applications. The unit includes Enterprise Architects, Business Analysts, Solutions Designers, and Developers from all around the world who are based primarily in Denmark and Thailand.

Under the supervision of the Senior Product Manager, the Product Manager, Procurement will be responsible for leading a team managing all aspects of product delivery of a group of products throughout their lifecycle, so they are continually  fit for purpose and meet business needs. In doing so, the Product Manager will  be responsible for partnering with the relevant business stakeholders, to understand the core business needs and to help translate the business needs into effective  solutions, features and maintenance effort delivered by IT that address the needs and result in improvements in the form of increased effectiveness, efficiency, or differentiation for UNOPS products and services.

1. Leading the Product Team
2. Product vision
3. Requirements gathering and analysis
4. Data and process design

1. Leading the cross-functional Product Team

Education

• Master’s Degree, preferably in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, HR, Procurement or other relevant discipline is required.
• A Bachelor’s degree in combination with additional two years of experience may be accepted in lieu of master’s degree.
• Secondary education in combination with additional six years of experience may be accepted in lieu of a master's degree

• Minimum 5 years of experience required in the area of processes relating to Procurement
• Minimum of 1 year in a team management role is required
• Minimum 2 yrs of experience in partnering with a broad range of stakeholders to understand business needs, formulating solutions and influencing
• Experience with developing requirements for ERP systems is required
• Experience with developing requirements for Unit4 Business World (UBW) ERP is highly desired
• Experience with performing high-level system support function is required
• Experience in user training is required.
• Demonstrated experience in developing training materials for enterprise systems is required
• Experience in quality assurance and functional documentation is desired.
• Excellent communication skills and good IT understanding

Language Requirements

• Full working knowledge of English is essential.
• Knowledge of another official UNOPS language is an asset

• This vacancy is open to internal candidates only.
• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• For retainer contracts, you must complete a few Mandatory Courses (around 4 hours) in your own time, before providing services to UNOPS.
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.