Senior Procurement Specialist

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd . Operations Policy and Country Services (OPCS) plays a pivotal role in achieving the World Bank Group's mission by assisting frontline staff in delivering results to clients. OPCS develops and oversees the Bank's operational policies for country strategies, lending operations, advisory services and analytical support, procurement, and environmental and social standards. OPCS teams also provide advice and support to World Bank senior management and staff as well as hands-on assistance to help teams apply the Bank's policies, processes, and risk management tools. The Operations Procurement Department in OPCS is responsible for setting procurement policy, providing oversight, and supporting good practice in Bank-financed operations. The OPCS Procurement Team manages the World Bank’s Procurement Framework, develops and maintains Standard Procurement Documents (SPDs), leads operational procurement policy development, provides oversight for major projects, and delivers training and outreach to stakeholders. The department also coordinates with other multilateral development banks to harmonize procurement standards and practices. The department is currently leading a number of Bank-wide reforms and initiatives that have a considerable impact on the Bank’s operations and contribute significantly to several of the Bank’s priorities and policy commitments. Scope of Work : Reporting to the Director and Chief Procurement Officer and/or the Manager of the Procurement Department, the selected candidate will be a dynamic and energetic professional with strong market instincts, a keen awareness of evolving industry trends, and the ability to translate market insights into the Bank’s work. The candidate will be responsible for the following: • Partner with OPSPR colleagues to shape and deliver new policy initiatives, with particular emphasis on the industry outreach workstream of the Bank’s Procurement Change Program across priority sectors, including energy, transport, urban, water, health, education, and digital; • Working with OPSPR, sector, operational, corporate, and external relations colleagues and across the WBG: - Build strategic relationships with industry leading companies, private sector, associations, regional and national trade agencies, leading suppliers, bilateral donors, MDBs, and other partners to sharpen and expand outreach, systematically capture industry feedback, and channel relevant insights to operational sector teams to strengthen the design and implementation of sectoral projects; - Design and deliver targeted market-specific sector and/or subsector engagement plans. - Position the Bank at key industry forums and identify opportunities to leverage IFC and MIGA offerings; • Equip sector teams in these priority areas with practical procurement guidance and tools to strengthen sector- and subsector-level strategy design and implementation; • Contribute to priority reviews and provide focused advisory input to programs and projects in coordination with OPSPR and regional colleagues; • Create compelling communications that amplify industry outreach, working with the OPSPR communications lead and regional colleagues; and • Advance internal outreach and change management across the Bank’s procurement profession.