Background

M-KOPA’s mission is to make high quality energy affordable to everyone. OUR GROWTH SO FAR... M-KOPA has connected more than 400,000 homes in Kenya,Tanzania and Uganda to solar power with over 550 new homes being added every day.

Responsibilities

In this role, you would be responsible for:

• Owning vendor contracting for parts, goods, and services. Negotiating terms directly for Mobility’s largest and most repeated purchases, and contracting and managing insurance, logistics, and freight partners
• Maintaining a vendor register with pricing, terms, and performance history, and monitoring vendors on price, quality, and delivery, acting on underperformance where required
• Setting purchasing policy and approval limits with the Head of Strategic Finance and applying them consistently across markets, flagging out-of-policy purchases for General Manager or Finance sign-off
• Working with Supply Chain on specification and vendor selection for repair parts and inventory, with Business Operations on sourcing for retail and resale, and with Product and Partnerships on vehicle and battery purchasing from manufacturers bringing commercial terms, landed cost analysis, and supplier risk into every deal
• Tracking and reporting Mobility’s spend by category and vendor, identifying savings opportunities and consolidation options
• Running vendor onboarding and due diligence in line with M-KOPA policy, working with Legal and Compliance throughout
• Standing up vendor relationships and purchasing terms ahead of each new market launch, working with Country Managers and Strategy on local sourcing options

Qualifications

Your application should demonstrate:

• 6+ years of experience in procurement or vendor management, ideally in a hardware, automotive, retail, or asset finance business
• Proven experience negotiating contracts with parts, goods, insurance, or logistics vendors
• Experience working across functions to translate a specification into a vendor decision
• Experience setting purchasing policy that other teams apply day to day
• Demonstrated ability to use spend data to drive savings and better vendor decisions
• A degree in Business, Supply Chain, or a related field

• Owning vendor contracting for parts, goods, and services. Negotiating terms directly for Mobility’s largest and most repeated purchases, and contracting and managing insurance, logistics, and freight partners
• Maintaining a vendor register with pricing, terms, and performance history, and monitoring vendors on price, quality, and delivery, acting on underperformance where required
• Setting purchasing policy and approval limits with the Head of Strategic Finance and applying them consistently across markets, flagging out-of-policy purchases for General Manager or Finance sign-off
• Working with Supply Chain on specification and vendor selection for repair parts and inventory, with Business Operations on sourcing for retail and resale, and with Product and Partnerships on vehicle and battery purchasing from manufacturers bringing commercial terms, landed cost analysis, and supplier risk into every deal
• Tracking and reporting Mobility’s spend by category and vendor, identifying savings opportunities and consolidation options
• Running vendor onboarding and due diligence in line with M-KOPA policy, working with Legal and Compliance throughout
• Standing up vendor relationships and purchasing terms ahead of each new market launch, working with Country Managers and Strategy on local sourcing options

• Procurement
• Vendor Management
• Contract Negotiation
• Spend Analysis
• Purchasing Policy Development
• Supply Chain Management
• Logistics Management
• Freight Management
• Insurance
• Risk Management

• 6+ years of experience in procurement or vendor management, ideally in a hardware, automotive, retail, or asset finance business
• Proven experience negotiating contracts with parts, goods, insurance, or logistics vendors
• Experience working across functions to translate a specification into a vendor decision
• Experience setting purchasing policy that other teams apply day to day
• Demonstrated ability to use spend data to drive savings and better vendor decisions
• A degree in Business, Supply Chain, or a related field