Procurement Lead - Mobility

About the role

M-KOPA Mobility is looking for a Procurement Lead to build and own its procurement function from the ground up as it scales operations across Kenya and into new markets. This is Mobility's first dedicated Procurement Lead role, covering purchasing policy, vendor base building and commercial terms for repair parts, retail stock, vehicles and batteries. It sits within the Finance department and is a hybrid role based in Nairobi.

Key responsibilities

• Owning vendor contracting for parts, goods and services, and negotiating terms for the largest and most repeated purchases
• 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
• Setting purchasing policy and approval limits with the Head of Strategic Finance and flagging out-of-policy purchases
• Working with Supply Chain, Business Operations, Product and Partnerships on sourcing, landed cost analysis and supplier risk
• Tracking and reporting spend by category and vendor, identifying savings and consolidation opportunities
• Running vendor onboarding and due diligence, and setting purchasing terms ahead of new market launches

Required profile

• 6+ years of experience in procurement or vendor management, ideally in hardware, automotive, retail or asset finance
• Proven experience negotiating contracts with parts, goods, insurance or logistics vendors
• Degree in Business, Supply Chain or a related field

Required skills

• Experience working across functions to turn a specification into a vendor decision
• Experience setting purchasing policy used daily by other teams
• Ability to use spend data to drive savings and better vendor decisions