Supplier Relations Officer

Ruma is a social enterprise incubated by Grameen Foundation that provides business-in-a-box solutions for the poor. Ruma recently won 1st Place at Harvard's Social Enterprise Conference. The leadership in Ruma includes alumni from Harvard Business School, Kellog School of Management, the UNDP, Kiva, BCG, Mckinsey, and Grameen Foundation.

Of the 240 million people in Indonesia, 3/4 live below $2.5 a day, and 2/3 have mobile phones. Ninety percent of these users buy prepaid minutes instead of paying a monthly bill. Ruma sells a business-in-a-box that enables small entrepreneurs to sell prepaid minutes. We buy minutes at a discount from 10 telecom operators and store them in our server. When a customer buys minutes from our entrepreneur, we send the minutes electronically via SMS thereby reducing the need for a physical voucher. We
worked with Grameen Foundation to develop this model, which is essentially the
next evolution of the Grameen Phone. As of March 2010, we’ve deployed a network of 2,000 entrepreneurs, $3,000 worth of minutes to 80,000 customers each day. Seventy percent of our entrepreneurs were below the poverty line when they joined; now 100% are profitable. We plan to launch a jobs market, micro-insurance and retail application using our prepaid minutes platform.

Our efforts support the Grameen Foundation’s mission to empower the world’s poorest people to lift themselves out of poverty. Please visit www.grameenfoundation.org. More details on the company can be found here: www.ruma.co.id

Supplier Relations Officer (SRO)

The SRO is responsible for securing and managing
relationship with suppliers of Ruma's products. These suppliers currently
include Telecommunications Operators, Dealer for the Telcos, and PLN.

Ruma has a network of over 3,000 agents selling these goods
and it is therefore important to secure a constant supply of products. The
SRO will be first responsible for securing suppliers and managing the process
including contract negotiation and working with IT to connect the systems
between the companies.

Ruma currently has numerous suppliers and the SRO will be
responsible for creating performance metrics for each of the suppliers and
removing those that do not meet performance targets. The SRO needs to monitor
the service level agreements between Ruma and its suppliers and remind the
suppliers if they are not meeting pre-agreed upon conditions.


Requirements
* ~5 years of experience in vendor management
* Familiarity with technology
* Undergraduate degree from accredited institution
* Prior relationships with Telco dealers or PLN a plus
* Owns a vehicle which can be used to travel to suppliers
Please send your application letter indicating the applied position, curriculum vitae, and recent photograph no later than 30 December 2011 to : jobs@ruma.co.id


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