Overview
Manages strategic sourcing and supply activities for innovative health products, supporting market-shaping and access initiatives. Provides guidance to operationalize supply-side objectives and serves as a technical resource for portfolio reviews and market interventions.
Key Responsibilities
- Manages strategic sourcing and supply activities across a portfolio of innovative health products.
- Ensures sourcing strategies support access to innovative products while adhering to quality assurance and international public procurement policies.
- Provides strategic, operational, and policy guidance to operationalize supply-side objectives.
- Serves as a key internal technical resource to support portfolio reviews, identify access barriers, conduct root-cause analysis, and design and implement market-shaping interventions.
- Ensures implementation of programme-facing supply-side interventions through engagement with governments, manufacturers, and other partners.
- Collaborates to guide the design, maintenance, and use of data on manufacturers, procurement agents, and health products.
- Monitors current and emerging developments in market evolution, sourcing, and delivery of health products.
- Participates in project performance oversight teams and meetings with international organizations, governments, implementing partners, and industry.
- Designs and undertakes in-depth analyses and knowledge management on sourcing, market coordination, and delivery.
- Contributes to the development and dissemination of knowledge products on access to innovation, procurement, market shaping, and regional manufacturing.
- Coordinates the development and delivery of capacity-building initiatives for staff and partners.
Required Experience
- At least 7 years of progressive experience on market access and industry engagement across health products for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, maternal/newborn/child health.
- At least 5 years of demonstrated international experience designing and executing strategic market-based approaches to support scale-up and equitable access to health commodities in challenging and resource-limited health systems.
- Established networks based on experience working on health product access - including government stakeholders (especially in low- and middle-income countries), development financing agencies (foundations, multilateral and other donors), civil society groups, NGOs, procurement agents, and manufacturers.
- Experience working in resource-limited settings in low- or lower-middle-income countries.
- Desirable: Experience in building and/or overseeing information management systems that support supply and delivery.
- Desirable: Experience in pharmaceuticals and/or diagnostics regulatory affairs, quality assurance, and/or intellectual property.
- Desirable: Demonstrated capacity leading and/or coordinating cross-functional and dynamic teams.
Qualifications
- Essential: Advanced university degree (master's level or above) in business administration, public health, medicine, economics, supply chain management or pharmacy.
- Desirable: Additional qualifications in development policy, supply chain management, or quality management.
