Vacancy Announcement

Job title:

Senior Supply Chain Manager

Work Location:

75% Freetown & 25% Koidu, Sierra Leone

Department:

Operations

Reports to:

Supply Chain Director

Requisition #

4221

Line Management

TBD

Application Status

External Advert

Organisation Profile

Partners In Health (PIH) is an international health organization relentlessly committed to improving the health of the poor and marginalized. PIH partners with local governments to build local capacity and works closely with impoverished communities to deliver high-quality health care, address the root causes of illness, train providers, advance research, and advocate for global policy change. Our delivered services in the field are based in our partnership with the Governments and Ministries of Health and the support to education, training and mentorship to Health care workers and students is one of our pillars for the Health care system strengthening.

PIH currently has implementation programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Sierra Leone and Navajo Nation. Through our partnership with Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, we support a wide range of programs in dozens of other countries around the world.

Our Work In Sierra Leone:

Partners In Health (PIH) began supporting the government of Sierra Leone in response to the Ebola epidemic in October 2014. Recognizing the large need for continued investments in the health system after Ebola, PIH is committed to long-term health system strengthening in support of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS), guided by the same principles as our emergency response and our work around the world: public sector accompaniment, integrated and comprehensive services, social justice, nimbleness and flexibility, partnership, community ownership, and evidence-based interventions. In the aftermath of the epidemic, PIH is committed to supporting the delivery of comprehensive health services in Sierra Leone, from the community level to the health center and to referral hospitals.

Position Overview

The Senior Supply Chain Manager is responsible for procurement and customs clearance operations for PIH Sierra Leone. The position is dynamic in nature and requires broad supply chain knowledge to strengthen all components of the supply chain, including sourcing, purchasing, logistics, and inventory management. Along with technical supply chain expertise, the role will require significant process development, implementation, and execution across all supply chain components to maximize value for money and minimize stock outs. The role provides oversight and monitoring for the supply chain of medical commodities including critical medications, lab reagents, and biomedical materials, as well as administrative and infrastructure materials including stationary, cleaning materials, and spare parts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure effective supply chain operations from request all the way to delivery to end user
• Partner with Boston based Supply Chain team to coordinate and harmonize international supply chain operations with local organizational activities
• Coordinating transport and procurement operations, including developing and strengthening protocols/policies for standardizing daily operating procedures for stock management, procurement, and logistics
• Partner with clinical teams to regularly review inventory and address both acute and long term priorities
• Ensure supply chain operations are compliant with grant funding requirements
• Oversee the inventory management and distribution of items stored in Freetown
• Implement procedures to track and maintain high value assets, including medical equipment and vehicles

Review and manage supplier relationships and existing contracts for all sites as well as conducting marketing surveys

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment

At Partners In Health, we are committed to ensuring that those who benefit from our work- including our patients, families and community members – as well as our staff are treated with dignity and respect and protected from sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Partners In Health’s PSEAH policy. Partner In Health will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Education and Work Experience Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration or any other related field
• Minimum of 5 years of supply chain experience, preferably in formal supply chain environment

• Demonstrated ability to manage and empower a diverse team focused on many priorities
• Comfort with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and need to juggle competing demands in a fast-paced and challenging work environment
• Strong quantitative skills with expertise in Excel and Enterprise Resource Planning systems
• Ability to initiate, plan, organize, and lead procurement related projects
• Exemplary interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate effectively with culturally diverse staff across departments and country
• Strong organizational skills and operational and business analytics thinking
• Proven ability to exercise good judgment, demonstrate political astuteness, and tact
• Prior experience working in Africa and in resource poor settings, a plus
• Sense of humor and flexible disposition very helpful
• Passion for PIH’s mission and demonstrated commitment to social justice and human rights
• Demonstrated success at managing grants-related projects

Social Justice

We are a global health and social justice organization that responds to the moral imperative to provide high-quality health care globally to those who need it most. We strive to ease suffering by placing patients at the center of all care, bringing the benefits of modern medicine to all.

Method of application

Interested candidates are required to apply through our website: www.pih.org/employment. In your application, please ensure to include names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers of three (3) referees not later than 5:00pm GMT (Midnight) on Tuesday 10th July 2024