Specialist, Complex Technologies Category - GL D - Temporary until December 2025

The Global Fund aims to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria as epidemics. We invest more than US$4 billion a year to support programs run by local experts in countries and communities most in need. Since 2020, through the COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM), additional funding has been made available to support countries to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.

As part of our mandate to fight the three diseases and increase access to quality-assured health products, non-health products and services at affordable and sustainable prices, the Global Fund plays a leading role in global markets for medicines and technologies that prevent, diagnose, and treat HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Every year, more than half of the Global Fund’s investments is used to procure key health products, ensuring they are available to those who need them most.

The Global Fund’s Supply Operations Department, in collaboration across the Global Fund Secretariat, is responsible for the overall management of sourcing, procurement, quality assurance and supply chain related matters, including strategy formulation and implementation, development of policy guidelines and ensure compliances, drive innovation, sustainability agenda and new product introduction, and importantly support country capacity building contributing to a more resilient and agile national health care supply chain.

To implement the Global Fund’s 2023-2028 Strategy, Supply Operations has recently introduced a new operating model to achieve accelerated value contributions to the communities and people we serve more effectively and efficiently.

The Direct Sourcing team is responsible for the Global Fund’s core health product sourcing activities to ensure delivery to meet grant program targets. This includes getting the right products through effective category management, engaging the right suppliers through supplier management, and negotiating the optimal prices through contract management implementation.

The Direct Sourcing team is responsible for developing and implementing sourcing strategies over a wide range of health products. This includes supporting implementation of the Next Generation Market Shaping Framework on health products and managing the sourcing activities for the centralized procurement facility, i.e. Pooled Procurement Mechanism (PPM).

The PPM annual spend of $1.2 billion, which represents over 60% of Global Fund health products spend and about 25% of Global Fund grant spend annually, is being utilized by over 60 countries.
The Sourcing team at the Supply Operations Department has a proven track-record of delivering significant value to the Global Fund. The Department has continuously been able to deliver savings through purchasing agreements that allowed the Global Fund to procure the best quality products at the lowest sustainable prices and at the right level of innovation.

The Complex Diagnostics Category Specialist develops and implements global category strategies for the Complex Health Products including Viral Load, Early Infant Diagnostics, Tuberculosis and other co-infections molecular tests. The Category Specialist also guides selected Procurement Services Agencies to develop and implement procurement strategies for Imaging Technologies such as X-rays, Next Generation Sequencing Technologies, Oxygen and Waste Management equipment).

Key Job dimensions:

• Financial responsibility: Specialist, Complex Technologies Category. Spend USD 100 million.
• External engagement: Medium and complex
• Impact on the organization: Develops and implements the Health Technologies category strategies and has the machine based Category Portfolio responsibility. High financial impact in terms of saving generations.

Key Responsibilities

Category Management and strategic tendering

Under the supervision of the Manager, Health Technologies Sourcing and in alignment with the Diagnostics Specialist, the Specialist, Complex Technologies Category will be responsible for the following:

• Developing the product category strategy and global tendering for complex health technologies (including molecular technologies) by leveraging product and supplier knowledge and other subject matter expertise.
• Accountable for managing the operational implementation of the product category strategy, tender outcomes, contracts and supplier performance.
• Responsible for providing product category input to inform the top-down saving target setting process.
• Manages the supplier relationship by serving as the primary interface with manufacturers.
• Responsible for managing the supplier performance against agreed performance KPIs.
• Implements and ensures compliance and delivery of value in contract implementation and allocation of demand to meet contractual requirements and financial commitments.
• Implements and optimizes the delivery on value from strategy and tender outcomes through supply and demand interventions.
• Implements additional strategic sourcing opportunities to further leverage spend through additional volumes or other strategic approaches within and beyond Global Fund spend.

Next Gen Market Shaping Framework Implementation

Serves as critical implementer of the Board-approved Next Gen Market Shaping Framework objectives through both category-specific and cross-cutting elements:

• Ensure continued availability and affordability of the needed category products.
• Promote consistent quality standards through the category product portfolio procurement.
• Support efforts to stimulate innovation through supplier relationship management.
• Accelerate adoption of new and/ or cost-effective products to maximize the program impact.
• Transfer category knowledge and promote strategic sourcing best practices and to prepare for country transition and long- term market viability.

Demand Management

• Responsible to engage and obtain category product forecasts for category strategies, tenders, contract implementation, annual supplier financial commitments and external partner engagements to ensure that the Global Fund can anticipate health product demand and take necessary actions to ensure continuity of supply.
• Focal point for complex health products category in the inter-team and inter-divisional demand management process to meet the needs of efficient and effective sourcing and grant implementation.

Transaction management

• Supports realization of value opportunities and supply solutions for challenging Principal Recipient requests in terms of efficient sourcing and grant implementation.

Tool and system support

• Identify business needs, opportunities, and challenges with regards to category management.

Subject to change by the Executive Director at any time at their sole discretion.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Advanced degree in health, science or business field, ideally associated with business administration or financial qualification.

Experience

Essential:

• Demonstrated experience in public/private health product sourcing.

Desirable:

• Relevant experience engaging with/without Lower Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).
• Experience managing complex health technologies product categories

Competencies

Languages:

An excellent knowledge of English and preferably a good working knowledge of French. Knowledge of other languages would be an asset.

Functional Competencies:

• Analytical (level 2)
• Business (level 1)
• Disease knowledge (level 2)
• Finance (level 2)
• Geopolitical (level 2)
• Negotiations (level 2)
• Operational Policy (level 2)
• Procurement & Supply Chain (level 2)
• Project Management (level 1)

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Job Posting End Date

18 June 2024