Specialist, Market Shaping - GL D - Defined Duration until April 2027 (Reposted)

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  • Publication date:05 July 2025
  • Workload:100%
  • Place of work:Geneva
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Job summary

Join the Global Fund as a Specialist, Market Shaping, until April 2027. Drive innovation in health initiatives!

Tasks

  • Coordinate the introduction strategy for Lenacapavir for PrEP.
  • Engage with stakeholders to enhance market access for health products.
  • Support project implementation and progress tracking effectively.

Skills

  • Master’s degree or relevant experience in global health required.
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills needed.
  • Ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships essential.

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Specialist, Market Shaping - GL D - Defined Duration until April 2027 (Reposted)

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 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, TB and malaria. Every year, roughly half of the Global Fund’s investments – about US$2 billion – is used to procure key health products, ensuring they are available to those who need them most.

The Global Fund’s Supply Operations Department (SO), in collaboration across its 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, aiming to achieve accelerated value contributions to the communities and people we serve more effectively and efficiently.

The Supply Operations Strategy, Procedure & Innovation team was created to meet the evolving and pressing needs of drive more equitable access to innovative and quality assured health product in a more responsive and cost-effective delivery model, which would require strategic market interventions and partnerships to achieve. Shaping innovation and accelerated new product introduction at scale is one of the strategic interventions of the NextGen Market Shaping approach, aiming to drive equitable access to innovation and quality assured health products.

Lenacapavir for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (LEN PrEP) is one of the most promising current new innovations, with potential to revolutionize the HIV response and accelerate significant reductions in new HIV infections among those most at risk. Accelerating its rollout is a priority for the Global Fund and its partners over the next few years.

Under the supervision of the Manager, Market Shaping and Partnership, the Specialist, Market Shaping, will coordinate the execution of the introduction strategy for the scaled introduction of Lenacapavir for PrEP, ensure on time, on budget and quality delivery of the relevant catalytic investments appropriated for the agreed interventions.

They will play a critical role in collaborating across Supply Operations, the Grant Management Department (GMD), the HIV Team and key partners in supporting the teams with the Lenacapavir for PrEP introduction strategy, project implementation, tracking and progress reporting, including timely escalation, troubleshooting, and problem-solving.

The Specialist, Market Shaping, will be responsible for coordinated stakeholder and partnership engagement and ensure an integrated and synergistic approach to catalyze and shape a sustainable market for Lenacapavir and, and alignment across NextGen Market Shaping interventions.

Key Responsibilities

The Specialist, Market Shaping, is responsible for the following activities and task as assigned.

  • Lead joint planning for Lenacapavir for PrEP initiatives related to NextGen market shaping mechanisms and co-develop introduction strategies, including country prioritization, key interventions, and exit strategies in collaboration with relevant internal teams (especially GMD) and through coordination with global partners such as USAID/PEPFAR, Gates Foundation, CIFF, WHO, and others (via partnership coordination mechanisms).
  • As part of the Strategy Procedure & Innovation Team, a cross-cutting team in SO, serve as the SO internal and external focal point for LEN PrEP introduction and scale-up ensuring alignment and coordination across the Secretariat and driving stakeholder consultations and partnership meetings for effective collaboration.  This includes participation on the LEN PrEP working group and bringing knowledge and practice from the market, pricing and delivery perspectives to this cross-Secretariat group.
  • Coordinate the Global Fund participation in global market-shaping/dynamics work regarding LEN PrEP through relevant external partnership coordination mechanisms, including co-development of strategies and key interventions for global market partners, such as PEPFAR/USAID, CIFF, WHO, Gates Foundation and others, and, as part of this group of partners, in the interactions with LEN PrEP manufacturers.
  • Working in particularly close partnership with UNITAID, create and utilize a partnership mapping of LEN PrEP SO-related implementation activities among global partners, and at country levels, the latter conducted in collaboration with the country roadmaps (i.e. Grant Management Division and Technical Advice and Partnerships Dept. country-facing roles).
  • Contribute to or produce communication activities, documents, presentations, and workshops, including at governance level, according to requests from and coordination with the LEN PrEP Coordination Group.

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

Qualifications

Essential:

  • Advanced university degree in a relevant field (master’s level or equivalent) or specific professional qualification; possible to have first degree and relevant post first-degree work experience.

Desirable:

  • Business administration or financial qualification

Experience

Essential:

  • Proven experience in prior strategy focused roles within global organizations, including organizational planning and implementation of strategy
  • Experience working with market shaping, health product introduction in Global Public Health organizations
  • Demonstrated experience in successfully delivering on strategic priorities
  • Proven experience working with teams across a diverse portfolio of programs
  • Experience in innovation practice in health products and services, and experience operationalizing processes to support the translation of policies, programs, or services

Desirable:

  • Minimum 6 years in positions in public and private health sector, with extensive experience in the health sector and/or not-for-profit sector
  • Strong understanding of HIV- related pharmaceuticals including prevention products, in particular long-acting PrEP

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:

  • Operational Policy: Level 2
  • Communications: Level 3
  • Project Management: Level 2
  • Procurement and Supply Chain: Level 2
  • Global Public Health: Level 2
  • Disease knowledge: Level 2

Other competencies

  • Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal skills, negotiation, consultation, influencing and stakeholder management skills
  • High degree of personal initiative and resiliency in face of challenging stakeholder and difficult situations
  • Ability influence, build relationships and manage large stakeholder groups to ensure outcomes
  • Manage competing issues to deliver high quality outcomes within required deadlines
  • Understanding of political strategies and how to navigate those political spaces to represent Global Fund affectively
  • Working knowledge & understanding of project management principles and application in multicultural settings including international public and private organization
  • Track-record in strategic thinking and creative problem-solving
  • Analytic mindset and highly experienced in structuring complex problems
  • Strong capabilities in fostering collaboration within and across Departments

The Global Fund recruits top-tier talent for our open positions, in support of our mission to end AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics.

 

Explore our vacancies and apply on the Global Fund Careers recruitment system.

 

More information on working at the Global Fund is available on the Careers section of our main website.

Job Posting End Date

20 July 2025

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