Re-opening: Regional Supply Chain Management

hace 2 semanas


Panamá, Panamá, Panamá United Nations Population Fund A tiempo completo

NOTE:
This vacancy has been re-opened. All applicants who applied previously need not re-apply.

The Position:
The Regional Supply Chain Management Specialist is located in the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office (LACRO).

You report directly to the Head of Country Support and Monitoring in Supply Chain Management Unit (SCMU) in Copenhagen with a dotted reporting line to the International Operations Manager in the Regional Office.

You will work closely with the colleagues in SCMU, Technical Division/ Commodity Security Branch, the UNFPA Supplies Partnership, the Humanitarian Office, and the Country Offices in the region.

You are tasked with supporting the Head of Country Support and Monitoring on regional efforts to strengthen national forecasting/quantification, procurement planning, introduction of new products, and strengthening downstream supply chain management, ensuring "end-to-end" visibility and effective distribution of UNFPA donated commodities, and identifying, troubleshooting, and implementing remedial action plans from the Last Mile Assurance (LMA) process recommendations for the countries in the Region.


The role will also contribute to relevant data collection and consolidation processes, developing guidelines and tools, and ensuring interagency coordination and maintaining relevant partnerships and facilitating/monitoring compliance with policies.

You will support the provision of relevant advice and capacity building in the forecasting/quantification as well as development and validation of national supply plans, procurement plans for countries in the Region, and guidance on distribution, inventory, and warehouse management, in line with good storage practices for health products.

You will work in close collaboration with the Technical Division, UNFPA Supplies Partnership, Supply Chain Management Unit, Humanitarian Office, Country Offices in the Region, and key Third Party-Procurement clients, ensuring timeliness, adequacy and relevance and quality of substantive outputs.


Qualifications and Experience:

Education:
Advanced university degree in Medical Science, Pharmacy, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Logistics or equivalent field is required.

A first level university degree combined with a professional Supply Chain Management certification such as CIPS at Level 5 Advanced Diploma and/or CILT at any of the Level 5 qualification may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.


Knowledge and Experience:

A minimum of five years of relevant progressively responsible professional experience, including management experience of managing people and/or health projects at the international level, with ideally at least two years spent in low resource or humanitarian settings.

Minimum of three years of substantive experience in health commodity quantification, forecasting, supply management, warehousing, distribution, logistics information systems.
Demonstrated experience and successful track record in public health SCM strategy and network design creation and implementation.
Experience providing direct and successful country support on public health SCM in development and ideally complex humanitarian operating environments.
Experience in developing analytical tools for management reporting and performance metrics in supply chain.

Basic knowledge of the principles and operational aspects of integrated SRH health care in the global development and humanitarian community is an additional asset.

Demonstrated expertise in family planning method mix, contraceptive technology and humanitarian preparedness and prepositioning.

Professional written and spoken presentation skills, including for the development of reports, presentations, and the ability to synthesize complex technical documents for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Strong interpersonal skills and capability to develop and maintain broad diversified partnerships.
Familiarity with UN agencies procurement and supply chain management policies, and guidelines is an asset.

Languages:
Fluency in English and Spanish is required. Working knowledge of French is an asset.

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