Specialist, Regional Manufacturing - GL D -Temporary until December 2025
The Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Publication date:
26 October 2024Workload:
100%- Place of work:Geneva
Specialist, Regional Manufacturing - GL D -Temporary until December 2025
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.
In addition to facilitating access to health products internationally, the Global Fund supports the production of health products closer to the people and communities it serves. Strong procurement systems and responsive supply chains are essential for ensuring that the right health products get to the right place at the right time. Strengthening procurement and supply chain capacities at the national and regional levels remains a priority for the Global Fund.
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 ensuring compliance, driving innovation, sustainability and new product introductions, and importantly supporting country capacity building, contributing to more resilient and agile regional and national health care supply chains.
To implement the Global Fund’s 2023-2028 Strategy, the Supply Operations (SO) department has recently introduced a new operating model, aiming to achieve accelerated value contributions to the communities and people we serve more effectively and efficiently. In addition, a NextGen Market Shaping approach has been developed to drive equitable access to quality assured health products, which includes efforts to promote capacity building for manufacturing in the regions the Global Fund serves, particularly in Africa. Global Fund’s focus is on supporting the establishment of regional manufacturing capacity, rather than local, as a network approach will more sustainably match supply to demand and avoid proliferation of underutilized capacities at the local level.
While the Global Fund has long promoted a diverse and competitive supply base through its tender process to secure sufficient and equitable supply of health products, it intends to do more to shape the market to encourage additional opportunities for regional manufacturing and procurement. The Global Fund has conducted an initial landscape analysis and consulted stakeholders to identify key bottlenecks for regional manufacturing. The Global Fund is now in the process of initiating joint workstreams with partners and detailing implementation roadmaps to guide Global Fund’s activities and catalytic investments in the current grant cycle (2024 – 2026). These include, but are not limited to, efforts to support accelerated product qualification and country demand forecasting, engagement with regional procurement platforms and consortiums to increase sustainable capacity and support for regulatory strengthening and harmonization.
Under the supervision of the Manager, Market Shaping and Partnership and working closely with teams across Supply Operations, the Specialist, Regional Manufacturing will drive the work to identify, develop and implement interventions and partnerships to build sustainable capacity for regional manufacturing and procurement across regions, especially in Africa. This will include working closely with stakeholders to ensure all activities contribute to the goals set out in the 2023-2028 Global Fund strategy and its NextGen Market Shaping approach, complement the growing number of external initiatives on this topic, and are compliant with Global Fund’s policies and procedures.
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.
In addition to facilitating access to health products internationally, the Global Fund supports the production of health products closer to the people and communities it serves. Strong procurement systems and responsive supply chains are essential for ensuring that the right health products get to the right place at the right time. Strengthening procurement and supply chain capacities at the national and regional levels remains a priority for the Global Fund.
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 ensuring compliance, driving innovation, sustainability and new product introductions, and importantly supporting country capacity building, contributing to more resilient and agile regional and national health care supply chains.
To implement the Global Fund’s 2023-2028 Strategy, the Supply Operations (SO) department has recently introduced a new operating model, aiming to achieve accelerated value contributions to the communities and people we serve more effectively and efficiently. In addition, a NextGen Market Shaping approach has been developed to drive equitable access to quality assured health products, which includes efforts to promote capacity building for manufacturing in the regions the Global Fund serves, particularly in Africa. Global Fund’s focus is on supporting the establishment of regional manufacturing capacity, rather than local, as a network approach will more sustainably match supply to demand and avoid proliferation of underutilized capacities at the local level.
While the Global Fund has long promoted a diverse and competitive supply base through its tender process to secure sufficient and equitable supply of health products, it intends to do more to shape the market to encourage additional opportunities for regional manufacturing and procurement. The Global Fund has conducted an initial landscape analysis and consulted stakeholders to identify key bottlenecks for regional manufacturing. The Global Fund is now in the process of initiating joint workstreams with partners and detailing implementation roadmaps to guide Global Fund’s activities and catalytic investments in the current grant cycle (2024 – 2026). These include, but are not limited to, efforts to support accelerated product qualification and country demand forecasting, engagement with regional procurement platforms and consortiums to increase sustainable capacity and support for regulatory strengthening and harmonization.
Under the supervision of the Manager, Market Shaping and Partnership and working closely with teams across Supply Operations, the Specialist, Regional Manufacturing will drive the work to identify, develop and implement interventions and partnerships to build sustainable capacity for regional manufacturing and procurement across regions, especially in Africa. This will include working closely with stakeholders to ensure all activities contribute to the goals set out in the 2023-2028 Global Fund strategy and its NextGen Market Shaping approach, complement the growing number of external initiatives on this topic, and are compliant with Global Fund’s policies and procedures.
Key Responsibilities
- Building on existing work, map key bottlenecks and opportunities for accelerating regional procurement and manufacturing initiatives across regions, including mapping existing initiatives led by partners and potential synergies with Global Fund’s comparative advantages;
- Working closely with internal and external partners, define the Global Fund’s ambition in regional manufacturing, identify and prioritize a set of regionally-driven interventions to drive capacity building for regional manufacturing, including pooled procurement platforms, and drive their implementation;
- Assess relevant market-level risks and implications for Global Fund policies and practices, developing risk mitigation and management approaches as needed;
- Lead the development of implementation roadmaps and strategic partnerships with key global and regional partners, including facilitating workshops and meetings as required, incl. but not limited to WHO, FIND, Unitaid, World Bank, MMV, MPP, African Union, Africa CDC, Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP), Southern African Development Community (SADC), East African Community (EAC), Pan American Health Organization, and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN);
- Consolidate across roadmaps and Supply Operations teams to ensure there is a coherent Global Fund approach to capacity building for regional manufacturing that is catalytic and well aligned with Global Fund’s overall strategy and contributes to the vision of the NextGen Market-Shaping Framework;
- Drive and monitor the progress of the NextGen Market Shaping Strategic Initiative (SI) with a focus on interventions related to capacity-building for regional manufacturing and procurement;
- Provide technical advice, guidance and drive the design of interventions to ensure activities are fully compliant with relevant Global Fund policies and procedures;
- In close coordination with the External Relations and Communications Department, lead day-to-day coordination with donors and partners on topics related to capacity building for regional manufacturing and procurement and serve as Global Fund representative at key events and in relevant working groups;
- Be an integral member of the Supply Operations Department and the Strategy, Procedure and Innovation team, helping to build a high-performance, inclusive and collaborative team culture.
Subject to change by the Executive Director at any time at their sole discretion.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Advanced university degree (Master’s Degree or equivalent) in finance, economics, public health, business administration, science, or other related field
Experience
Essential:
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Experience in either pharmaceutical or health device manufacturing, supply operations, strategy development or procurement;
- Proven experience conceptualizing, developing and implementing multi-stakeholder strategies and roadmaps;
- Experience working with donors, multilateral organizations, suppliers, development finance institutions, regulators and/or national policy makers;
- Proven experience in influencing and consensus building in highly-political or multilateral settings and among partners with different objectives;
- Experience presenting at high profile events and navigating political spaces to effectively represent an institutional position;
- Strong evidence of successfully leading projects requiring project management skills and capabilities, including planning, co-ordinating and managing multiple activities;
- Experience preparing documents and presentations for executive audiences;
- Experience living and/or working in a country supported by the Global Fund.
Desirable:
- At least seven years of experience in the public and private sector and working in a consulting/advisory role.
- Knowledge of the Global Fund business model and experience or exposure to Global Fund policies and processes.
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
- Procurement & Supply Chain – Level 3
- Risk – Level 1
- Project Management – Level 2
- Business – Level 2
- Analytical – Level 2
- Communication – Level 2
- Disease Knowledge – Level 2
- Global Public Health – Level 2
- Geopolitical Awareness – Level 3
Functional 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 to manage and deliver on multiple timelines with tight deadlines and across disciplines
- Understanding of political strategies and how to navigate those political spaces in order to represent Global Fund effectively
- Track-record in strategic thinking and creative problem-solving
- Strong experience demonstrating strategic thinking, business focus, results-orientated with an excellent understanding of how to influence stakeholders to ensure effective & impactful investment and use of resources for greater impact
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Job Posting End Date
10 November 2024