Founded in 2002 by President William J. Clinton, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) works to broaden access to life-saving treatment for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria patients in the poorest parts of the world. As part of this mission, CHAI’s “Access Programs” approach global public health challenges with market-based strategies, using simultaneous engagement on both the supply and demand sides of the market. On the supply side, CHAI engages with suppliers of essential drugs and diagnostics to improve access to products by lowering prices, accelerating new products to market, and sharing market intelligence. On the demand side, CHAI organizes and consolidates demand for health commodities by helping governments to scale up treatment programs, mobilize new resources, improve procurement processes, and enhance local human resource capacity. Working with over 30 governments and other partners, CHAI is focused on large-scale impact on many of the largest barriers to effective treatment and care.
The Supply Chain and Access team, India, is a key source of support for the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), India. The team works to holistically transform NACO’s supply chain at a systemic level, primarily for all HIV commodities. This involves working closely with the Central Government, State Governments as well as the point-of-care (POC) facilities across the country. The team also works on in-country access initiatives which includes national forecasting of HIV commodities, regimen optimization, increasing uptake and quality control.
More specifically, the objectives driving the team include influencing policy level decision making to reduce the number of expiries of expensive, life-saving medicines; eliminate stock-outs of the same and improve access to treatment for the patient. The Indian HIV Program has more than 1,300,000 patients on HIV treatment and encompasses over 38 State AIDS Control Society (SACS) warehouses, regional warehouses, 18,000 POC facilities and US$ 200 million worth of HIV commodities.
Position:
The Sr. Associate – Supply Chain Management in Access and Supply Chain Team will extensively work towards implementation of systems and processes to help strengthen the existing logistics practices to manage commodities across different nodes in the supply chain. The team has rolled-out a cloud based inventory management and patient tracking solution utilizing barcoding technology across all NACO sites as mentioned above. This has enabled the program to have access to complete stock and patient related data and hence build capacity for decision making based on quality data. The plan now is to extend the system so as to strengthen national forecasting and procurement process, reduce expiries and stock-outs of HIV commodities, and ultimately save lives of patients.
CHAI places great value on relevant personal qualities: resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, independence, energy, and work ethic. We seek a highly committed and adaptable individual with a track record of delivering quality results with limited resources. The individual must be able to function independently and flexibly in a swift manner.
+ Conceptualize, plan and coordinate strategic initiatives with key stakeholders for strengthening supply chain processes; design and align supply chain processes and systems following industry best practices
+ Lead the process of evaluation and implementation of supply chain solutions; Manage and organise initiatives for addressing complex supply chain challenges
+ Identify partner organizations active in strengthening supply chain systems and leverage existing solutions that can be scaled-up
+ Provide technical leadership in the design of supply chain tools and reporting framework
+ Other responsibities as needed
+ Master’s Degree (preferably in Operations Research, Supply Chain, Business Management); or Bachelor's minimum with exceptional experience
+ 7-10 years of work experience, with at least 4 years in operations/supply chain management/supply chain consulting
+ Ability to demonstrate creative thinking to solve major challenges faced in supply chain management especially in the public health sector
+ Field implementation experience of multiple successful projects, preferably technical interventions in supply chain domain such as Warehouse Management System, Logistics Management Information System
+ Project management experience, including design and implementation of interventions done for supply chain strengthening, engaging in capacity building, and effective work planning
+ Intermediate knowledge of statistical packages like R, SPSS, STATA or SAS for analysing large datasets, benchmarking, forecasting and optimizing procurement
+ High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word