The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

The Gender Equality Division’s mission it to ensure women and girls in Africa and South Asia can enjoy good health, make their own choices, earn their own money, and be leaders in their societies. When women and girls have an equal chance to thrive and lead, everyone benefits. We know that women and girls are not a monolith. A woman’s experience and the barriers she faces are different depending on factors like where she lives, how old she is, and how much money her family has—alongside other factors including her race, caste, and education level. We seek to address these compounding barriers through deep partnership with our grantees. As a philanthropy, our role is to listen to and learn from these experts. We take risks in new areas, prove concepts, and bring these ideas to governments, partner organizations, and private sector companies to scale. The Gender Equality (GE) Division builds off our existing strengths as a foundation in areas like global health and data, partnering closely with all of all our global divisions.

The Women’s Health Innovations (WHI) team under the GE Division is focused on developing and accelerating the introduction and scale of interventions that disproportionately impact health and economic outcomes for women and girls. WHI covers the areas of contraception, STI’s, and gynecology/menstrual health across R&D, manufacturing, procurement, supply chain, and introduction.

Your Role

As the Senior Program Officer for Supply Chain, you will report to the Deputy Director of Product Introduction and Market Access for WHI and will be expected to work in a hybrid work arrangement from our Seattle, WA office.  You will work with partners to lead investments and support work focused on optimizing supply chain governance and operations at global levels for key Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) procurers (e.g., UNFPA, USAID, etc)  in addition to improving the SRH commodities inventory tracking for priority products and geographies.  

 

What You’ll Do  

Work with key partners, both internal and external, to identify and address key bottlenecks towards improving efficiency of SRH commodities procurement and delivery to countries from manufacturers 

Partner with key country leads (internal and external) to test and identify models for scale-up for tracking supply chain data of FP commodities (initiating with priority commodities such as DMPA-SC) in key geographies (to be aligned with DD, Product Introduction & Market Access)  

Lead our portfolio of grants to improve procurement outcomes and ensure project key performance indicators are met, ensuring grantees are successful in achieving project outcomes. 

 

Your Responsibilities Include: 

 

At global levels:  

Working with key procurers of SRH commodities to map out their processes in detail from invoicing until delivery of products.  

Understand decision-making approach and processes to guide supply chain operations globally for procurer. 

Identify key bottlenecks for securing on-time deliveries for in-full orders to countries and work with partner(s) to develop and implement potential solutions to address key bottlenecks 

Work with partners to determine key supply chain indicators for teams and partners to track operations regularly at global levels  

Serve as key supply chains lead for FP for both internal and external stakeholders 

 

For Priority Geographies: 

Work with key BMGF regional and country offices to understand current supply chain inventory tracking tools to understand tools/components to be leveraged and areas for WHI supply chain work to complement (e.g., Understand data gaps for supply chain tracking).  

Identify and work with partners to track inventory movement of DMPA-SC and other priority methods from receipt of product in-country to delivery at final service delivery point or point-of-sale.  

Consolidate and analyze data from inventory tracking across countries to develop key hypotheses for optimizing supply chain bottlenecks for priority methods, including helping to identify potential market failures that could be leading to supply chain bottlenecks/failures 

 

Your Experience

Degree in engineering, operations management, or a scientific field. Masters in engineering, operations or MBA a plus. 

Demonstrated experience in supply chain management (preferably for large, multinational organization) 

Expertise in GMP compliance; key regulatory body compliance (e.g., FDA, EMA) beneficial 

Comprehensive and lived experience working in LMIC preferred 

Experience working in pharmaceutical, consumer health, or FMCG industry preferred 

Demonstrated strong analytical skills  

Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and to develop and maintain strong business partner relationships 

Innovative, proactive, and resourceful; committed to quality and continuous improvement 

Ability to anticipate and mitigate challenges 

Strong interpersonal and communication skills 

Hands-on team player willing to work in an environment where individual initiative, accountability, and professional maturity are required 

Able to synthesize information into a presentation appropriate to the organizational-level of the audience 

Strong PC experience, Microsoft Office Suite experience required including; Excel; Outlook; PowerPoint 

Oracle EBS / Advance Supply Chain Planning or SAP experience a plus  

*Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship. 

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The salary range for this role is $204,600 to $317,000 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $222,900 to $345,500 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Candidate Accommodations

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Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.