Medical Supply Chain & Procurement Manager

We are recruiting for a Medical Procurement Manager to be part of our International Procurement Unit (IPU) and lead on international medical procurement and freight, support national medical procurement, and support localisation of quality medical procurement, in the following Relief International (RI) country operations: Afghanistan, Yemen, Myanmar, and Syria.

This is a home based remote role requiring at least 30% travel.

This role will ideally based in the UK, USA, France, Kenya, Jordan, Turkey. We will also consider staff from other countries where RI operate.

Note you must have the right to work in your home location and that national terms and conditions apply.

This role is classified as requiring advanced pre-employment checks.

You will be working with the Deputy Director of Global Procurement to support medical procurement and freight, as well as improving organizational medical procurement processes.

This will include leading on all medical procurement within these 4 countries both local, regional and international while also supporting suppliers, developing relationships and ensuring best practice processes are developed and followed to enable timely and efficient quality local medical procurement to be achieved.

A key component of this role is to support an organizational initiative to invest in local medical suppliers to enable local quality assured medical sourcing.

Key Responsibilities

• Support medical procurement in the target countries to better understand the supply chain into and within these countries, as well as the local medical supplier capability. This includes

• supporting the target countries with all medical procurements, including managing international and local sourcing and delivery

• meeting with local suppliers to give feedback on quotes, orders regarding quality and performance to help suppliers improve

• support with setting up Framework Agreements with local medical suppliers to develop their understanding of the quality standards and procurement processes required by RI

• Document the supply chains used by RI and the local suppliers and the process, regulatory and local context challenges to RI sourcing local quality assured medical supplies
• Make recommendations to modify RI internal procurement processes to enable more local medical sourcing of quality assured supplies
• Support the development, implementation and continuous updating of an RI medical supply quality assurance certificates database that includes quality assurance certificates for medical products that suppliers in the target countries can source based on their supply chains