Supply Chain Manager (For Myanmar National Only)

Logistics & Procurement

Overview

Manage supply chain for healthcare programs and ensure commodity availability.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy or supply chain required.
• Minimum Five (5) years experiences in Procurement and Supply Management of health and pharmaceutical products.
• Working experience with INGO in Myanmar will be an asset.
• Excellent computer skills, specifically with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook).
• Burmese language is a must and good working knowledge of English (spoken and written) required.
• Good analytical skills with the capability to focus in detail.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to develop and foster relationships both with SRs, Save the Children, GFATM/LFA colleagues, and others.
• Ability to think creatively to solve problems and find effective and efficient ways to accomplish goals.
• Commitment to Save the Children’s mission and values.
• 2 years of management experience.

TITLE: Supply Chain Manager (For Myanmar National Only)

TEAM/PROGRAMME: GFATM

Number of Position: 1

GRADE: NAT - 2

LOCATION: Yangon, Head Office

CONTRACT LENGTH: Fixed Term

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 1: The role holder will not have contact with children and/or young people, or access to personal data about children or young people, as part of their work; therefore, a police check will not be mandatory unless the content or location of the role changes, in which case the Child Safeguarding level will be reviewed.

ROLE PURPOSE:

Since January 2011, Save the Children International (SC) has been the co‐Principal Recipient (PR) of three grants under the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) funded program in Myanmar.

Procurement and Supply Management are a core function of the PR’s responsibilities and are essential for achievement of grant deliverables. The Supply Chain Manager is responsible for ensuring the availability of high quality medical commodities to support HIV, TB and malaria program implementation. Under the direct supervision of Senior PSM Manager, the Supply Chain Manager will work closely with the procurement team as well as the program team within the Global Fund Unit at SC Myanmar. This is a large and complex program with average running stock in Myanmar of $3 million, procuring over 300 different items each year.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Senior PSM Manager, SC-PR in Myanmar Staff reporting to this post: 4

Budget Responsibilities: None

Role Dimensions: Negotiation and representation with senior level representatives including government level decision makers, donors, wider SC community

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

• Ensure that SR forecasts and SR Supply Chain budget are reasonable, in line with program needs, policy compliant, and within the approved budget
• Lead the collect and review of the SR stock information
• Lead the analysis of the SR stock information and recommend actions to minimise shortage and expiry
• Lead the SR stock allocation process when the shipments arrive
• Lead the Product and Warehouse lists update
• Lead the SR supply chain performance monitoring through KPI and recommendation process
• Support the monitoring of the SR Good Storage and Distribution Practices of health product by joining monitoring visits
• Lead the forecast allocation by township for the import permit request to the National Programs
• Engage with National Programs for the smooth supply of commodities via State/Region
• Lead the response to the National Programs for any request related to supply chain.
• Manage the incinerator operation and solve the ad-hoc issue like insurance and security.
• Build capacity PR and SR staff capacity in supply chain management
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders on supply chain management

Child Safeguarding Responsibilities

• Develop and pilot practical day-to-day approaches to increase awareness, commitment and interest in child safeguarding amongst staff members.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy or supply chain required. Masters of Pharmacy or any other post graduate diploma in supply chain, or pharmaceutical/health related fields considered an added advantage.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Minimum Five (5) years experiences in Procurement and Supply Management of health and pharmaceutical products
• Working experience with INGO in Myanmar will be an asset.
• Excellent computer skills, specifically with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Burmese language is a must and good working knowledge of English (spoken and written) required.

Desirable

• Good analytical skills with the capability to focus in detail
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to develop and foster relationships both with SRs, Save the Children, GFATM/LFA colleagues, National program responsible as well as other key PSM stakeholders working in Myanmar
• Ability to think creatively to solve problems and find effective and efficient ways to accomplish goals
• Commitment to Save the Children’s mission and values
• 2 years of management experience

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All staff has an obligation and a responsibility to:

• Ensure they fully understand the provisions of the Child Safeguarding Policy, the Code of Conduct and Local/Country Procedures.
• Conduct themselves in accordance with the rules of the Child Safeguarding Policy, in their personal and professional lives – which includes reporting suspicions of child abuse.
• Ensure the way they are carrying out their work is not putting children at risk (or further risk) – this means constantly scrutinizing their work through a child safeguarding lens and talking to children about possible design/implementation “flaws”.
• Promote the message of child safeguarding to colleagues in other organizations and government ministries, children in their own and beneficiary families, and community members in general.
• Be vigilant about observing possible child abuse/harm in their personal and professional lives.

All managers have the above responsibilities as well as ensuring

• Their staff are doing the above.
• That child safeguarding is integrated and given a “voice” in all management processes including recruitment, induction, performance management, team meetings, annual planning processes, field level monitoring, etc.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

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Added 1 year ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: savethechildren.net