Senior Supply Chain Advisor

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔗 Supply Chain

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Ipas

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201 - 500 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

Healthcare • Consulting • Legal

Ipas is an organization dedicated to advancing reproductive justice by expanding access to abortion and contraception through a comprehensive approach addressing health, legal, and social systems. The organization believes in every person's right to bodily autonomy and aims to ensure that reproductive health services are available and accessible across Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Their specialties include women's reproductive health services, safe abortion, and sexual and reproductive rights.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic leadership to ensure reliable access to safe abortion commodities, contraceptives, and gender-based violence management supplies • Serve as subject matter expert on global health supply chain technical issues • Lead Ipas’s supply chain management approach across its network • Provide technical leadership and support at global, regional, and country levels • Support countries in assessing reproductive health commodity system gaps and implementing corrective actions • Improve forecasting, quantification, procurement, warehousing, distribution, transportation, quality assurance, and logistics management information systems • Design and optimize supply chain strategies, tools, and frameworks with country programs, governments, and partners • Build national capacity through training, mentoring, curriculum development, and knowledge transfer • Strengthen partnerships with national, regional, and international experts and organizations • Promote evidence-based approaches, innovation, lessons learned, data visibility, and continuous improvement • Establish quality assurance, sustainability assessment, monitoring, evaluation frameworks, and KPIs • Mitigate disruptions through risk management, contingency planning, supplier diversification, and regulatory compliance • Foster innovation in procurement, market shaping, inventory management, distribution, and technology-enabled stock management • Support advocacy to integrate abortion commodities into essential medicine lists and support registration and marketing authorization • Leverage private-sector supply chain capacity for innovative packaging, distribution, and user-experience documentation • Lead monitoring and evidence synthesis on the safety and quality of abortion commodities for pharmacovigilance efforts • Contribute to project design, proposal development, opportunity prospecting, donor and partner calls, and financial reviews • Assist procurement and contracting teams with product quality assurance assessments and vendor certification vetting • Represent and advocate for abortion supply planning priorities with coalitions, working groups, NGOs, multilateral partners, UN agencies, the World Bank Group, WHO, and donors • Contribute to evidence generation and knowledge sharing through networks, technical forums, and international conferences

🎯 Requirements

• Role is open to candidates based in Africa only • Deep commitment to sexual and reproductive health and rights, especially abortion and contraception access • Significant experience in supply chain system assessment, forecasting and quantification, procurement, inventory control, distribution systems, and management information systems • Experience working with private sector partners, including pharmacies, community distribution systems, and digital health platforms • Professional-level fluency in English • Proven ability to lead and motivate teams and foster a positive work environment • Strong skills in work planning, budgeting, financial monitoring, and data-driven problem solving • Proven ability to build positive working relationships with diverse internal teams and external partners • Excellent interpersonal, communication, and sound judgment skills • Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint • Excellent knowledge of and experience working with country and/or regional health system entities • Advanced degree (master’s or equivalent) in public health, supply chain management, logistics, health system strengthening, pharmacy, or related medical field • Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in global health supply chain management, focused on reproductive health commodity supply chains • Strong quantitative analysis and forecasting skills • Experience working in low-resource or humanitarian settings • Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance to global health programs • Demonstrated experience in global health commodity supply chain management • Knowledge of technical issues related to global health commodity procurement • Demonstrated ability in strategic planning, program management, and implementation in low- and middle-income countries • Experience working on sustainable commodity access programs • Experience facilitating training and providing technical assistance to country teams, including through remote support • Flexibility to meet virtually in different time zones • Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time internationally, including in crisis settings

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Flexibility to meet virtually in different time zones • Ability and willingness to travel internationally up to 25% of the time • Supportive supervision and shared leadership environment • Globally networked organization grounded in local expertise and lived experience