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.
About Relief International
Relief International (RI) is a leading nonprofit organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
About the opportunity
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
About you
You will bring the following experience and skills.
You will have proven experience
with working in an international procurement team procuring medical supplies internationally and organising freight and export/import documents
With leading on procurements from international quality assured medical suppliers (
With leading on international medical supply freight deliveries, with working knowledge of international freight suppliers
Of global medical procurement standards, including from BHA and Echo
With working collaboratively with stakeholders from across multiple cultures, background and technical areas to achieve deliverables
With leadership skills in working collaboratively with donors, host country institutions, and international organizations.
You must also be able to demonstrate you bring
Supporting medical procurement and supply chains in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Yemen and/or Syria would be a significant advantage
An understanding of medical product quality assurance certificates
As a supply chain professional, medical procurement or supply chain qualification from an internationally recognised institution
Good working knowledge of donor and other international medical quality assurance standards
How to apply.
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As a humanitarian organization, Relief International is committed to the safeguarding of all those we come into contact with through our work. We are committed to the core humanitarian principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse. Relief International expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and uphold the values and behaviors outlined in the Code of Conduct.
Recruitment to all roles in Relief International include a criminal records self-declaration, references, and other pre-employment checks, which may include police and qualifications checks.
Relief International is an international non-profit organization that partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience and promote long-term health and wellbeing.
People living in fragile settings face complex, interconnected and deep-rooted crises that often tear a hole in the social fabric of communities. When this happens, our teams work closely with community leaders; first focusing on critical health needs, and then, as communities recover, focusing on both health and wellbeing programming that helps reweave the social fabric for greater resilience in the future.
Our team of more than 7,000 staff and local volunteers work in 15 countries across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, providing Health and Nutrition, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), Education and Livelihoods programming that is safe, truly local, conflict sensitive, climate smart, evidence based, and reaches those in need.
Relief International is a 60-year-old international NGO alliance that is the product of mergers and alliances between four organizations. Today, Relief International is comprised of Relief International, Inc., Relief International-France, Relief International-UK and Relief International-Europe, all of which are led by a single senior leadership team.
