Global Supply Planning and Commodity Risk Analysis
- Lead development and dissemination of a consolidated quarterly aggregated supply plan report across the four project-supported countries, highlighting current and project stockouts, procurement delays, funding gaps, excess stock and expiry risks.
- Collect, validate, analyze, and synthesize forecasting, inventory, procurement, shipment, and consumption data from country teams.
- Develop and maintain methodologies for identifying and tracking stock-out risks, overstock risks, expiries, pipeline gaps, and funding shortfalls.
- Produce country-level and cross-country analyses of commodity availability for:
- Malaria commodities
- MNCH commodities (Burkina Faso and Niger only)
- Prepare dashboards, risk summaries, and visualization products for internal and donor reporting.
- Monitor supply chain performance indicators and trends to enable proactive risk mitigation and decision-making.
- Collaborate with technical and program teams to ensure data consistency and timely reporting.
Technical Assistance and Capacity Strengthening
- Provide ongoing technical support to country teams in Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal, and Ghana on forecasting, quantification, and supply planning processes.
- Support quarterly supply planning reviews and stock status assessments.
- Facilitate routine review meetings focused on commodity availability, procurement planning, and supply chain risks.
- Strengthen country capacity to interpret supply chain data and use analytical outputs for decision-making.
- Support the preparation and review of annual quantification exercises and commodity planning workshops.
Quantification Analytics Tool (QAT) Support
- Serve as a technical resource for implementation and effective use of the Quantification Analytics Tool (QAT).
- Support country teams in applying appropriate forecasting methodologies, including consumption-based, morbidity-based, demographic, and service statistics forecasting approaches.
- Guide users in developing forecasts, evaluating assumptions, comparing forecasting methods, and selecting final planning scenarios.
- Support country teams in translation of forecasts into supply plans and monitoring of procurement and delivery schedules.
- Provide technical assistance related to inventory monitoring, stock status analysis, shipment planning, and expiry management within QAT.
- Promote best practices for data management, standardization, and reporting using QAT.
- Support utilization of QAT interoperability features, data exports, and integrations with procurement and logistics management systems, as appropriate.
Stakeholder Engagement and Knowledge Management
- Coordinate with government stakeholders, implementing partners, procurement agents, donors, and PATH country offices to ensure timely access to critical supply chain data.
- Document lessons learned, best practices, and recommendations to improve forecasting and supply planning processes.
- Contribute to development of guidance documents, standard operating procedures, training materials, and reporting templates.
- Support donor reporting and technical presentations related to supply chain performance and commodity security.
Required Experience and Qualifications
- Master's degree in Supply Chain Management, Public Health, Pharmacy, Epidemiology, Business Administration, International Development, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum of seven years of experience in health supply chain management, forecasting, quantification, and supply planning in low- and middle-income countries.
- Demonstrated experience supporting U.S. Government-funded global health programs.
- Experience supporting commodity planning and supply chain strengthening for malaria programs; experience in additional health areas is desirable.
- Strong analytical skills and demonstrated experience interpreting supply chain, logistics, inventory, procurement, and consumption data.
- Experience facilitating quantification workshops, forecasting reviews, and supply planning exercises.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other data analysis tools.
- Experience using forecasting, quantification, and supply planning software platforms, preferably including QAT or comparable tools.
- Professional fluency in English and French.
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to work effectively across multiple countries and diverse stakeholder groups.
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally as required.
- Must have legal authorization to work in the country of hire.
- Experience supporting regional or multi-country supply chain programs.
- Familiarity with systems such as ARTMIS, LMIS, HMIS, Wambo, and related health information systems.
- Experience developing dashboards and using data visualization or business intelligence platforms.
- Knowledge of interoperability approaches, data integration, and API-enabled information exchange.
- Experience working in Sub-Saharan Africa and in humanitarian or fragile settings.
- Demonstrated experience strengthening local capacity and institutionalizing supply chain improvements.