Qualifications and Experience:

• 7 – 10 years’ post-qualification in Pharmacy or any other public health-related field
  
• 5 – 7 years’ experience in project management, with a preference for health products management
  
• Significant operational and supply chain management experience in a developing country
  
• Strong management skills, demonstrated ability to supervise the performance of others to meet high quality and timely project deliverables.
  
• Ability to work in English (speaking and writing)
  
• Experience in project, budget and financial management
  

Programme Management

• Work with other members of the country team and the Senior Project Managers (SPM) to coordinate State-level activities involving health commodities for smooth project start up and project planning.
  
• Regularly collect, collate and analyse value for money parameters and recommend areas of efficiency gains for Malaria Consortium- Nigeria and stakeholder supply chain.
  
• Responsible for coordinating overall programme implementation and ensure activities are carried out on a time and within budget for the health commodity component of all programes
  

Project Supply Chain (National)

• Collate information and produce timely stock reconciliation reports on a monthly and basis for all stock within projects where Malaria Consortium-Nigeria is accountable
  
• Forecast needs and produce timely requisitions to ensure stock outs are avoided in all warehouses where Malaria Consortium- Nigeria is responsible for storage
  
• Monitor, with supervisory visits and documented spot checks, inventory storage and movement records in all warehouses where Malaria Consortium- Nigeria is accountable (including pharmaceutical good storage and good distribution practices)
  

System Strengthening

• Design training material on good storage and good distribution practices, tailored for both Malaria Consortium- Nigeria staff and partners
  
• Working in a collaborative way with relevant stakeholders to revising inventory management processes when required, ensuring input and agreement from all stakeholders before finalization
  
• Provide capacity building support to Malaria Consortium- Nigeria staff, local partners and MOH staff on warehouse and inventory management processes, documentation and data management
  

Private Sector Engagement

• Identify strategic opportunities at national and sub-national level to collaborate with private sector on accesses to medicines
  
• Work with pharmaceutical manufacturers across the world to ensure the provision of RLD (Reference List Drug)
  
• Develop and maintain strong network with the private and the public sector stakeholders in the malaria control market systems in Nigeria.