Market Access Lead, Innovations for Enhanced Access to Oxygen, Market Dynamics

Required Experience:

• Master’s degree in business administration, economics, supply chain management, public policy, or similar degree required, along with 10-15 years of work experience.
  
• Significant business expertise with demonstrated experience in contract negotiation, budget oversight, and business strategy and operations.
  
• Demonstrated ability to manage multidisciplinary teams and work effectively within large consortia of other research and implementation partners.
  
• Excellent interpersonal, networking, and diplomacy skills; demonstrated fluency in navigating high-level engagements with senior leaders in government, multilateral, and donor agencies.
  
• Experience managing in a flexible and changing environment, with ability to adjust plans and direction in response to local feedback and project iteration cycles.
  
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; demonstrated ability to quickly develop compelling memos, concept notes, and presentation slides, and speak to them effectively.
  

• Lead the design of business model pilots across all project countries (India, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Senegal)
  
• Facilitate pilot co-design process involving project leadership, consortium partners, ministries of health, and project advisory board
  
• Oversee research protocol and evaluation plan development, with guidance from international research partners and country teams
  
• Provide ongoing technical guidance to country teams through pilot launch and operation
  
• Oversee the PATH Kenya team in launching and executing business model pilots in Kenya
  
• Engage relevant government and business stakeholders to maintain political buy-in
  
• Conduct preparatory activities such as training material development or facility preparation
  
• Deliver tailored technical assistance to business model pilot firms, e.g., optimizing service delivery efficiency, refining revenue streams, and preparing financial models.
  
• Oversee outcomes data collection as directed by research protocol/evaluation plan
  
• Collaborate with PATH global and advocacy teams to scale up promising INNOVATE business model interventions across the East Africa region:
  
• Engage investors and catalytic capital providers in the health and manufacturing sectors.
  
• Disseminate business model study findings via publications and technical working groups.
  
• Develop advocacy materials showcasing the cost/health impact of tested interventions.
  
• Lead broader strategic engagement with external stakeholders to develop new business and establish PATH thought leadership in the market access space
  
• Engage senior officials from the Ministry of Health (MOH) and other ministries to build relationships and identify opportunities for PATH to support government objectives.
  
• Build and maintain relationships with other relevant local and regional leaders and influencers (e.g., procurement agencies, professional organizations, regional multilateral bodies) to establish PATH as a thought leader in key market access policy/strategy areas.
  
• Build and maintain Kenya’s advocacy impact strategy for INNOVATE to understand and influence existing gaps in policy and financing prioritization for oxygen access.
  
• Identify and engage government, multilateral, and private funding sources to provide catalytic/scale-up funding for successful technology and business model innovations.
  
• Help develop new proposals, concept notes, and investment pitches by providing market shaping and market access technical inputs.