Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., Pharmacy, Marketing, Business, other health related field) is preferred.
  
• 3–5 years of relevant professional experience in public health, preferably with exposure to pharmaceutical retail, or service delivery scale-up; experience with similar projects is an added advantage.
  
• Strong supply chain/logistics expertise (especially in rural, low-resource settings). Familiarity with 3PL management, PMR landscape, wholesaler engagement, and peer detailing models.
  
• In-depth knowledge of pharmaceutical products, market dynamics, and the healthcare landscape is a strong advantage.
  
• Demonstrated project management experience, including the ability to lead, plan, execute, and monitor multiple workstreams while ensuring timely, high-quality deliverables.
  
• Proactive and resourceful, with strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
  
• Ability to analyse market data, interpret trends, and develop data-driven strategies.
  

• Provide strategic oversight of state-level implementation to ensure effective execution, quality, and accountability of all project components across target locations.
  
• Facilitate smooth implementation of program activities in line with the established workplan, ensuring timely reporting of progress, challenges, and risks to the country and global program teams.
  
• Support the planning and coordination of commodity procurement processes, including forecasting needs, developing procurement plans, and liaising with vendors to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of malaria commodities to the state.
  
• Coordinate comprehensive pharmaceutical retailers’ (PMRs) mapping in the project states to improve understanding of the landscape and to support identification of PMRs in the project states that will be engaged in the project.
  
• Map and engage private sector pharmaceutical distributors and suppliers to support implementation of project in the program states including defining suppliers’ scope of work, support contract management, project implementation and reporting.
  
• Lead and undertake malaria commodities’ market intelligence assessments including conducting field assessments, stakeholder engagements, developing periodic and comprehensive market intelligence reports to drive better understanding of the malaria market both nationally and in the project states.
  
• Coordinate the development of technical materials, including training content, implementation guides, and data collection tools to support effective program delivery.