Job Description

Job Summary

Responsible for the management and coordination of medical and non-medical supplies in order to ensure compliance to policies, rules, systems and procedures of therapeutic drug management at ZDF health facilities. The manager will coordinate support for HIV/AIDS commodities and supplies helping to guide the overall project approach and strategy for supply chain issues. S/he will interface with senior officials in the GRZ, ZDF, and MSL, to resolve issues and ensure efficiencies in the supply chain system.

Roles & Responsiblilties

• Strengthen public sector medical/supply and commodity procurement capacity
• Improve use of medicines and more effective pharmaceutical services
• Strengthen GRZ strategic planning and management capacity
• Improve availability of commodities including supplies at site level
• Improved logistics management information systems
• Monitor stock levels at all levels.
• Build capacity of programmatic and procurement staff to identify re-order points for commodities, packaging, promotional, and other materials.
• Assist program staff and regional sites to forecast required needs accurately and to request for supplies/stocks in a timely manner.
• Supporting coordination efforts between USG supply chain implementing partners.
• Attend relevant TWG meetings and represent the project
• Monitor communication channels between programmatic and supply chain staff to avoid bottlenecks and miscommunications. Share key reports with all relevant users.
• Identify training needs and secure training and development activities, including providing on the job support to pharmaceutical personnel in ZDF health facilities
• Making recommendations, with appropriate counterparts, regarding commodity management and distribution for PEPFAR supported medicines or commodities, such as treatment regimens, laboratory reagents, equipment, male circumcision (MC) kits and TB
• Ensure the procurement of all health commodities and pharmaceutical products is in line with international and national (Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority) regulations and s/he must sit on the evaluation committee prior to purchase.
• Monitor and control the distribution of all SFHs pharmaceutical and allied products on behalf of the organization in all the platforms and sites in conjunction with partner organizations.
• Follow up on compliance and payment of statutory fees with Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZMRA).
• Other tasks as needed

Required Qualifications, Knowledge And Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Pharmaceuticals
• A registered member of ZIPS, CIPS, and Health Professions Council of Zambia
• Knowledge on pharmaceutical regulatory requirements
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience at management level
• Three (3) years’ experience with management of activities for laboratory, pharmaceutical and public health supply chain; including designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating activities in the delivery of supply chain and pharmaceutical management programs.
• Relevant experience in the following areas:
• Design and project management of programs to build national systems capacity required.
• Procurement and supply chain management, or other relevant pharmacy or health commodities logistics sector.
• Working with priority health programs (HIV & TB), as well as supply chain and pharmaceutical management systems specific to HIV & TB
• Knowledge and experience of ICT based office tools and applications (word processing, spreadsheets, databases, PowerPoint)

Skills Requirement

• Negotiating
• Being amicable
• Being self motivated, proactive and dynamic
• Presentation and communication in different settings
• Being analytical
• Being professional, organized and diligent
• Risk management
• Flexibility
• Leadership

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