United States of America: Senior Supply Chain Analyst, Planning and Ordering

Position Overview: The Senior Supply Chain Analyst for Planning and Ordering plays an important role in supply chain optimization and will execute day to day operations while leading project components and executing process improvements. This individual must be comfortable conducting and thinking creatively about data analysis and working with vendors to execute orders essential for the delivery of care. They should be detail oriented, organized, and proactive, with a passion and commitment for system improvements and serving PIH’s patients around the world. The position is full time and reports to the Supply Chain Manager for Planning and Ordering.

Responsibilities:

Planning and Ordering (50%):

• Work with requestors to understand specifications and timelines for orders
• Request and analyze quotations, including for comprehensive bids and for new clinical items
• Create purchase orders in ERP system and confirm orders with vendors
• Work with vendors to track and coordinate shipping timelines and back orders; provide feedback to vendors on performance and work to improve and diversity vendor relationships
• Maintain regular communication with team members at sites about ongoing projects and orders
• Act as supply chain point person for assigned sites and departments; communicate site needs and priorities to colleagues and managers, with particular attention to identifying supply chain risks
• Support annual and grant-specific budgeting and reporting processes

Data analysis and systems (40%)

• Act as primary point of contact for data analysis and tracking for specified orders including hundreds of clinical items
• Conduct ad hoc data analysis as requested, including for forecasting, budgeting, and donor reporting
• Systematically review data quality in supply chain software systems and support processes for data quality improvement and electronic systems improvement
• Design and generate reports and dashboards for internal and external consumption using Excel and PowerBI

General (10%):

• Represent supply chain and logistics work to other departments and internal stakeholders
• Ensure compliance with all supply chain policies and procedures, as well as those of relevant funders; Identify areas of weakness and work with manager to improve them.

Qualifications:

Required

• At least five years’ relevant experience or equivalent training/education
• Intermediate Excel skills, including comfort with lookups, if statements, and pivot tables
• Demonstrated success managing data sets with attention to detail
• Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems or Logistics Management Information Systems (LMIS) or proven ability to learn new systems quickly
• Experience implementing process improvements
• Willingness to do important repetitive tasks and data entry and ability to see their connection to larger team and organizational goals
• Ability to follow established processes
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing priorities
• Service-oriented mindset and strong communication skills

• Ability to work well with a diverse team, honoring the concerns and priorities of staff in field sites*Preferred*

• Experience with international pharmaceutical and/or medical supply procurement

• Advanced Excel skills

• Demonstrated success using Access, PowerBI, or other reporting platforms to design reports for diverse stakeholders

• Experience working on multi-country donor funded projects

• Experience working in developing countries

• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time

• French or Haitian Creole language skills

• Exemplary interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate effectively with culturally diverse staff across departments and country.

• Interest in social justice strongly desirable.

Organizational Profile

Partners In Health (PIH) is an international health organization relentlessly committed to improving the health of the poor and marginalized. PIH partners with local governments to build local capacity and works closely with impoverished communities to deliver high-quality health care, address the root causes of illness, train providers, advance research, and advocate for global policy change.

PIH currently has implementation programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Liberia, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Sierra Leone and Navajo Nation. Through our partnership with Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, we support a wide range of programs in dozens of other countries around the world.

PartnersInHealth (PIH) is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for every prospective and current employee. It is the policy of PIH not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex and gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. PIH works in and witha number ofgovernments in and outside the U.S., and to the extent applicable, this statement is intended to incorporate the prohibition of any unlawful discrimination covered by applicable laws in such countries, states and municipalities.

To apply, visit the PIH Careers Page!