Specialist, Health Product Introduction

The Global Fund aims to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria as epidemics. We invest more than US$4 billion a year to support programs run by local experts in countries and communities most in need. Since 2020, through the COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM), additional funding has been made available to support countries to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.
As part of our mandate to fight the three diseases and increase access to quality-assured health products and services at affordable and sustainable prices, the Global Fund plays a leading role in global markets for medicines and technologies that prevent, diagnose, and treat HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Every year, more than half of the Global Fund’s investments is used to procure key health products, ensuring they are available to those who need them most.
The Global Fund’s Supply Operations Department, in collaboration across the Global Fund Secretariat, is responsible for the overall management of sourcing, procurement, quality assurance and supply chain related matters, including strategy formulation and implementation, development of policy guidelines and ensure compliances, drive innovation, sustainability agenda and new product introduction, and importantly support country capacity building contributing to a more resilient and agile national health care supply chain.
To implement the Global Fund’s 2023-2028 Strategy, Supply Operations has recently introduced a new operating model, aiming to achieve accelerated value contributions to the communities and people we serve more effectively and efficiently.
Supply Operations Strategy, Procedure & Innovation team is created to meet the evolving and pressing needs of drive more equitable access to innovative and quality assured health product in a more responsive and cost-effective delivery model, which would require strategic market interventions and partnerships to achieve.
Shape innovation and accelerated new product introduction at scale is one of the strategic interventions of the NextGen Market Shaping approach, aiming to drive equitable access to innovation and quality assured health products.
Under the supervision of the Manager, Market Shaping and Partnership, the Specialist, Health Product Introduction, will coordinate the execution of the implementation roadmap for the scaled introduction of selected innovative, new health products, ensure on time, on budget and quality delivery of the relevant catalytic investment appropriated for the agreed interventions.
S/he will play a critical role in collaborating across Supply Operations and key partners in supporting the teams with the Global Fund health product introduction framework, policy guidelines, project implementation, tracking and reporting on the progress against the accelerated health product introduction plans, including timely escalation, trouble shooting, and problem-solving process.
The Specialist, Health Product Introduction, will be responsible for coordinated stakeholder and partnership engagement on accelerated innovation introduction at scale, and ensure an integrated and synergetic approach across NextGen Market Shaping interventions.

• Proven experience in prior strategy focused roles within global organizations, including organizational planning and implementation of strategy
• Experience working with market shaping, health product introduction in Global Public Health organizations
• Demonstrated experience in successfully delivering on strategic priorities
• Proven experience working with teams across a diverse portfolio of programs
• Experience in innovation practice in health products and services, and experience operationalizing processes to support the translation of policies, programs, or services

• Global Fund awareness and mind-set: Level 2
• Service orientation: Level 2
• Drive for results: Level 2
• Collaboration: Level 2
• Interaction: Level 2
• Adaptability: Level 2

• Operational Policy: Level 2
• Communications: Level 3
• Project Management: Level 2
• Procurement and Supply Chain: Level 2
• Global Public Health: Level 2
• Disease knowledge: Level 2

• Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal skills, negotiation, consultation, influencing and stakeholder management skills
• High degree of personal initiative and resiliency in face of challenging stakeholder and difficult situations
• Ability influence, build relationships and manage large stakeholder groups to ensure outcomes
• Manage competing issues to deliver high quality outcomes within required deadlines
• Understanding of political strategies and how to navigate those political spaces in order to represent Global Fund affectively
• Working knowledge & understanding of project management principles and application in multicultural settings including international public and private organization
• Track-record in strategic thinking and creative problem-solving
• Analytic mindset and highly experienced in structuring complex problems
• Strong capabilities in fostering collaboration within and across Departments

05 February 2023