Program Manager, Global Markets

Clinton Health Access Initiative • or CHAI Program Country,

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low- and middle-income countries. CHAI works with governments and the private sector to create and sustain high-quality health systems. CHAI's Global Markets Team (GMT) focuses on building healthy marketplaces to ensure the sustainable supply of vital medical commodities. GMT assists life science companies in understanding product needs, sustainable pricing, and navigating regulatory and procurement environments in low- and middle-income countries. The team manages relationships with pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies, negotiating access programs, licensing agreements, product development agreements, and volume guarantees. The SUPREME program, funded by Unitaid, aims to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths in five countries by improving access to tools for pre-eclampsia/eclampsia and maternal anaemia. Within SUPREME, the SECURE project, led by CHAI, focuses on improving the availability and access to priority maternal health products. This Manager role will lead key diagnostic market-shaping activities for GMT related to SECURE and other priority areas. The primary objective is to design, maintain, and update CHAI’s global supply-and demand-side product strategies, manage relationships and negotiations with diagnostic companies, and collaborate with stakeholders to create markets for new, affordable, and high-quality diagnostic products in low- and middle-income markets. The Manager will also ensure coordination with other international and research organizations working in similar areas.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree plus 8 or more years of work experience
• Experience working in the private sector, ideally in strategy consulting, and/or investment banking or similar fast-paced, results-oriented environments such as in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostic or medical device industries
• Exceptional analytical (qualitative and quantitative) and communication (written and verbal) skills; detail oriented
• Creative thinker, enabling development of transformational solutions to complex global health problems
• Entrepreneurial mindset, including ability to work independently, self-motivate, propose and implement new ideas, and bring others along
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and set priorities
• Ability to absorb and synthesize a broad range of information, including financial, regulatory, diagnostic, and scientific information
• Strong desire to work in a fast-paced, multicultural environment; demonstrated ability to build strong relationships quickly, externally and internally
• Excellent manager with proven track record of delivering on complex, multistakeholder projects
• Willingness to travel

Nice To Haves

• Experience working remotely with a decentralized team
• Experience in medical diagnostics and/or global health
• Experience working in or supporting Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Responsibilities

• Manage the supply-side strategy including deploying expertise in a range of relevant areas (product development and commercialization, financial and market analyses, and new product introduction) to ensure a robust, up-to-date, and strategically useful market perspective on priority products
• Design and implement market shaping strategies to increase access to key diagnostics; this includes leveraging CHAI’s country-level footprint to generate market insights and ensure linkage between global market shaping and country demand as well as leveraging global mechanisms for country access
• Work with GMT leadership, other CHAI teams and external stakeholders to develop work plans that support marketing shaping goals and achieve grant deliverables
• Manage the delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder projects ensuring high quality, on time delivery of objectives and deliverables, including managing outputs from subcontracted partner organizations
• Cultivate strong relationships with senior executives of diagnostics companies, and governmental, multilateral, and non-governmental organizations
• Lead negotiations with diagnostic companies on pricing and supply terms and support suppliers to develop commercial strategies that sustain their business and enable product access across LMICs
• Proactively monitor the ecosystem to identify risks and opportunities to shape market dynamics for priority products, surfacing risks and adapting program strategy as needed
• Represent CHAI effectively to major donors and external partners and proactively engage in relationship building to advance impact goals
• Engage scientific experts to provide technical support to suppliers as needed on topics ranging from product development, production planning, regulatory approval processes, quality issues, demand forecasting, etc.
• Build and maintain institutional capacity and facilitate opportunities for knowledge sharing and knowledge management
• Effectively manage oneself, direct, and/or indirect reports within a matrixed organization
• Other responsibilities as needed

Benefits

• CHAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to providing an environment of fairness, and mutual respect where all applicants have access to equal employment opportunities. CHAI values diversity and inclusion and recognizes that our mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people with diverse experience, backgrounds, and culture.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager