Senior Program Officer, Market Dynamics

Gates Foundation•Seattle, WA

About The Position

The Foundation is the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. The Global Development Division (GD) includes a diverse range of program areas focused on finding creative ways to ensure solutions and products get into the hands of people in low-income countries. We focus on areas with the potential for high-impact, sustainable solutions that can reach millions of people. Our strategies include Emergency Response, Immunization, and Polio Eradication. A common theme across these programs is focus on innovative delivery, including an emphasis on strengthening primary health care systems. Our teams work in close partnership with these Country Office Teams to align the foundation’s health and development equity agenda with the government’s broader priorities. Vaccines are a core priority of the Gates Foundation and can save millions of lives a year when delivered effectively. The mission of our Immunization Program Strategy Team (PST) is to urgently reach children, adolescents, and adults -- no matter where they live -- with the vaccines they need. Our goal is a world free of vaccine-preventable diseases, and we do this by working with countries, development partners, and civil society organizations, to make sure that vaccines and immunization are effectively prioritized and delivered. Robust and resilient immunization programs are critical to achieving the promise of vaccination and are a cornerstone of primary health care, and we work to ensure that there are sufficient, affordable supplies to meet demand. We seek to bring new perspectives to challenging problems as we focus on results that can be delivered at scale. All our work on vaccines and immunization contributes to ia2030, which is a vision and commitment by the global community to extend the full benefits of immunization to all by 2030. The SPO, Market Dynamics will be a central resource and specialist in the Access team around market-shaping activities for vaccines and related supplies. In this role, you will provide technical support around market access initiatives to internal Program Strategy Teams (PSTs), time-limited deal teams and external partners working on related issues. You will contribute to or lead work to maximize affordability of a portfolio of vaccines while balancing with supply security ultimately to ensure sustainable access to high-quality, high-impact products.

Requirements

10+ years’ experience with health care product categories relevant to foundation global health goals.
Minimum of five years in market research and analysis, healthcare management consulting, or other relevant private and public sector experience.
Strong preference for vaccine knowledge and emerging markets/developing world experience.
Minimum of MBA or master’s degree in Public Policy, Health Economics, Public Health, Industrial Economics or equivalent advanced degree
Recognized as a market dynamics specialist.
Technically credible with industry partners, internal technical product development peers, and investment professionals.
Experience as a resource to teams on market dynamics, including conducting market research and analysis, scenario planning, pipeline planning, strategic product roadmaps, cost analysis, and innovative financing approaches.
Proven ability to multi-task and thrive in fast-paced, high-pressure situations.
Capability to work independently.
Creative approach: able to see opportunities where challenges exist.
Proven ability to lead and influence others in a constructive manner and to build and sustain collaborative relationships across many different types of partners and in highly matrixed environments.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to effectively synthesize information to build consensus.
Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located.
The Foundation does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. This includes direct company sponsorship and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g. H-1B, O-1, L-1, E, OPT, STEM-OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.).

Responsibilities

Primary accountability for the execution and/or support of market-shaping plans and product roadmaps with partners, both internal and external for a defined portfolio of vaccines.
Provide excellent ongoing support to team members, investment teams and PSTs for their vaccine and global health market dynamics needs.
Co-lead work to move the practice of applied market dynamics forwards, including working with partners on the quality of market data, methods and resources and innovation in procurement approaches.
Advance the market dynamics field by building tools and public goods that make the practice of market dynamics more effective.
Engage with global buying institutions and national procurers to improve their procurement practices, align their approaches with product strategies/roadmaps, and maintain close information sharing dynamics.
Build relationships with big global partnerships (e.g., Gavi, Global Fund) to support and influence their market-shaping approaches and strategies.
Provide leadership and/or support transactions that enable affordable supply of priority vaccines.
Maintain excellent knowledge of vaccine industry trends in terms of manufacturing approaches, technologies, and overall industry dynamics.
Help shape the foundation’s overall strategic initiatives with the vaccine industry.
Represent the foundation to key program-related external constituencies, as appropriate, on committees related to area of expertise and responsibilities of the position.