Senior Supply Chain Advisor

Summary of Responsibilities

The SSCA serve as subject matter expert for global health supply chain technical issues, in areas such as quantification, forecasting, procurement, storage and distribution and inventory management, logistics management information systems (LMIS), health systems strengthening, budgeting and financial management, driving and analyzing supply chain performance, and program effectiveness. The role is expected to translate technical expertise into practical tools, country support, and partnership strategies that reduce supply interruptions and improve visibility, availability, and responsible use of reproductive health commodities.

• Lead the Ipas supply chain management approach across the network by ensuring that evidence and best practice inform strategies and efforts to sustain the availability of abortion and contraception drugs across the different pathways to care.

• Provide technical leadership and support to strengthen sexual and reproductive health commodity supply chains at global, regional, and country levels across the pathways to care.
• Support countries to assess gaps in reproductive health commodity systems and implement corrective actions.
• Improve forecasting, quantification, procurement, warehousing, distribution, transportation, quality assurance, and logistics management information systems for abortion and contraception commodities.
• Design and optimize supply chain strategies, tools, and frameworks for SRH commodities in partnership with country programs, governments, and partners to speed up product flow.
• Build national capacity through training, mentoring, curricula development, and knowledge transfer for supply chain staff and stakeholders.
• Strengthen partnerships with national, regional, and international experts, institutions, and partner organizations to advance RH supply chain systems.
• Promote evidence-based approaches, lessons learned, innovation, and increase data visibility and use for continuous improvement of supply chain performance and operations.
• Establish quality assurance, sustainability assessment, monitoring, evaluation frameworks, and KPIs to track supply chain performance globally.
• Mitigate supply chain disruptions through risk management, contingency planning, supplier diversification, and compliance with regulatory standards.
• Foster innovation in procurement, market shaping, inventory management, distribution, and technology-enabled global stock management, including in crisis-affected settings.
• Contribute to the regional advocacy efforts to integrate abortion commodities in essential medicine lists (EML), including supporting the registration and marketing authorization of abortion commodities.
• Capitalize on private sector supply chain capacity and knowledge for innovative packaging, distribution, and user experience documentation.
• Lead monitoring and evidence synthesis on the safety and quality of abortion commodities used locally in order to contribute to external collective efforts of pharmacovigilance.

• Contribute to project design, proposal development, and opportunity prospecting for supply chain strengthening initiatives.
• Participate in donor and partner calls to ensure supply chain needs, priorities, and progress are effectively represented across the Ipas network.
• Assist procurement and contracting team with product quality assurance assessments and vendor certification vetting.
• Coordinate and support financial review of global supply chain strengthening initiatives and projects.

• Lead efforts to highlight, advance, and advocate for abortion supply planning priorities by engaging supply chain coalitions and working groups, international NGOs, multilateral partners—UN agencies, the World Bank Group, WHO—and donors to collaborate on and inform global abortion supply planning.
• Contribute to evidence generation and knowledge sharing on reproductive health supply chains across countries, regional networks, technical forums, and international conferences.

• Deep commitment to sexual and…