Deputy Director,Supply Chain Business Development and Program Delivery Job London area,Greater London England UK,Supply Chain/Logistics

Location: Greater London

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities.

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Job Overview The Deputy Director, Supply Chain Business Development and Program Delivery is a senior global role responsible for making IRC's supply chains fit for scale across its most ambitious health and humanitarian programming commitments. The role is designed to translate strategic program targets into operational supply chain solutions that work at country level and ensuring country realities shape global supply chain strategy in return.

The role has three integrated areas of responsibility. It serves as a primary GSC lead and contributor to business development: identifying, designing, and positioning supply chain funding opportunities with institutional and non-traditional donors, and leading supply chain sections of competitive proposals. It provides support across IRC's Impact at Scale (I@S) thematic supply chains, driving end-to-end performance from demand planning and forecasting through sourcing, pre-positioning, and last-mile delivery.

It builds country and regional capacity to sustain health supply chain improvements over time, providing direct technical support, deploying to high-priority contexts, and harmonizing tools and SOPs across country programs in collaboration with Regional Supply Chain Directors (RSCDs) and other relevant Global Supply Chain (GSC) units and IRC stakeholder departments. Reporting to the Director of Emergency and Health Supply Chain, the Deputy Director works in close collaboration with the Health Technical Unit, Global Procurement, Regional Supply Chain Directors, Country Programs, IT, Finance, and external partners including UNICEF, WHO, ECHO, and peer INGOs.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership for Program Delivery The Deputy Director plays an active role in GSC’s business development (BD) function. Supply chain is an increasingly fundable programming area, with institutional donors such as ECHO, SIDA, Gates and non-traditional donors explicitly framing requirements around operational efficiency, commodity management, and supply chain innovation. Additionally, private and corporate donors have expressed specific interest in funding the optimization of health and emergency supply chains.

Act as the primary GSC focal point within I@S agile working groups and cross-functional scaling teams, ensuring supply chain planning is embedded in program design from the outset and not treated as a downstream implementation task. Implement the strategic direction for cross-cutting supply chain enablers including pooled procurement, global pre-positioning frameworks, harmonized delivery models, and digital systems and oversee their development and rollout across priority country programs.

Provide supply chain leadership and oversight for the addition of any new I@S Ready to Scale thematic areas, ensuring new commodities and delivery models are integrated into IRC's global supply chain architecture without creating fragmentation or duplication. Serve as GSC’s coordinating focal point with the Research and Innovation Department, contributing to supply chain innovations including AI-enabled solutions.

Business Development & Resource Mobilization Is responsible for operationalizing the BD strategy, assembling inputs to create compelling bids, gap filling in the BD process as needed/relevant, and driving ultimate bid success through correct donor intel and positioning, strong bid submission, and effective cross-functional collaboration. Flag, track and route relevant funding opportunities to GSC Leadership and work closely with internal stakeholders to plan for staff needs and business development capacity requirements to successfully write and budget for winning bids based on the pipeline Lead or co-lead the technical design of supply chain sections for proposals where GSC has a primary role, including narrative writing, logical framework development, and supply chain costing.

Collaborating with program and business development leads to embedding supply chain considerations into program design, with specific attention paid to Impact at Scale initiatives Contribute to bid assessment, probability-of-winning analysis, and positioning strategy for supply chain funding opportunities with specific focus on I@S thematic areas…