About Palladium
Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.
This Opportunity
The Supply Chain Director will be a member of the Ethiopia SCHIP leadership team and manage project objectives related to Objective 1: Maturity of Supply Chain Functions and Operations Improved. The Supply Chain Director will report to the Deputy Chief of Party and lead the Objective 1 team to implement activities and ensure that the project remains on schedule with the approved workplan and meets Objective 1 milestones and deliverables. They will liaise with key stakeholders, including the Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Supply Service (EPSS), other donor-funded projects, and implementing partners. The Supply Chain Director will develop and compile quarterly and annual reports on Objective 1 activities. This role requires previous experience in health supply chains, focused on improving supply chain maturity and governance.
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead technical activities related to improving the maturity of Ethiopia’s health supply chain functions and operations such as quantification, procurement, warehouse management, route optimization, inventory management and others.
• Support the development of a locally informed project strategic plan that reflects global priorities.
• Lead efforts to improve the technical and managerial capacity of the supply chain workforce.
• Design and lead the implementation of quality workplans while ensuring effective use of data, project performance, and risk management.
• Support the creation of a cascaded technical oversight system of the public health pharmaceutical and supply chain sector to all levels.
• Provide technical assistance to improve leadership and governance for health supply chains at all levels.
• Support stakeholders to design standardized supply chain coordination platforms.
• Interface with clients and project stakeholders, to plan, implement, review, and report on projects and deliverables or products as needed.
• Ensure staff compliance with project guidelines and SOPs;

Key Competencies Required

• Master’s degree in global public health, business, supply chain management, public administration, healthcare administration, or a related field.
• Experience in international development working with donors (including USAID) is required.
• Experience in a project senior leadership position that required the assembling, managing, and supervising complex teams.
• Experience with global health or health supply chain programs with significant experience in one of the following areas: supply chain management, procurement, warehousing, or logistics
• Demonstrated knowledge of supply chain, 4PL, and 3PL logistics, including experience with LMIS, WMIS, TMIS, and control tower software.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders including government agencies, government and counterparts, and international donor agencies.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Experience in project monitoring and evaluation, data analysis, generation of project reports, logical models and outcomes.
• Ability to exercise leadership, build teams, maintain effective communication, motivate, and generate commitment within a team.Excellent written and spoken English and ability to communicate across technical disciplines and non-technical audience required.
• Master’s degree in global public health, business, supply chain management, public administration, healthcare administration, or a related field.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.
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