Management Advisor - Medicines and Supply Chain

Background

• The Gombe State Delivery and Insights Unit (SDIU) aims to strengthen the state's existing health-system architecture by creating a consistent mechanism that connects data, management decisions, coordinated implementation, follow-up and escalation.
• The SDIU works to strengthen existing statutory functions and connect them into one repeatable evidence-to-decision-to-action cycle. it will connect leadership structures, technical forums, delivery agencies and data systems into one government-led decision-to-action mechanism.
• The SDIU is not intended to operate as a parallel programme management unit, replace existing government institutions, duplicate technical committees, or assume responsibility for programme implementation.

Role Purpose

• To ensure that supply-chain performance issues identified through GODMA/GoPharma, LMIS and service-delivery data are converted into coordinated management action and considered as part of wider facility-performance discussions.
• The Advisor's role is to strengthen management follow-through around supply-chain constraints.

Key Responsibilities

Monitor priority supply-chain issues:

• Track availability, stock-outs, expiry/unusable stock, inventory turnover, procurement adherence and DRF-related performance.
• Use existing GODMA/GoPharma and LMIS outputs as the starting point rather than creating duplicate reporting.

Link commodities to service delivery:

• Work with DIU analysts to connect commodity availability with service volumes and facility performance.
• Distinguish supply problems caused by procurement, warehousing, ordering, distribution, financing, facility consumption practices or poor data quality.

Coordinate resolution and escalation:

• Support GODMA/GoPharma in resolving cross-institutional issues that exceed normal operational authority.

• Track TMT actions affecting procurement, distribution, financing or facility compliance.

• Ensure emerging integration with the state data environment is used rather than replicated through separate SDIU reporting.

• Key Deliverables

• Monthly commodity exception and bottleneck brief.

• Supply-chain action tracker.

• Root-cause summaries for repeated commodity failures.

• Quarterly assessment of whether corrective actions improved commodity availability.

• Suggested performance indicators

• Reduction in repeated high-priority commodity bottlenecks.

• Share of supply-chain issues resolved within agreed timelines.

• Increased linkage between commodity and service-performance analysis.

• Recommended Profile / Capabilities

• Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy, experience with Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Public Health, Health Administration, or a related discipline.

• Professional qualification in pharmacy or a related field is an advantage.

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience in health commodities, pharmaceutical supply chains, logistics, programme management and health-system strengthening

• Familiarity with LMIS, DRF and public-sector commodity systems.

• Strong ability to distinguish technical supply problems from coordination and financing constraints.

• Demonstrate experience managing or supporting public-sector medicines and health-commodity supply chains.

• Strong understanding of forecasting, quantification, procurement, warehousing, distribution, inventory management, and LMIS processes.

• Demonstrate experience working with government health institutions and multidisciplinary teams.

• Experience in supply-chain performance management and bottleneck resolution.

• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management capabilities.

Application Closing Date

Not Specified.