Program Manager, Global Markets

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. is a global health organization that works with governments and the private sector to strengthen health systems and expand access to essential medicines and health products. The Program Manager will lead diagnostic market-shaping activities, develop supply- and demand-side product strategies, manage relationships and negotiations with diagnostic companies, and coordinate complex projects across global and country stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the supply-side strategy including deploying expertise in a range of relevant areas (product development and commercialization, financial and market analyses, and new product introduction) to ensure a robust, up-to-date, and strategically useful market perspective on priority products
• Design and implement market shaping strategies to increase access to key diagnostics; this includes leveraging CHAI’s country-level footprint to generate market insights and ensure linkage between global market shaping and country demand as well as leveraging global mechanisms for country access
• Work with GMT leadership, other CHAI teams and external stakeholders to develop work plans that support marketing shaping goals and achieve grant deliverables
• Manage the delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder projects ensuring high quality, on time delivery of objectives and deliverables, including managing outputs from subcontracted partner organizations
• Cultivate strong relationships with senior executives of diagnostics companies, and governmental, multilateral, and non-governmental organizations
• Lead negotiations with diagnostic companies on pricing and supply terms and support suppliers to develop commercial strategies that sustain their business and enable product access across LMICs
• Proactively monitor the ecosystem to identify risks and opportunities to shape market dynamics for priority products, surfacing risks and adapting program strategy as needed
• Represent CHAI effectively to major donors and external partners and proactively engage in relationship building to advance impact goals
• Engage scientific experts to provide technical support to suppliers as needed on topics ranging from product development, production planning, regulatory approval processes, quality issues, demand forecasting, etc
• Build and maintain institutional capacity and facilitate opportunities for knowledge sharing and knowledge management
• Effectively manage oneself, direct, and/or indirect reports within a matrixed organization
• Other responsibilities as needed

Requirements:

• Preference to be based in a CHAI program country, subject to leadership approval and ability to obtain work authorization
• It will require up to 25% travel
• Bachelor's degree plus 8 or more years of work experience
• Experience working in the private sector, ideally in strategy consulting, and/or investment banking or similar fast-paced, results-oriented environments such as in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostic or medical device industries
• Exceptional analytical (qualitative and quantitative) and communication (written and verbal) skills; detail oriented
• Creative thinker, enabling development of transformational solutions to complex global health problems
• Entrepreneurial mindset, including ability to work independently, self-motivate, propose and implement new ideas, and bring others along
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and set priorities
• Ability to absorb and synthesize a broad range of information, including financial, regulatory, diagnostic, and scientific information
• Strong desire to work in a fast-paced, multicultural environment; demonstrated ability to build strong relationships quickly, externally and internally
• Excellent manager with proven track record of delivering on complex, multistakeholder projects
• Willingness to travel
• Experience working remotely with a decentralized team
• Experience in medical diagnostics and/or global health
• Experience working in or supporting Low- and Middle-Income Countries