What are the responsibilities and job description for the Consultant: Procurement and Supply Chain Management (PSM) Expert position at Palladium?
Consultant: Procurement and Supply Chain Management (PSM) Expert
Project Overview and Role:
Global Fund in partnership with Palladium International rolled out the Supply Chain and Health Services Spot Checks across 20 countries with the aim to provide: improved visibility of supply chain performance, commodity and service availability, and service disruptions and strengthened assurance through expanded number of on-site spot checks. The countries are located around the world, including Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Palladium is seeking an experienced Procurement and Supply Chain Management (PSM) expert to manage the data analysis aspect of the project, as well as create and review country reports that synthesize key findings.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Coordinate technical requirements of the data collection with country teams to ensure spot check/data collection aligns with the questionnaire and supplementary guidelines
- Develop data quality assurance that will be implemented to ensure the quality of the data
- Review, clean, analyze data, provide root-cause analysis for low performance against targets and prepare reports on KPIs
- Analyze KPI performances and ensure consistency with the country SC landscape and other conducted assessments
- Review final raw health facility and Central Medical Store data set prior to submission to Global Fund and ensure the dataset meets client qualitative and quantitative requirements.
- Prepare final report of the root-cause analysis and coordinate dissemination workshops with countries
- Present final report including the corrective actions/recommendations to in country stakeholders
- Assist project team with any PSM related matters
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 7 years of experience working on supply chain projects in the international development sector with clients such as the Global Fund.
- Experience/expertise in assessing policies, systems and structures in the public or private health sector
- Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience)
- Demonstrated experience conducting rigorous data analysis and creating client-facing reports
- Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Excel.
Company Overview:
About Palladium - Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact - the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world's most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people's lives.
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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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, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.
