About Us:

MSI Reproductive Choices, a global organization that provides sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including contraception, safe abortion, and post-abortion care. The organization has over 9,000 staff members in 37 countries, and is committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, and high-quality services for all. MSI teams are locally led and results-driven, focusing on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last. The organization believes that access to reproductive choice is life changing, and that it allows individuals to determine their own futures and create a fairer, more equal world.

About The Role:

The Regulatory and Compliance Assistant works as part of the Global Supply Chain function, assuring the availability of quality products at the correct price in an efficient and effective way. This position will collaborate with national programs to find relevant product innovations and tactics for Social Marketing, as well as to ensure that other eligible complementary items for the Social Marketing product portfolio are found, qualified, and registered. While the reporting line is directly to the Regulatory and Compliance Manager, there is expected to be a significant amount of work associated with our Social Marketing department where time management will be a critical aspect of the role and the correct GDP management of medicinal products and healthcare products requires carefully sourced staff. Individual duties must be clearly known and met with a continuing commitment to GDP ideals.

About You:

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission and a focus on delivering measurable results. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality, and safeguarding the welfare of team members and clients alike.

To perform this role, it is essential that you have the following experience

  •  2+ years operational experience within Supply Chain environments (From a range of therapeutical areas – reproductive health is highly desirable)
  • Good understanding of procurement processes in an international environment (preferably with experience in both Africa and Asia)

Desirable

  • Commercial or Not for Profit Supply Chain experience.
  • Experience within the Public and/or Private Health Sector
  • Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing sector.
  • Experience within the regulatory environments of import/export business.

To excel in this role, you need the following skills:

  • Ability to work inclusively and overcome bias and prejudice.
  • Customer-focused, independent, and culturally adaptable.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Strong team-building and strategic relationship-building skills.
  • Effective planning and leading complex product registration strategies.
  • Problem-solving skills and finding optimum solutions in low resource settings.
  • Business and financial acumen to understand the impact of supply chain decisions.

Education/Qualifications required for this role are:

  • Pharmaceutical degree (highly desirable).
  • Regulatory training and trained in Good Distribution/Manufacturing Practice (highly desirable).
  • A degree in a health or medical field, or equivalent experience (desirable).
  • Trained or experienced in project management (desirable).
  • Proficiency in English (essential) and French (highly desirable).

Personal Attributes:

MSI seeks exceptional individuals with a strong communicator, self-motivated and solutions-seeking mindset, committed to driving social change, able to work effectively with diverse teams, and comfortable with ambiguity.

For this role, we’re looking for an individual who is/has:

  • A resilient, flexible and overly positive person with a willingness to adapt plans and seek feedback from stakeholders.
  • Candidate should be willing to travel up to 20% of the time to geographically challenging locations.
  • Work efficiently and comfortably in a diverse multinational environment.
  • Work with minimal supervision to achieve the objectives of the workplan.

We would like to welcome interested individuals to apply via the link provided below:

https://careers.msichoices.org/vacancyinformation.aspx?vguid=e3a88966-946f-46c0-b4da-5e71e428271f

Closing date: 13th March 2023 (midnight GMT).

NB: Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.