# Deputy Director, Supply Chain Business Development and Program Delivery

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The Deputy Director, Supply Chain Business Development and Program Delivery is a senior global role responsible for making IRC's supply chains fit for scale across its most ambitious health and humanitarian programming commitments.

The role has three integrated areas of responsibility:

- Serving as a primary GSC lead and contributor to business development

- Providing support across IRC's Impact at Scale (I@S) thematic supply chains

- Building country and regional capacity to sustain health supply chain improvements over time

**Key Responsibilities:**

**1. Leadership for Program Delivery**

- Play an active role in GSC's business development (BD) function

- Act as the primary GSC focal point within I@S agile working groups and cross-functional scaling teams

- Implement the strategic direction for cross-cutting supply chain enablers

- Provide supply chain leadership and oversight for the addition of any new I@S Ready to Scale thematic areas

- Serve as GSC's coordinating focal point with the Research and Innovation Department

**2. Business Development & Resource Mobilization**

- Operationalize the BD strategy

- Flag, track and route relevant funding opportunities to GSC Leadership

- Lead or co-lead the technical design of supply chain sections for proposals

- Collaborate with program and business development leads to embed supply chain considerations into program design

- Contribute to bid assessment, probability-of-winning analysis, and positioning strategy for supply chain funding opportunities

**3. Implementation of Strategic Initiatives Supporting Impact @ Scale**

- Strengthen global forecasting and demand planning systems for key health commodities

- Collaborate with Global Procurement to define sourcing strategies, monitor supplier performance, and ensure security of supply

- Lead global visibility efforts by consolidating country-level data on demand, pipeline status, consumption, and stock risks

- Work with country teams to improve quantification, storage, distribution planning, and last-mile delivery

**4. Capacity Building, Country Support & Operational Strengthening**

- Provide specialized technical support to country supply chain and health teams

- Strengthen country practices in forecasting, contingency planning, supplier management, and stock-out prevention

- Support countries facing pipeline risks or operational bottlenecks

- Promote best practices and harmonize tools, guidance, and SOPs across all countries, regions and departments

**5. Monitoring, KPIs, Reporting & Knowledge Management**

- Develop supply chain KPIs aligned to IRC's LMIS, BD and I@S objectives

- Produce timely reports on global health supply chain performance, risks, and mitigation actions

- Document lessons learned and drive continuous improvement

**Qualifications:**

- Master's degree in public health, pharmacy, supply chain management, strategy development, international development, international relations, or relevant field

- Experience in supply chain management in humanitarian settings, preferably with demonstrable experience in health supply chains

- Proven experience in departmental or organizational strategy development in operations / supply chain in humanitarian organizations

- Expertise in forecasting, strategic sourcing, procurement, quality assurance, and distribution of health commodities

## Skills

### Required
- supply chain management
- health supply chains
- forecasting
- strategic sourcing
- procurement
- quality assurance
- distribution of health commodities

### Nice to have
- business development
- proposal writing
- donor engagement
- partnership development

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