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