Specialist, New Product Introduction - GL D - Defined Duration until December 2028

The Global Fund aims to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria as epidemics. As part of our mandate to fight the three diseases, the Global Fund plays a leading role in global markets for medicines and technologies that prevent, diagnose, and treat HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Every year, more than half of the Global Fund’s investments is used to procure key health products, ensuring they are available to those who need them most.

As one of the biggest health product procurement entities in the public sector, investing nearly US$3 billion in health products and equipment procurement, the Global Fund is uniquely placed to drive equitable access to quality-assured health products, services and innovations through its Supply Operations department.

Supply Operations, collaborating across the Global Fund Secretariat, is responsible for the Global Fund’s market shaping activities and the overall management of health product sourcing, procurement, quality assurance and supply chains.

The Market Shaping, Partnership & Innovation team addresses the evolving and pressing needs of driving more equitable access to innovative and quality assured health products in a more responsive and cost-effective delivery model, which requires strategic market interventions and partnerships.

Shaping innovation and accelerated new product introduction at scale is one of the strategic interventions of the NextGen Market Shaping approach.

Under the supervision of the Manager, Market Shaping and Partnership, the Specialist, New Product Introduction, coordinates the execution of the implementation roadmap for the scaled introduction of selected innovative, new health products for the categories allocated to them (e.g. pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, vector control products), and ensures on time, on budget and quality delivery of the relevant (catalytic) investments appropriated for the agreed interventions. Two specialist roles will be recruited - one focused on Pharmaceuticals and Injectables, and the other focused on Health Technologies and Diagnostics. Each role requires demonstrated expertise in respective product category.

They play a critical role in collaborating across Supply Operations and key partners in supporting the teams with the Global Fund health product introduction framework, policy guidelines, project implementation, tracking and reporting on the progress against the accelerated health product introduction plans, including timely escalation, trouble shooting, and problem-solving process.

They are responsible for coordinated stakeholder and partnership engagement on accelerated innovation introduction at scale, and for ensuring an integrated and synergetic approach across NextGen Market Shaping interventions.

Key Responsibilities

Innovation and health product introduction at scale

• Contribute to the development of the Health Product Introduction (HPI) Framework as part of the Global Fund’s 2023-2028 strategy implementation, including stakeholder management and partnership engagement approach, as well as periodic updates to the Secretariate management committees such as required.
• Coordinate the implementation of HPI framework and implementation roadmaps across the Secretariat (esp. TAP and GMD) and partners with a focus on their allocated product category. This includes identification of potential bottleneck, timely escalation and proposed actions to be taken by relevant team(s) to stay at course and well aligned to the goals and objectives set out in the Global Fund Strategy.
• Track and provide timely/quality reporting framework on the progress of the relevant Procurement, Supply Chain and Market Shaping (PSM) strategic KPIs and institutional Performance & Accountability Framework.
• Coordinate Unitaid and Global Fund partnership approach, including partnership mapping of all key health product interventions with clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
• Plan, prepare and conduct virtual and in-person partnership workshops for health product introduction workstreams as required for partner organizations, country stakeholders and others as required.
• Contribute to ensure proactive communication within Supply Operations and across Secretariat and beyond, including the development of publication materials. 
• Responsible for developing a clear implementation plan for agreed health product introduction for products across HIV, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, and for ensuring effective and efficient Catalytic Investment/Strategic Initiatives project implementation, including the progress report.

Partnership Engagement

• Develop and maintain holistic partnership maps for each of the health product introduction interventions with defined roles and responsibilities and key deliverables.
• Contribute to the “equitable access to innovation accelerator taskforce”, in co-convenorship with Unitaid and support their team members in coordination activities, including coordinating partnership meetings and providing input to the regular update on the NextGen Market Shaping approach to the Global Fund’s governance bodies.
• Contribute to planning and conducting formal partnership forums and ensure appropriate level of engagement is secured, including efficient management of information flow.
• For their interventions, responsible for coordinating across disease partners and ensuring the work on health product introduction is well aligned and supported across the partnership ecosystem.

Team effectiveness and capacity building

• Actively contribute to shifting the way of working internally in advancing on the Global Fund’s approach on equitable access to innovation and health product introduction at scale.
• Ensure information management and knowledge sharing across the Global Fund and partners.
• Share & reapply best practices with other team members on an ongoing basis
• Engage, motivate and influence other stakeholders inside and outside the SO Department to maximize the outcome and performance of the health product introduction catalytic and other investments.  

Subject to change by the Executive Director at any time at their sole discretion.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Advanced university degree in a relevant field (Master’s level or equivalent) or specific professional qualification; possible to have first degree and relevant post first-degree work experience.

Desirable:

• Business administration or financial qualification

Experience

Essential:

• Proven experience in prior innovation- and/or strategy-focused roles within global organizations, including organizational planning and implementation of strategy
• Experience working with market shaping, health product introduction in Global Public Health organizations
• Demonstrated experience in successfully delivering on strategic priorities and large scale interventions
• Proven experience working with teams across a diverse portfolio of programs
• Experience in innovation practice in health products and services, and experience operationalizing processes to support the translation of policies, programs, or services
• Experience and technical specialist knowledge of the category that the role will cover (Pharmaceuticals and Injectables or Health Technologies and Diagnostics).

Desirable:

• Minimum 6 years in positions in public and private health sector, with extensive experience in the health sector and/or not-for-profit sector

Competencies

Languages:

An excellent knowledge of English and preferably a good working knowledge of French. Knowledge of other languages would be an asset.

Functional Competencies:

• Operational Policy: Level 2
• Communications: Level 3
• Project Management: Level 2
• Procurement and Supply Chain: Level 2
• Global Public Health: Level 2
• Disease knowledge: Level 2

Other competencies

• Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal skills, negotiation, consultation, influencing and stakeholder management skills
• High degree of personal initiative and resiliency in face of challenging stakeholder and difficult situations
• Ability influence, build relationships and manage large stakeholder groups to ensure outcomes
• Manage competing issues to deliver high quality outcomes within required deadlines
• Understanding of political strategies and how to navigate those political spaces in order to represent Global Fund effectively
• Technical understanding of the category area (Pharmaceuticals and Injectables or Health Technologies and Diagnostics)
• Working knowledge & understanding of project management principles and application in multicultural settings including international public and private organization
• Track-record in strategic thinking and creative problem-solving
• Analytic mindset and highly experienced in structuring complex problems
• Strong capabilities in fostering collaboration within and across Departments

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Job Posting End Date

08 March 2026

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