The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries, while strengthening the capabilities of governments and the private sector in those countries to create and sustain high quality health systems that can succeed without our assistance. For more information, please visit: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org
Team Overview:
CHAI's Global Markets Team (GMT) is responsible for envisioning, executing, and monitoring market shaping interventions aimed at improving the efficiency of health commodity markets for lower income countries. These interventions range from traditional policy-led and grant-financed initiatives such as pooled procurement, coordinated ordering, strategic demand forecasting, and regulatory harmonization to more innovative credit enhancement mechanisms such as volume guarantees (VGs),advance market commitments (AMCs),and working capital facilities. GMT collaborates closely with internal and external stakeholders to evaluate the public health impact of a proposed intervention and ensure alignment with current and future policy goals.
Position Overview:
The Senior Analyst will support market-shaping activities, focusing primarily on Hepatitis C (HCV) drugs. Their primary responsibility will be to help develop, maintain, and implement CHAI's global supply side strategy for the key HCV drugs, support negotiations, and collaborate with a range of internal and external stakeholders to design and implement interventions to ensure sufficient supply of affordable and high-quality prevention and treatment commodities to low and middle-income markets.
We are seeking a highly motivated, entrepreneurial individual with outstanding problem-solving ability and communication skills. The Senior Analyst must be able to function independently, and have a strong commitment to excellence. CHAI places great value on relevant personal qualities: resourcefulness, humility, responsibility, tenacity, independence, energy, and work ethic.
Responsibilities- Support the Global Market Team (GMT) in evaluating the potential for various market shaping interventions for key HCV drugs
- Develop a detailed understanding and documentation of supplier dynamics for key HCV drugs including market share of suppliers, pricing offered for key HCV drugs by suppliers, timelines for product development and manufacturing, timelines for obtaining quality assurance for key HCV drugs, status of in-country registration of drugs, in-country dossier filing timelines, and suppliers’ development and access strategies
- Disseminate information on market trends to global team and country teams. Support global team and country teams in identifying pricing levers and utilizing market analysis to lead advocacy efforts in-country, planning procurement, and understanding in-country pricing benchmarks
- Liaise with the R&D team, the disease team and country teams to develop the market analysis required to support negotiations with suppliers to expedite time-to-market, reduce pricing and improve supply security for key HCV drugs
- Cultivate relationships with existing and potential suppliers of key quality assured HCV drugs in low-and middle-income marketsBuild and maintain these relationships by providing
market insights and contacts, offering targeted support and guidance to navigate regulatory and procurement processes - Participate in disease team discussions/ meetings and help develop and implement the supply-side priorities of the disease teams and / or country teams
- Support the disease teams in addressing any supplier-related requirements and queries from the country teams
- Provide inputs and support the disease teams in value for money analysis and periodic reporting on grant milestones
- Monitor supplier compliance with contracts, global and domestic funding for product purchase, and product uptake; present findings of analyses to a broad range of internal and external audiences including donors
- Prepare presentations, reports, and other analyses to inform global policy and increase the evidence base for high-impact interventionsPresent findings of analyses to internal and or external audiences in meetings and conferences
- Any other activities as required by the Manager and Director, Global Markets
Qualifications- Bachelor’s degree, plus 3-4 years relevant work experience in investment banking, consulting, or other industries requiring a high level of quantitative and analytical skills
- Exceptional analytical (qualitative and quantitative),problem solving, and communication (written and verbal) skills
- Ability to collaborate remotely with team members spread across geographies
- Prior experience working with large data sets and excel-based analytical modeling
- Ability to independently operate in an unstructured but demanding multicultural environment
- Ability to multi-task, set priorities, and rapidly absorb/synthesize a broad range of information
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills
- Familiarity with global health issues
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word
- Willingness to travel frequently and at short notice
Advantages:
- Candidates with experience in management consulting and/or investment banking
- Experience working and communicating with government officials and multilateral organizations
- Experience working in the pharmaceutical industry