About Us
MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.
Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centered care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.
We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.
About the Role
The Global Supply Chain team works across all of our Country Programmes to impart best practice on all international procurement and supply chain operations but further to that, to build capacity throughout our network.
The Procurement Officer is part of the Global Supply Chain function. This function is a strategic activity within MSI, aimed at ensuring availability of quality products at the right cost in an efficient and effective manner.
The Global Supply Chain department is led by the Global Supply Chain Director and consists of a Procurement Team and Supply Chain Team.
The Procurement Officer is responsible to the Procurement Specialist for the routine purchasing and logistics operations, ensuring that it works with and delivers efficient and effective procurement logistics support to over 30 MSI country programmes. This includes handling purchaser requisitions, conducting competitive procurement, raising purchase orders, liaising with the warehouse and freight forwarders and maintaining records.
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 skills:
- Great autonomy and intuitively around new IT systems & advanced in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, etc
- Ability to work in a diverse and inclusive environment: respecting and collaborating with all individuals equally, and with a commitment to overcome bias and prejudice
- Good Communication: communicates clearly, verbally and in writing across the organisation & across all levels of the business. Can adapt communication to increase impact in different contexts
- Good Team working ability to quickly and effectively build relationships and establish high degree of trust & respect and highly sensitive cross-cultural skills recognising the wide variation in supply chain skills in emerging countries. Empowers team to take action
- High planning & organising skills: High level of ability to initiate and lead supply chain tools development to completion and sensitive to change management requirements to ensure successful embedding of new systems within low resource countries. Good at follow-through on projects and initiatives.
- Strong analytical skills: can easily translate supply chain KPIs into something an organisation understands and responds to. Strong attention to detail
- Good problem resolution skills: recognises the challenges of low resource settings and can respond well with solutions that meet needs of global standards whilst meeting needs of country programmes. Good at testing alternatives to identify an optimum solution. Isn’t afraid to ask for support when needed
To perform this role, it is essential that you have the following experience:
- Sound supply chain management experience including strategic procurement and forecasting (essential)
- 3+ years operational experience in supply chain (e.g., including procurement, inventory management, fulfilment), in a regulated industry, preferably healthcare
- Commercial or Not for Profit Supply Chain experience. Manufacturing or Engineering, pharmaceutical background advantageous
Personal Attributes:
We seek exceptional individuals who are aligned to MSI’s mission and entrepreneurial mindset. You must be a strong communicator, self-motivated and solutions-seeking, committed to driving social change in an environment that measures sustainable results and impact at an individual and global level. You must be able to work effectively with and across diverse teams and be comfortable with ambiguity.
For this role, we’re looking for an individual who is:
- Pro choice
- Ability to understand and compare data (e.g., quotes, pricing)
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy skills
- Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills
- A team player with flexible working attitude, and proven ability to work under pressure
- Actively seeking feedback on performance (both results and behaviours) from various stakeholders in the organisation with a view to continuously learning and growing
- Able to work efficiently and comfortably in a diverse multinational environment
- Able to work with minimal supervision to achieve the objectives of the workplan
- Ability to speak/read French and/or Spanish (desirable)
- Experience of using finance or procurement software systems, such as SUN financials (desirable)
- Experience of running competitive bidding process such as RFQ, tender (desirable)
For more information about the role, please view the job description and person specification on our website.
Location: London Support Office (hybrid working) or where any MSI country programme operates.
Full-time: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday (UK contracted hours)
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: £29,200 – £36,500 per annum for UK based candidates. Discretionary bonus + benefits. For all other locations, the role will be banded within national context.
Closing date: 31st January 2024 (midnight GMT). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.
For internal employees applying from an MSI country programme, the role will be positioned within the existing salary structure of the country. Local terms and conditions of the country will apply.
