The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

The Gender Equality Division’s mission it to ensure women and girls in Africa and South Asia can enjoy good health, make their own choices, earn their own money, and be leaders in their societies. When women and girls have an equal chance to thrive and lead, everyone benefits. We seek to address these compounding barriers through deep partnership with our grantees. As a philanthropy, our role is to listen to and learn from these experts. We take risks in new areas, prove concepts, and bring these ideas to governments, partner organizations, and private sector companies to scale. The Gender Equality (GE) Division builds off our existing strengths as a foundation in areas like global health and data, partnering closely with all our global divisions.

The Women’s Health Innovations (WHI) team under the GE Division is a new team focused on developing and accelerating the introduction and scale of interventions that disproportionately impact health and economic outcomes for women and girls. A priority area for WHI is contraceptive technology and family planning methods. While innovative products are in development, we are also focused on ensuring that we are optimizing our delivery of in-market commodities. A key challenge that continues to face the family planning market is the tracking of inventory throughout the value chain across both public and private sectors. Without visibility into the detailed inventory movement, we will continue to struggle in understanding how to optimize supply chain operations for priority family planning methods in-country.

Your Role

As the Senior Program Officer for Supply Chain, you will report to the Deputy Director of Product Introduction and Market Access for WHI and will be expected to work in a hybrid work arrangement from our Seattle, WA office.  You will work with partners to lead investments and support work focused on optimizing supply chain governance and operations at global levels for key SRH procurers in addition to improving the FP commodities inventory tracking for priority products and geographies.

This is a limited-term position for 12 months. Relocation will not be provided. 

 

What You’ll Do  

• For the next 9-12 months, you will work with key stakeholders, both internal and external, to secure execution milestones and objectives of select priority grants, prioritizing the following:
  • UNFPA-SP commodity procurement grants across UNFPA Supplies Partnership and their two regional offices.
  • UNFPA Supply Chain Management Unit (SCMU) Operations Improvement grant, including completion of the Control Tower with full automation capabilities and AI analytics overlay with Causal Foundry
  • RHSC core and FP VAN expansion grants
• For these key investments, you will be the Investment Owner and also be responsible for reviewing progress reports and other investment documentation to make recommendations on payments
• Finally, you will be managing the budget of the Procurement and Supply Chain BoW – as BoW lead, you will be responsible for working with relevant business team members to track progress and manage payments.   

Your responsibilities include:

At global levels: 

• Engage with grantees and partners regularly to monitor progress of grants, troubleshoot/problem-solve collaboratively to secure execution and delivery, and secure robust data integrity.   
• Serve as the key global procurement and supply chain lead for WHI/FP for both internal and external stakeholders

 For priority geographies:

• Work with key foundation regional and country offices to ensure seamless communication and supply chain operations from global to country medical stores to sub-national delivery needs.
• Identify and work with partners to track inventory movement of DMPA-SC and other priority methods from receipt of product in-country to delivery at final service delivery point or point-of-sale.
• Consolidate and analyze data from inventory tracking across countries to develop key hypotheses for optimizing supply chain bottlenecks for priority methods, including helping to identify potential market failures that could be leading to supply chain bottlenecks/failures

Your Experience

• Degree in engineering, operations management, or a scientific field. Master’s in engineering, operations, or an MBA, is a plus.
• 7+ years of experience in supply chain managementExpertise in GMP compliance; key regulatory body compliance (e.g., FDA, EMA) experience would be beneficial
• Experience working in pharmaceutical, consumer health, or FMCG industry 
• Demonstrated strong analytical skills
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and to develop and maintain strong business partner relationships
• Innovative, proactive, and resourceful; committed to quality and continuous improvement
• Ability to anticipate and mitigate challenges
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Hands-on team player willing to work in an environment where individual initiative, accountability, and professional maturity are required
• Able to synthesize information into a presentation appropriate to the organizational-level of the audience
• Strong PC experience, Microsoft Office Suite experience required including; Excel; Outlook; PowerPointOracle EBS/Advance Supply Chain Planning or SAP experience a plus
• Ability to travel up to 15% domestic and international 

Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located.The Foundation does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. This includes direct company sponsorship and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g. H-1B, O-1, L-1, E, OPT, STEM-OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.).

The salary range for this role is $238,400 to $369,400 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located.  The range for this role in these locations is $262,200 to $406,400 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

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Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Candidate Accommodations

We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates. If you have a disability or medical condition and need an accommodation at any stage of the application or interview process—such as an ASL interpreter, alternative interview format, or physical accessibility support—we’re happy to help. Please contact HR@gatesfoundation.org with the position number and a brief description of your accommodation needs. Requests will be handled confidentially.

Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.