VisionSpring is creating access to affordable eyewear, everywhere. Clear vision creates opportunities for increased learning, work, safety, civic participation, and quality of life. As a social enterprise, social change motivates us first. Our focus on sales and revenue targets serves and advances our mission objective-to increase functioning, productivity, and income earning potential for our low-income consumers by correcting refractive error and presbyopia with eyeglasses. We are working to transform the systemic dysfunction of an optical market that has failed to deliver eyeglasses a 700-year-old technology - to 2.7 billion consumers in need of vision correction, most of whom live on less than $4 a day.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Pharmacy Territory Project Lead
Location: Kano
Employment Type: Contract
Description
- Are you a change maker who wants to play a pivotal role in restoring vision for millions of people in low-income settings across Nigeria?
- VisionSpring, an international social enterprise, seeks a Pharmacy Territorial Lead - in its project execution in Nigeria.
- The Pharmacy Project Lead is delivering one of our newest model of service delivery, bringing clear vision into the community, closer to those who had limited access before. He/she serves as a key member of the team for handling projects and reports to the Africa Region Director.
What You'll Do
Project Management:
- Build a scalable and sustainable business model for selling reading eyeglasses in pharmacy stores in Kano.
- Drive execution and work closely with all cross-functional team members, partners, distributors and vendors to coordinate multiple workstreams and drive closure on action items.
- Present status to the leadership team including execution, budget adherence and risks, in a standard format at regular intervals.
- Travel to various locations – pharmacies, referral hospitals and outreach camps as needed to implement the project.
- Work closely with Supply Chain and Logistics teams to ensure product and other equipment are available on-site as required for project. Develop a plan for reusable assets.
- Working closely with the Program manager and Optometrists, develop a service operations plan including delivery of service and collection of data.
- Working with the Monitoring and Evaluation team, develop and maintain the Key Performance Indicators as required for the project.
- Propose innovations based on data and evidence gathered.
Operations:
- Develop and map assigned territory by selecting the right pharmacy clusters.
- Identify and onboard new retail pharmacies and ensure product lifting to pharmacies.
- Product requisition collection from the distributor and ensuring product supply on time.
- Ensure marketing collateral is displayed at a visible place of retail.
- Regular visits and market development
- Monitor distributor staff’s daily activities.
- Prepare regular sales reporting, analyzing, and solving territory operational issues.
- Provide sales projection SKU-wise on a quarterly basis.
- Engagement with the country lead identify opportunities for new business, planning retail training, building sustainable trade relationship with channel partners and establishing control over trade
- Liaise with supply chain officer to ensure delivery to pharmacies, and per the demand of pharmacy
- Ensure product display at the pharmacy and proper execution of POSM (point of sale materials)
Financials:
- Work closely with Program Manager, Country Lead, and African Director in preparation of the budget for new projects. Develop budget forecasting models and track variance to the budget.
- Ensure project budgets are tightly monitored. Keep track of staffing requirements and ensure that the project is level-loaded to optimize labor. Maintain a tracker of project staff costs.
- Monitor philanthropy subsidy and ensure that this subsidy reduces over time for the project.
Training, Marketing and Communications:
- Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of field staff through training to improve their skills at regular intervals. Ensure that distributors, partners, and retailers are trained as required.
- Working with the Program Manager and Training team, ensure that training content is developed as needed for the project.
- Working with marketing teams, ensure that all collateral and marketing material is available for the project at all points of distribution, retail, or service camps.
- Gather customer and user stories that can be shared across the VisionSpring network of donors and partners.
Overall support:
- Help Managers and Country Leaders develop new project proposals in standard format for approval by the leadership team.
- Take charge of all ongoing and upcoming VisionSpring projects and apply project management discipline to deliver them on time, on budget, and with quality
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree from a reputed institute is required.
- 5 - 7 of relevant professional experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Planning and analytical skills.
- Distributor experience is a plus.
- Negotiation skills.
- Demonstrated project management experience.
- Demonstrated financial or budget management experience.
Desired:
- PMP or PMI certificate
- Experience in pharmacies
- Experience in Risk management
About You:
- You are an arranger - you like to orchestrate all elements of a project and bring it to fruition.
- You have run projects and love the project cycle and you understand the benefits of structured project implementation.
- You love working with all kinds of teams and people. You can bring them together in a smoothly running team.
- You think on your feet, and you recognize the problems in the job that can sometimes deviate from the plan, and are always able to quickly move to Plan B.
- Nothing gives you more satisfaction than flawless work.
- You believe that technology and processes are great enablers to create efficiencies and improve productivity.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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