** This position is a fixed-term contract for 2 year, renewable.
- Background
The MSF South East and East Asia-Pacific (SEEAP) partnership was established between the MSF Offices of Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia as a collaboration in the development of MSF’s institutional activities across the South East and East Asia region. This partnership focuses particularly on the opportunities for diversifying MSF’s revenue and intake of professional staff in new South East and East Asia markets. It also proposed a new business model of development, relying strongly on the existing knowledge, experience, and resources of the existing SEEAP Sections. By tapping into this regional capacity, the SEEAP Partnership intends to identify meaningful at scale contributions to Operations that can be best secured and serviced from this region because of the comparative advantage that offers.
To this end MSF is now setting up a SEEAP Supply Unit with a primary goal to identify qualified and competitive suppliers of medical items (i.e. drugs, medical consumables and medical devices) in the South East and East Asia region for the Movement. MSF also aims to reduce our impact on carbon footprint by validating suppliers in various geographical locations and thus enabling a more flexible and efficient delivery model. This Unit and its supply services aim to be fully integrated into MSF’s existing Supply community set up.
- Objectives of the Position
The Korean Market Sourcing Specialist focuses in exploring, identifying and building relationships with suppliers in South Korea, to enable sourcing from the region and contribute to the diversification of medical item suppliers of MSF. The Korean Market Sourcing Specialist will also provide local market intelligence to the MSF supply community. The overall objectives are to reduce risk of shortage and to reduce procurement costs without compromising product quality.
- Tasks and Responsibilities
- Understand the needs and sourcing requests from MSF European Supply Centres and operations
- Organize market research in Korea based on needs and requests
- Conduct analysis and make proposal of Korean suppliers that meet MSF criteria and needs
- Support in supplier validation activities in terms of quality, commercial, ethics and sustainability aspects (e.g. collection of information, site visit)
- Support to ESC procurement department in negotiation and contract management
- Coordinate procurement through traders/distributors if needed
- Support in communication with, and the management of, supplier relationships
- Maintain and update a database of Korean suppliers and their corresponding product portfolio
- Develop market intelligence, updates, trends and knowledge on regulations related to Korean medical industry in order to promptly identify any risk and opportunity in the Korean medical market
- Connect with relevant associations and organizations (e.g. Manufacturers Association)
- Attend relevant conference and exhibition to explore qualified suppliers, build supply network and follow Korea supply market trends
- Support European Supply Centres with the facilitation of logistics and transportation negotiations if and when required
- Identify enablers for securing a sustainable sourcing and supply situation from Korean suppliers, and provide recommendations
- Qualifications and Requirements
Essential criteria
- Bachelor degree (preferably medical-related or in business administration or supply chain management) or higher
- Professional experience of minimum 3 years of sourcing (preferably of medical items and on behalf of an international organization) in Korea
- Fluent in Korean and English
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office environment
- Autonomous, proactive, organized and attentive to details
- Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-cultural environment
- Commitment to MSF values
Desirable criteria
- Pharmacist qualification and background
- Experience working in remote models of operation
- Prior experience with MSF or an equivalent INGO
- Strong network in the Korean medical manufacturing field
- Expected Start Date
The position is expected to start from early November 2021 (exact date depends on recruitment process and to be negotiated).
- Application Procedures
If you are interested in this position, please send your motivation letter and CV in English to HR Department at: recruit@seoul.msf.org
Application Deadline: September 19th, 2021
We will contact the selected candidate after the application deadline date within 2 weeks