Career Opportunities at mPharma

Position Description

• mPharma is looking for a responsible and trustworthy professional with exceptionally high work standards to join our team as a Supply Chain Manager.
• The Supply Chain Manager will be responsible for developing and managing an optimized supply base that will meet current and future requirements, direct demand planning, supply planning, distribution, and logistics as well as sourcing/ purchasing activities and initiatives.
• This position reports to the  Managing Director in Ghana with a dotted reporting line to the Chief Supply Chain Officer.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of end-to-end Supply Chain Operations, Sourcing strategies to leverage relationships with suppliers and global affiliates.
• Develops and implements world-class supply chain management processes, procedures, techniques, and negotiation tactics and strategies.
• Understands and monitors key trends, market factors, cost drivers, and strategic importance of targeted products in order to implement appropriate Supply Chain strategies.
• Provides leadership and strategic direction as it relates to supplier selection, qualification, negotiations, contracting commercialization, and life cycle management in line with global mPharma strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Manages relevant Supply Chain KPIs including backorders, out of stock (OOS), potential out of stocks (POOS), inventory, and reject levels.
• Facilitates development and execution of accurate and data-based supply/demand forecasting, to enable capacity planning, inventory target setting, and performance reporting.
• Identifies and evaluates operational risks such as supply, quality (including drug safety), safety, environment, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Develops and standardizes metrics to harmonize with global jubilant mPharma KPIs, including external benchmarks, to monitor performance and allow for data-driven decision making.
• Analyzes and maintains inventory balance between procurement and warehouse distribution.
• Drives continuous improvement in all aspects of the sourcing process by leveraging internal and external tools.
• Build and maintain relationships with all third-party logistics providers, distributors, and manufacturers to ensure all procurement and fulfillment are met with no disruption to market supply.
• Measures and continuously seek to improve supply chain performance e.g. inventory turns, fill rates, order completeness (KPI and targets).
• Monitors the performance of service providers of warehousing and distribution against agreed KPIs and standards. Resolve operational issues and formulate sustainable solutions for implementation.
• Validates the services and activities related to warehouse operations and distribution both long haul and last mile, provided every month and together with PRs, sign-off for payments to be made.

 
Our Ideal Candidate

• An entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for mPharma’s mission to increase the accessibility and affordability of high-quality medicines.
• A strong work ethic and a proactive “can do” attitude that requires minimal supervision
• A self-starter who can successfully manage a diverse set of concurrent initiatives to create strong business outcomes. 
• Capable of collaborating and building strong relationships internally and externally
• Accountable and results orientated, with strong analytical acumen and approach.
• Can make decisions and solve issues despite a high amount of ambiguity.
• Proficient  Excel skills, and ability to manipulate and interpret complex data files.
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills: Ability to work between sales and finance.
• People management skills: Able to develop and motivate direct reports
• Fluent English with excellent writing, verbal, analytical, and organizational skills
• Experience in the health domain either working with multinational pharmaceutical companies, clinician settings, Tech,  or other healthcare services is a plus.

 
Qualifications

• 8-10 years+ supply chain experience ideally within the retail and pharmaceutical industry is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in either Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, and related field.
• Experience in public health supply chain systems, stakeholders, and networks in developing countries, especially Africa.
• Knowledge in SAP or in relevant ERP systems is required.
• Solid experience in Demand & Supply Planning, S&OP facilitation, and S&OP implementation, ideally from the healthcare industry.
• Demonstrated capability to work cross-functionally and foster a new and existing business relationship.
• Strong analytical skills, ability to interpret data and develop reports.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills to influence stakeholders at all different levels.
• Experience in SAP/ ERP/ESp/APO/ECC systems

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Position Description

• mPharma is looking for a responsible and trustworthy professional with exceptionally high work standards to join our team as a Marketing Manager in Ghana. This role reports directly to the Global Marketing Lead and Managing Director for Ghana.
• It entails building and leading all customer acquisition and retention efforts at Mutti. 

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the growth and retention strategy for acquiring patients and generating revenue growth.
• Launch and manage Mutti, our customer rewards program.
• Experiment with a variety of organic and paid acquisition channels like content creation, content curation, pay per click campaigns, event management, publicity, social media, lead generation campaigns, copywriting, performance analysis
• Drive customer acquisition through digital and traditional marketing.
• Track and analyze revenue and marketing trends, and work with the analytics team to develop quantitative insights into trend drivers.
• Identify and seize future opportunities for growth. Develop a broad portfolio of growth ideas to implement through various market tests and revenue programs.
• Work closely with the product and design team to design and run acquisition tests. 
• Support revenue forecasting and planning by having a deep understanding of future revenue growth and the projected impact of new revenue programs.
• Own the end-to-end implementation of marketing programs, including ensuring timely delivery, project manages all aspects of implementation, working with the analytics team to establish tracking and measurement framework.
• Test what works and scale it. Be responsible for the measurement and reporting of all in-market tests and live revenue programs you own, including iterating and optimization.
• Deliver against revenue goals and projections.

Our Ideal Candidate

• An entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for mPharma’s mission to increase the accessibility and affordability of high-quality medicines
• A strong work ethic and a proactive “can do” attitude that requires minimal supervision
• Fluent English with excellent writing, verbal, analytical, and organizational skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel.
• Experience in the retail, telecommunications, or e-commerce domain leading customer acquisition efforts and marketing.
• Strong interpersonal skills to network with new people and develop business relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders
• Experience in data analysis, SEO, and social media marketing.
• A self-starter who can multitask while consistently producing high-quality deliverables for a diverse set of concurrent initiatives

 
Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, or related fields
• 4+ years of professional experience in analytics and marketing.
• Fluent oral and written English
• Spotless business and personal background
   

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Who are you

• You are a smart, kind, team player that wants to innovate while building value
• You have experience with Javascript including stateful Single Page Apps, asynchronous programming, Promises, ES6
• You have a solid knowledge of React
•  You are experienced with modern Javascript tools like Webpack
• You love best practices in your area of expertise
• You believe in practices like automated testing and continuous delivery
• You are comfortable with designing and building scalable, responsive user interfaces
• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and written

What you might work on

• Next-generation pharmacy management software
• Optimizing component renders
• Implementing UIs that are as beautiful as they are useful
• Creating generic, reusable components to serve as part of an interactive design library
• Technology keywords (to name a few)
• #react   #redux   #webpack    #materialui   #docker   #eslint   #normalizr   #immutable  #styled-components #microfrontends

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Description

• As a quality assurance engineer at mPharma, you will work with an autonomous squad of engineers, product managers, and designers that decide what needs to be built and how to build it.
• Each day QA engineers at mPharma are working on problems like how to create processes and controls that assure that products are top quality, enforcing contract testing for microservices and automating regression tests using.
• Furthermore, we believe that engineers play a critical role in the product definition, so you will work with product managers and designers to determine how to solve real problems that real people have.
• At the end of the day, mPharma believes in people, and in addition to being highly skilled, our team is collaborative and welcoming.
• We are looking for engineers who want to grow the company, themselves, and their colleagues.

Who are you

• You have experience in software development
• You have experience in software quality assurance
• You are able to write clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• You have hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• You have hands-on experience with automated testing tools
• You have experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus
• Knowledge in python and/or selenium is a plus

 
What you might work on

• Perform and document risk analysis
• Code and perform automated tests
• Document test cases, create test plans, perform manual tests and record test progress and results
• Develop standards and procedures to determine product quality and release readiness
• Identify, isolate, and track bugs throughout testing
• Research and analyze product features being tested
• Research new tools, technologies, and testing processes
• Review user interfaces for consistency and functionality
   

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Description

• As a backend engineer at mPharma, you will work on an autonomous squad of engineers, product managers, and designers that decide what needs to be built and how to build it.
• Each day, backend engineers at mPharma are working on problems like how to create complex data enrichment pipelines, how to use computer vision to enhance the on-boarding experience, or how to present to the team that contract testing is awesome.
• Furthermore, we believe that engineers play a critical role in the product definition, so you will work with product managers and designers to determine how to solve real problems that real people have.
• At the end of the day, mPharma believes in people, and in addition to being highly skilled, our team is collaborative and welcoming. We are looking for engineers who want to grow the company, themselves, and their colleagues.

Who are you

• You are a smart, kind, team player that wants to innovate while building value
• You are comfortable writing Python
• You are experienced with modern infrastructure and tooling
• You love best practices in your area of expertise
• You believe in practices like automated testing and continuous delivery
• You are comfortable with designing and building scalable, distributed systems
• You know how to apply data structures and algorithms to real world problems

What you might work on

• Automated data structuring and enrichment
• API development
• End user features like collaborative forecasting tools, phased payment programs, analytics platforms
• Integrations between complex systems
• Technology keywords (to name a few)
• #python #django #hug #golang #kubernetes #marathon #mesos #docker #redis #postgres #rabbit #nifi #redshift #java #vault #terraform #react #redux #pact #openid #istio #ambassador

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Description

• As a devops engineer at mPharma, you will work with other engineers to identify key infrastructural improvements and innovations as well as tools that support other engineers’ workflows.
• Each day devops engineers at mPharma are working on problems like how to create a seamless CI/CD pipeline, how to implement blue/green deployments, and how to manage data pipeline infrastructure.
• Furthermore, we believe that devops teams need to be able to have complete autonomy over what problems they solve and how.
• At the end of the day, mPharma believes in people, and in addition to being highly skilled, our team is collaborative and welcoming. We are looking for engineers who want to grow the company, themselves, and their colleagues.

Who are you

• You are a smart, kind, team player that wants to innovate while building value
• You are comfortable writing bash scripts and infrastructure as code
• You are experienced with modern infrastructure and architectures
• You love security best practices
• You believe in immutable infrastructure
• You are comfortable with designing and building scalable, distributed systems
• You know how to manage incidents and solve complex problems

What might you work on

• Writing Terraform plans
• Building developer facing tools that help with service management and monitoring
• Creating guidelines for creating optimized docker images
• Integrating workflow tools with Kubernetes clusters
• Improving proactive security systems
• Technology keywords (to name a few)
• #kubernetes #marathon #mesos #docker #postgres #rabbit #nifi #vault #terraform #ansible #redis #elasticsearch #redshift #istio #ambassador #aws #gcp #prometheus

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Description

• As a data engineer at mPharma, you will work on an autonomous squad of engineers, product managers, and designers that decide what needs to be built and how to build it.
• Each day data engineers at mPharma are working on problems like how to create complex data enrichment pipelines, how to use computer vision to enhance the on-boarding experience, or how to present to the team the wonders of Spark.
• Furthermore, we believe that engineers play a critical role in the product definition, so you will work with product managers and designers to determine how to solve real problems that real people have.
• At the end of the day, mPharma believes in people, and in addition to being highly skilled, our team is collaborative and welcoming. We are looking for engineers who want to grow the company, themselves, and their colleagues.

Who are you

• You are a smart, kind, team player that wants to innovate while building value
• You are comfortable writing Python and you love Jupyter
• You are experienced with modern infrastructure and tooling
• You love best practices in your area of expertise
• You believe in practices like data provenance, automated testing, continuous delivery
• You are comfortable with designing and building scalable, distributed systems
• You know how to apply data structures and algorithms to real world problems
• You are great at performing data analysis across multiple data sets

What you might work on

• Automated data structuring and enrichment
• API development
• Integrations between complex systems
• Optimization of data queries and flows
• Forecasting with models like Deep AR
• Technology keywords (to name a few)
• #python #django #hug #golang #kubernetes #marathon #mesos #docker #redis #postgres #rabbit #nifi #redshift #java #vault #terraform #react #redux #pact #openid #istio #ambassador