Senior Vice President, Global Medicine Supply Chain (Medicine Security)

Position: Senior Vice President (SVP), Medicine Security

Department: Medicine Security

Reports to: President and Chief Executive Officer

Direct Reports: Direct reports up to 5; indirect reports up to 50

Location: The role is remote with some travel to HQ and country office locations throughout the year.

The employee in this role will be living in and working remotely from CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, MD, MA, NC, NJ, NY, OR, PA, Puerto Rico, TN, TX, VA, or WA, with a preference for candidates within commuting distance of Stamford, CT

Salary and Benefits: $275,000 to $300,000 USD gross annually

You can review an overview of our benefits here, under “U.S. Compensation and Benefits”

We will determine where the salary offer will fall within this range based upon the evaluation of the qualifications during the stages of the recruitment process. Our transparent and equitable pay bands, as well as our salary offer based on the qualifications evaluated in our process, are integral parts of our organizational systems and intentional culture. The salary offer is not negotiated as we know that negotiation is not aligned with equity and best practices for ensuring fair pay for employees of all identities and backgrounds.

About Americares:

Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization that helps people and communities around the world access health in times of disaster and every day. Each year, Americares reaches 85 countries on average, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine, medical supplies, and emergency aid. Americares is one of the world’s leading nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more information, visit americares.org.

Americares Values:

We create global community, treating people as they want to be treated.

We respond effectively and responsibly, putting plans into practice.

We embed ethics and equity in our work and workplace.

We are better together; partnership is at our core.

We ask and listen, to create sustainable solutions for a healthier tomorrow.

We commit to quality, growing and improving to ensure individuals and communities thrive.

About Americares Medicine Security Work and Vison

Medicine security ensures all people have quality medicines and medical supplies when they need them by expanding access to essential medicines and supplies, empowering communities to achieve better health outcomes. At present, significant barriers prevent widespread access to quality medicines. These barriers—such as high costs, insufficient healthcare infrastructure, regulatory challenges, limited supply chain resilience, and socioeconomic determinants—do not exist in isolation. Instead, they are interconnected, reinforcing one another and deepening disparities. Addressing these challenges requires a systematic approach that not only improves supply chains but also strengthens health systems, removes financial barriers, and fosters collaboration.

To improve health outcomes for patients and communities, Americares increases accessibility, availability, affordability and acceptability of medicine and supplies for partner health providers. We are one of the leading global nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies, distributing over $1 billion in medicine and supplies to 85 countries on average each year from ten warehouses across the globe (combination of Americares owned and third party). Medicines and medical supplies are typically sourced through donations from pharmaceutical partners as well as procurement. As a deeply collaborative organization whose model is rooted in global-local partnership, we have an unrivaled network of over 4,000 local, national and international health and social service partners receiving our health commodities.

Role Description:

Americares is looking for a seasoned global executive leader with mixed market health commodity experience (private, government, and non-profit) to lead our global medicine security strategy and vision. The person in the role will leverage their extensive industry aligned partnerships and engagement to support innovative business model design, operational excellence, and funding diversification, ensuring that communities around the world have sustainable access to medicine in disasters and every day.

In the first 90 days, the role will:

• Learn and live Americares values.
• Look, learn, and listen.
• Assess current global medicine security strategy, team structure, and supply chain performance.
• Build relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, most especially across programs, leadership team, and key partners.
• Understand and identify additional risks and gaps in systems and delivery processes.

In the first 6 months, the role will:

• Develop and begin implementing a refreshed global medicine security strategy aligned with organizational goals.
• Launch initial improvements to supply chain efficiency and partner collaboration, pilot innovative models.
• Advance thought leadership through industry engagement and strengthen compliance roadmap development.

In the first year, the role will:

• Fully operationalize the new medicine security strategy with measurable impact and reporting systems.
• Deliver improved global medicine delivery performance, partner satisfaction, and supply chain efficiency.
• Position Americares as a leader in medicine security through strategic partnerships, visibility, and innovation.

Duties and Responsibilities

STRATEGY and INNOVATION:

• Assess, define, and oversee the organization’s global medicine security strategy, aligned with the organization’s mission and strategic plan including broader programmatic priorities.
• Develop and advance innovative business models to optimize the health commodity supply chain and logistics ecosystem for wider, deeper, and more sustainable global medicine access for communities in disaster and every day.
• Keep abreast of and integrate industry trends and market best practices to enhance all aspects of medicine security.
• Communicate strategy and progress effectively; engage with Leadership Team, organizational stakeholders and board of directors in strategic decision-making that advances innovative and effective medicine security.
• Analyze health commodity markets, best practices, and ongoing strategies for providing a diversified medicine security portfolio.
• Partner with SVP, Programs and Chief Medical Officer to align strategy and impact, coordinating larger vision as well as day to day continuous improvement across and within teams.
• Identify and develop new (and foster existing) strategic partnerships or alliances to accelerate implementation and scale.
• Inspire and lead cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment and accountability across all phases of the initiative.
• Partner with key internal stakeholders to lead the vision for enhanced monitoring and evaluation of medicine security data, reporting, reach, impact, and continuous improvement.

EXTERNAL RELATIONS:

• Speak and present about Medicine Security in coordination with the Marketing and Communications team, highlighting organizational subject matter expertise, results, and impact at the forefront of key messaging and campaigns.
• Actively participate in subject matter workgroups, forums, conferences, and coalitions with private, public, and nonprofit local and global medicine security leaders.
• Advance Americares brand and base, ensuring global visibility and engagement for the organization’s medicine security impact.
• Work with the fundraising team to raise funds for Medicine Security work.
• Partner with the CFO and Treasurer to explore innovative finance models to support work.

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT and PARTNERSHIP:

• Engage and deepen strategic global and local partnerships to optimize supply and distribution networks.
• Cultivate and sustain organizational relationships with pharmaceutical companies, healthcare manufacturers, suppliers, donors, NGOs, global health organizations, and other key stakeholders.
• Create and communicate vision for enhancements in how we connect global health commodity supply and demand opportunities, while actively addressing current and future challenges.
• Design and enhance strategic plans and systems for diversifying and augmenting the global health commodity donor base.

GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN IMPROVEMENTS and INNOVATIONS:

• Drive improvement and innovation in global supply chain management, ensuring medicines and medical supplies reach the last mile recipient.
• Improve in-country supply chain management by assessing new business models, training and partnering with ministries of health, local supply health centers and other private sector partnerships.
• Provide strategic support and leadership to senior medicine security team members in their roles to advance continuous improvement in Americares supply chain operations.
• Ensure current and future medicine security business practices are compliant with U.S, global, and local regulations in the contexts where we operate and plan to operate, partnering with General Counsel to coordinate business, risk, and compliance needs.

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE:

• Integrate best practices and data informed decision making to enhance end-to-end medicine security operations.
• Collaborate with technical programmatic leads to ensure pharmaceutical best practices and standards are integrated throughout the health commodity planning, storing, and delivery process.
• Build an effective departmental budget and staffing model that ensures financial stewardship, intentional resource allocation, and strategic financial decisions aligned with strategy and impact.
• Oversee the strategy for systems, talent capacity building, and process enhancements that increase efficiencies and impact.
• Ensure efficient, timely, and cost-effective delivery of medicines to partner organizations and communities, including in humanitarian responses.
• Provide a vision for enhanced collaboration models that ensure internal teams are working together to reach KPIs and improve communication, workflow, and collaboration within Medicine Security and across departments.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT:

• Lead high-performing teams across functions, balancing high expectations and accountability with support and focus on well-being.
• Bring mission based and values aligned leadership, fostering organizational culture and effectiveness, working with peers and counterparts across the organization to identify areas for continuous improvement, while suggesting and implementing solutions.
• People manage staff, ensuring their success in meeting objectives while also supporting their professional growth.
• Actively model and contribute to Americares values, work culture and mission.
• Engage in and contribute to team spaces with openness, global competencies, and a growth mindset.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Competencies required for the role:

• Mission driven leadership that models organizational values.
• At least 15 years of progressive results in global leadership roles within the health commodities industry, including but not limited to global pharmaceutical supply chain management, medicine access partnerships, medical donations, and/or humanitarian and development sector.
• Deep experience in new business development including building partnerships and alliances across private and public sector.
• At least 10 years effectively leading senior organizational leaders, people managing VPs or equivalent role levels that directly support C-suite or executive leadership.
• Demonstrated track record of global strategic medicine security business model design and implementation success, including clear examples from all stages of new business model project cycle planning and execution.
• Experience in navigating global regulations and expansion considerations (e.g. registration, licenses, etc.) in diverse local and global markets.
• Successful stewardship of health commodity budgets, resources, and systems.
• Impactful thought leadership experience with executive leaders and Board members.
• Demonstrated success with global and large-scale organizational change leadership, leading multi-country and multi-department initiatives that have resulted in measurable improvements, making organizations’ medicine security reach more sustainable and impactful.
• Excellent strategic decision making that has achieved proven results in complex contexts.
• Deep global medicine security partnership network membership and experience, with coalitions, workgroups, and forums that advance innovation in global medicine supply chain.
• Impeccable communication skills and ability to influence internal and external stakeholders with messaging, partnership alignment, and proven change communication strategies.
• Ability to travel across the United States and globally at least 6 times per year and more often as needed.

Preferred qualifications for the role include:

• Fluency in languages that are spoken in at least one of our core locations (India, Philippines, Tanzania, El Salvador, Colombia, etc.), in addition to English.
• Supply chain certification, advanced global health commodity or logistics degree, or equivalent.

Additionally, our core competencies as an organization are:

• Ownership and results
• Communication
• Problem solving
• Equity and inclusion
• Teamwork and conflict resolution
• Leadership
• Prioritization
• Management
• Strategy and planning
• Decision making

What you can expect, if you move forward in the different stages of the recruitment process:

1) Written application (Resume, cover letter, and application questions)

2) People and Talent initial screen interview (Videocall for 1 hour)

3) Interview with SVP, Programs and Chief Medical Officer (Videocall for 45 minutes)

4) Interview with President & CEO (Videocall for 45 minutes)

5) 15 minute presentation to and interview with some of the Leadership Team members (Videocall total of 1 hour)

6) Panel interview with some medicine security team members (Videocall for 1 hour)

7) Board members’ interview (Videocall 30 minutes)

8) Reference Check

9) Offer (for top candidate)

10) Background check

11) Onboarding

Americares complies with the EEOC: https://www.eeoc.gov/laws

Americares is currently authorized to support remote work employees in the following locations: CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, MD, MA, NC, NJ, NY, OR, PA, Puerto Rico, TN, TX, VA, and WA. Please note that we do not provide relocation assistance at this time. #LI-REMOTE

Americares is committed to ensuring safe and accountable workplaces and programs. Our code of conduct, organizational values, and policies and procedures help to safeguard the welfare of everyone working for and participating in Americares programs. Americares is committed to the prevention of all types of abuse, discrimination, harassment, and exploitation. Employment with Americares will be subject to appropriate screening, reference, credentials, and background checks. By applying to our organization, job applicants confirm their understanding of and consent to our procedures during recruitment, and to adhering to our values and commitment to safe and accountable workplaces and programs as an employee.

This job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Americares. At any point in the recruitment process, we may request additional information to confirm qualifications. Any misrepresentation of qualifications in any stage of the process will prevent the applicant from moving forward in the process.

If you have a specific request or need assistance to fully participate in the application or recruitment process, please email us at talentcenter@americares.org.