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Job Title:  Business Development / Commercial Manager

Organisation: Medical Access Uganda Limited (MAUL)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

For 25 years, Medical Access has transformed healthcare supply chains in 35+ low-and middle-income countries. Our journey started in 1998 during the peak of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa.  The UNAIDS Drug Access Initiative (DAI), the world’s first antiretroviral (ARV) access program in low- and middle-income countries, gave rise to Medical Access and enabled us to initiate the introduction of ARVs in Uganda at a critical time.

Since those early days, Medical Access has evolved to provide comprehensive supply chain solutions to leading local and international agencies for a wide range of medical products. Today, we combine our rich experience and robust digital infrastructure to transform supply chains into agile, efficient and reliable systems tailored to the needs of the communities and stakeholders it serves.

Job Summary:   The Business Development / Commercial Manager drive the development and growth of opportunities in the logistics business, maintain customer relationships, and support all business goals and objectives to achieve revenue targets.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Formulate and implement strategies for business development in pursuit of demanding targets and objectives of Supply chain and logistics.
• Identify and track potential opportunities and clients, developing technical proposals to potential clients.
• Manage client relationship and engagement in supply chain and logistics sector.
• Negotiating with clients for increased business to maximize logistics service performance for the Medical Access and Group bond warehouses and fleet
• Support the Business Development team to search for new anchor clients and principals.
• Support the business development team to attain sales targets for warehousing and transportation service offering.
• Coordinate training and administration of supply chain and logistics teams– secure alignment between processes, practices and branding activities and field force activities.
• Focus on complete business/value chain and optimize the effort and flexibility towards the marketing of logistics services.
• Achieve monthly and yearly sales and profit targets via established business portfolio and new client introductions.
• Maximizing commercial opportunities interfacing at senior management level with key customers and suppliers to create long term profitable business relationships.
• Any other duty that may be assigned to the manager from time to time.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in international business, procurement & logistics management, supply chain management, or any other related field.
• Master’s degree in business administration, supply chain management, logistics and inventory management.
• A professional qualification in CLSCMP or CIPS is desirable.
• At least five to eight years of experience in business development or commercial operations of supply chain and logistics especially in procurement, warehousing, transportation, freight forwarding / shipping, customs clearance.

How to Apply:

All candidates should send their applications with an application letter, CV and copies of academic documents should be submitted to hr@medical-access.org

Deadline: 27^th October 2023 by 5:00pm.

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