Pharmacy Officer

Experience and Competencies: Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Pharmacist professional preferably having at least 2 years of demonstrated experience in pharmacy management, medical warehouse management, supervision, and monitoring of pharma activities.

Experience working with an international organization managing reproductive health programs or hospital pharmacy is preferable.

Women candidates are encouraged to apply.

Strong monitoring and supervision capacities to identify critical bottlenecks in pharma supply activities.

Must be proficient in MS Excel and Office.

Experience using ERP systems to manage pharmaceuticals would add additional value.

Ability and flexibility to understand the cultural and political environment

Excellent communication skills

Must be a teammate with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work under pressure in a stressful environment, displaying patience, kindness, and tact

Ability to be creative, flexible, adaptive, and willing to work in challenging situations

Ability to live in challenging conditions and ability to work under difficult, high-pressure situations

Language Preference

Good written and spoken English language skills including report writing. People who have knowledge of Chittagonian language will get a preference.

Professional Degree/ Certification

Registered A-grade pharmacist from the Pharmacy Council of Bangladesh.

Responsibilities & Context

Purpose of the Role

Under the direct supervision of the Pharmacist and overall guidance from the senior health managers, the position will be responsible for monitoring and supervision of reproductive health commodities throughout the reproductive health program. She will participate in the definition of strategies for reproductive health commodity security, demand forecast, donation processing, distribution, and use of reproductive health commodities in the programs in line with the health departmentâs recommendations and operating procedures whilst ensuring donor and national regulations are followed.

Highlights of Key Responsibilities

Reproductive health commodity management:

Collect, aggregate, and compile consumption reports from the reproductive health centers. Ensure appropriate demand forecasts are placed quarterly to the supervisor.

Draw up the first draft of orders with the supervisor and other partners aligning with the organizational and donor parameters such as consumption report analysis and stock analysis at both the central warehouse and facility level.

Monitor the maximum and minimum inventory and stock availability at the reproductive health centers and flag potential understock, and overstock to the supervisor and senior health managers.

Monitor the expiry date of the reproductive health commodities and take proactive action to minimize the risk of expiry which may lead to financial loss for the organization and donor.

Participates in implementing pharmaceutical supply chain standard operating procedures at reproductive health centers.

Facility supervision and monitoring:

Conduct routine field visits to the reproductive health centers and perform a systemic check of the personnel, process, and infrastructure of the centers for reproductive health commodity suitability. Provide documented critical observations and recommendations for further scope of improvement.

Perform systematic checks of all documents to ensure the appropriate traceability of the product including but not limited to verifying the transition of commodities from the central warehouse to the facility and the facility to the clients.

Systemic check of prescription to ensure that all treatments are aligned with the rational use of drug principle.