Senior Manager (Supply Financing)

Leads UNICEF Supply Division's Vaccine Independence Initiative and related supply-financing tools to improve timely, affordable access to essential commodities. The manager oversees pre-financing and risk-financing interventions, transactions, portfolio risk and capital use, while strengthening market dynamics, domestic resource mobilization and financing partnerships.

• Provide strategic leadership for the Vaccine Independence Initiative and other supply-financing tools
• Expand bridge-financing tools to improve essential-commodity availability and market dynamics
• Identify country-financing and market opportunities for financing interventions
• Originate and negotiate country-facing and market-facing transactions
• Develop risk-management strategies and recovery efforts to protect capital
• Oversee capital-base utilization, financing and reporting
• Manage demand forecasting, underwriting and financial management for country subscriptions
• Lead resource mobilization with donors and financing partners

• Master's or equivalent advanced university degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration or a related field
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible managerial experience in complex operations involving financing initiatives and tools
• Experience in markets, market dynamics or analysis for health supplies
• Track record of creating financing transactions and articulating risk and opportunity-cost decisions
• Experience engaging countries on domestic-resource mobilization or credit-recovery processes
• Proficiency in English

• Knowledge of another official UN language or a local language
• Experience reviewing vaccine procurement strategies
• Experience in UN, UNICEF, other development agencies or the private sector
• Relevant country-level experience in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts

• Supply financing
• Financial modelling
• Risk management
• Transaction structuring
• Negotiation
• Market analysis
• Resource mobilization

• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Office applications
• Vaccine Independence Initiative