Current Vacancies at Field Technology Development Partners Nigeria Limited

Field Technology Development Partners Nigeria Limited - We are helping governments and businesses make good on the promise of healthcare in the fastest growing parts of the world. And it starts with access. We make pharmaceutical supply chain radically simple, affordable, and effective, helping providers, from the largest health systems to the smallest drug shops, ensure a new generation can access the care it needs to flourish. Field is a mission-focused, fast-growing health-tech supply chain company, providing critical supply chain services for public and private health systems in Nigeria and Kenya. Our investor-backed Shelf Life service powers one of the largest networks of community pharmacies in Africa. Our technology platform, Field Supply, powers both Shelf Life and large-scale public health supply chains helping serve millions of patients each year. We are a diverse and distributed team of people working at the forefront of technology on meaningful, interesting, and urgent issues.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:       Job Title: Data Scientist Location: Abuja - Nigeria or Berlin - Germany

Job Description

• We’re looking for motivated data scientist to support our innovative health system logistics initiatives from our headquarters in Berlin or Abuja
• You’ll help collect and manage data from our growing health logistics network to provide key operational inputs and insights that drive our operations, shape our products, and ultimately strengthen health systems.
• Your mission will involve exploring data from operational systems for managerial and product development insights, developing models which drive health commodity distribution for maximum access across the network, as well as responding to requests for specific extracts and reports, and investigating data quality issues alongside our business, technology, and health teams to help identify and diagnose problems and opportunities.

Requirements Preferable:

• Supply chain management experience
• M.S or B.A / B.S related to Statistics, or comparable work experience
• Professional experience using Github as a primary source control system, and git-flow as a primary workflow
• Experience applying statistical machine learning techniques to real-world problems
• Experience with business intelligence systems.

Required:

• Professional experience in automated data analysis and manipulation for medium-large data sets
• Expert spreadsheet skills, including descriptive statistical analysis, develop pivot tables, use advanced formulae
• Professional experience conducting data queries and data manipulation (we primarily use Javascript, Python, SQL, and shell scripting to get our work done)
• Professional experience using statistics for data analysis and decision support (distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.)
• Experience working with nosql databases (couchdb, elasticsearch a bonus)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to play multiple roles in a team
• Scientific mindset, and proven ability to decompose and distil complex problems into clear testable components
• A deep curiosity about the live sources and implications of data
• 4+ years work experience in data analysis or related field, including considerable professional experience working in a team
• Strong mathematical background
• High creativity and problem solving abilities
• Language skills: English (fluent).

Responsibilities Drive Shelf Life Operations, Marketing and Sales:

• Build and execute business plans to meet agreed goals.
• Develop and implement creative solutions to overcome obstacles.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams e.g Central Sales & Operations
• Ensure accurate and timely completion of all territory reports, maintenance of territory records and handling of enquiries and complaints quickly and professionally, and in accordance with company procedures.

Build effective customer relationships:

• Develop business relationships with customers and other stakeholders that support delivery of business results.
• Assist development of local networks to facilitate goal achievement.
• Partner with stakeholders - key opinion leaders within customer associations and organisation to build and maintain strong working relationships
• Use functional knowledge of Field, the pharmaceutical marketplace, community retail and hospital pharmacy practice to meet both client and business goals.

Apply knowledge of pharmaceutical products and markets:

• Gather market insights to position Shelf Life value proposition, competitor awareness and effectively communicate the benefits of Shelf Life VS other options.
• Adapt and optimize product mix to local territory market and practice.
• Conduct rapid, focused research to solve problems identified.

Key Performance Metrics

• Achievement of Field / Shelf Life sales and market share targets vs plan.
• Achievement of Shelf Life service subscription and service levels vs plan.
• Implementation of cascaded service improvements and value-added programmes/initiatives.

Requirements

• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Degree in Pharmacy
• Minimum of 2 years experience in retail pharmacy hospital/pharmaceutical industry practice and / or management experience in supply chain management (commercial sector).
• Licensed with relevant regulators as a registered pharmacist and valid current member and in good standing with relevant professional associations.
• 3 to 5 years professional experience working as a pharmacist in the country
• Inventory and logistics management experience preferred
• Small and medium-sized business experience preferred
• Master of Business Administration or Master of Public Health will be an added advantage
• Experience working with regulatory bodies preferred
• Assertive, proactive / self motivated, analytical, solutions focused and committed to highest industry standards of service delivery.

What You'll Do Develop Strategy:

• Support development of marketing and comms components of the growth strategy
• Work across teams to identify communication gaps and opportunities to drive client retention, growth, and impact

Craft Copy & Communications Design:

• Craft a distinct voice for our brands
• Develop clear messaging across Field’s stakeholder groups, including potential and current pharmacy clients, government clients, and tech community
• Produce style guides to maintain consistency across the company
• Develop user-facing product and service documentation
• Plan, research, write, and edit regular updates for various audiences: blog posts, newsletters, and social media updates

Manage Distribution & Community:

• Build our social and digital reach and engagement
• Manage distribution of our content across media channels
• Help our sales teams deploy content through each stage of our sales process

Qualifications

• 5 years in Marketing, Communications, and / or sales roles
• Foundational knowledge of copywriting, a commitment to tight and accurate copy, and a desire to help us tell and scale great stories.
• Experience positioning technology products and services particularly in African B2B and B2C markets
• Experience in some mix of the markets and fields we serve: Nigeria, Kenya, healthcare, pharmacy, financial services, retail.
• Experience writing ad copy for the digital space, including Facebook and Instagram ads, social media, as well as other conversion-focused copy.
• Self-starter, able to run with projects.

Compensation

• Competitive salary and benefits, including stock options.

Job Description

• We are looking for a teammate with a mix of UI design and front end development experience to work with us on software to help improve healthcare in Nigeria, Kenya and beyond. At Field, we design and build software to solve very difficult problems in frontier markets. Our tech has to function in remote locations with poor connectivity and must oftentimes be used by untrained community health workers with low tech literacy.
• The core of our challenge is simplifying the complex tasks of inventory and commodity management for the health workers and community pharmacists we serve. This challenge drives all of the UX and UI design we do, and designing interfaces which meet this challenge will be the core of your role. You will report to the Design Lead and be a core contributor to the design team’s output and processes. We also need the person in this role to be able to contribute to implementation of UI designs in CSS and some javascript.
• In this capacity, you'll work on building and supporting our software’s interface, with a focus on well-structured, maintainable CSS, modular component systems and performant UIs. You will be part of a cross-functional team designing and implementing new features, but will also work closely with other developers in Berlin and Nigeria, supporting each other and collaborating through code reviews.

What you’ll do every day In the day-to-day, you will:

• Receive input in the form of wireframes, sketches, user research and specs, and synthesize this information to design UI components and views.
• Visualize your concepts and ideas in Sketch or Figma.
• Communicate UI concepts to a broader team during regular design reviews, where you should be able to articulate and debate the value of your approach.
• Generate meaningful prototypes to test ideas with users.
• Implement front end components in our design system and/or interfaces in our app, using CSS / React.
• Design and implement updates to our brand websites (built on JAMstack principles).
• Some travel to our offices (and out to the field) in Nigeria or Kenya may be required. We are generally pretty flexible with travel arrangements.

Application Requirements

• You should have 3 or more years of UI design and implementation experience, with a strong portfolio to back it up.
• You care deeply about usability.
• You are comfortable committing front end code and have professional experience shipping modular CSS and front end javascript.
• You have experience working with front end design patterns / systems.
• You have worked collaboratively with teams to ship products, but can self-organise when needed.
• You communicate thoughtfully and succinctly.
• You feel comfortable working in lean environments with agile methods.
• Excellent collaboration skills - we are a distributed team and pay close attention to our documentation and team communication.
• You are fluent in English.

Bonus points for:

• Experience in performant UI animation
• Experience designing for novice or semi-literate users
• Data visualization skills
• Experience working with React

Responsibilities Drive Shelf Life Operations, Marketing and Sales:

• Build and execute business plans to meet agreed goals.
• Develop and implement creative solutions to overcome obstacles.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams e.g Central Sales & Operations
• Ensure accurate and timely completion of all territory reports, maintenance of territory records and handling of enquiries and complaints quickly and professionally, and in accordance with company procedures.

Build effective customer relationships:

• Develop business relationships with customers and other stakeholders that support delivery of business results.
• Assist development of local networks to facilitate goal achievement.
• Partner with stakeholders - key opinion leaders within customer associations and organisation to build and maintain strong working relationships
• Use functional knowledge of Field, the pharmaceutical marketplace, community retail and hospital pharmacy practice to meet both client and business goals.

Apply knowledge of pharmaceutical products and markets:

• Gather market insights to position Shelf Life value proposition, competitor awareness and effectively communicate the benefits of Shelf Life VS other options.
• Adapt and optimize product mix to local territory market and practice.
• Conduct rapid, focused research to solve problems identified.

Key Performance Metrics:

• Achievement of Field/Shelf Life sales and market share targets vs plan.
• Achievement of Shelf Life service subscription and service levels vs plan.
• Implementation of cascaded service improvements and value-added programmes/initiatives.

Requirements

• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Degree in Pharmacy
• Minimum of 2 years experience in retail pharmacy/hospital/pharmaceutical industry practice and/or management experience in supply chain management (commercial sector).
• Licensed with relevant regulators as a registered pharmacist and valid current member and in good standing with relevant professional associations.
• 3 to 5 years professional experience working as a pharmacist in the country
• Inventory and logistics management experience preferred
• Small and medium-sized business experience preferred
• Master of Business Administration or Master of Public Health will be an added advantage
• Experience working with regulatory bodies preferred
• Assertive, proactive/self motivated, analytical, solutions focused and committed to highest industry standards of service delivery.

Details

• We’re looking for a QA engineer to lead our QA team in the development manual and automated tests for the data-heavy, mission-critical logistics and program analytics services which we provide to public and private health supply chains.
• You’ll help design and develop test plans and automated tests for application and data processing code, promote best practices among our engineering teams, and help lead our junior qa team in their regular testing work.
• This is a full time 12-month contract position based in Berlin or Abuja. Full time German employment also an option.

Required

• Professional experience in QA engineering for live, data-driven systems
• Attention to detail and a drive to investigate real-world systems through data
• Professional experience with client- and server-side Javascript and document-oriented databases
• Experience working with enterprise applications featuring complex business or information processing rules
• Interest in mentoring junior QA and engineering staff
• Excellent communication skills and ability to play multiple roles in a team
• 4+ years work experience in commercial software development, including considerable professional experience working in a team
• Ability to travel for 2-3 week trips to other offices
• High creativity and problem solving abilities
• A penchant for creating internal tools
• Language skills: English (fluent)

Bonus

• Professional experience with javascript end to end testing, React, Elasticsearch, CouchDB and serverless infrastructures
• Supply chain experience
• Strong gif game

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