The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

Vaccines, a core priority of the Gates Foundation and the Global Development division, can save millions of lives a year when delivered effectively. The mission of our Immunization Program Strategy Team (PST) is to urgently reach children, adolescents, and adults -- no matter where they live -- with the vaccines they need. Our goal is a world free of vaccine-preventable diseases, and we do this by working with countries, development partners, and civil society organizations, to make sure that vaccines and immunization are effectively prioritized and delivered. Robust and resilient immunization programs are critical to achieving the promise of vaccination and are a cornerstone of primary health care, and we work to ensure that there are sufficient, affordable supplies to meet demand. We seek to bring new perspectives to challenging problems as we focus on results that can be delivered at scale. All our work on vaccines and immunization contributes to IA2030, which is a vision and commitment by the global community to extend the full benefits of immunization to all by 2030.

Your Role

Act as a central resource and specialist for vaccine market-shaping activities, other global health supply initiatives, and market interventions. Provide technical support around market access initiatives to internal program strategy teams (PSTs), time-limited deal teams, and external partners working on related issues. Contribute to and lead work to ensure coordinated approaches for the sustainable and affordable supply of high-quality global health commodities, crafting, monitoring, and supporting effective prioritized vaccine procurement approaches by global/national buyers.

*This position is a limited-term position for 11 months. Relocation will not be provided.

What You'll Do

• Negotiate, execute, and manage complex portfolio of grants or performance-based contracts.
• Review letters of inquiry and grant proposals and provide clear, concise, and insightful written analyses and recommendations for funding.
• Consult with grantees and other partners to maximize impact of projects and ensure grants are meeting strategy goals.
• Manage and implement a program that aligns with foundation strategy and is operationally integrated with other foundation programs.
• Contribute to the design of new strategies, collaborations, and implementation plans to ensure long-term sustainability and impact.
• Represent the foundation to key program-related external constituencies, as appropriate, on committees related to area of expertise and responsibilities of the position.
• Work with PST leads to deliver program results and understand the context of vaccine and specific global health product programs.
• Lead work to move the practice of applied market dynamics forwards, including working with partners on the quality of market data, methods and resources, and innovation in procurement approaches.
• Advance the market dynamics field by building tools and public goods that make the practice of market dynamics more effective.
• Engage with global buying institutions and national procurers to improve their procurement practices, align their approaches with product strategies/roadmaps, and maintain close information sharing dynamics.
• Build relationships with global partnerships to support and influence their market-shaping approaches and strategies (i.e., Gavi, Global Fund, etc.).
• Monitor vaccine industry trends in manufacturing approaches, technologies, and overall industry dynamics.
• Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; escalate issues in a timely fashion to appropriate stakeholders.

Your Experience

• A Master’s degree or equivalent demonstrated experience, preferably in business administration, public policy, health economics, or public health.
• Significant experience working in health care product categories relevant to foundation global health goals.
• Experience in market research and analysis, healthcare management consulting, or other relevant private/public sector experience.
• Experience acting as a resource to teams on market dynamics, including conducting market research and analysis, scenario planning, pipeline planning, strategic product road mapping, cost analysis, and innovative finance approaches.
• Demonstrated experience working to influence and move large institutions, bureaucracies, and/or projects forward over an extended period.
• Demonstrated quantitative analysis and scenario-planning experience.
• Mastery level vaccine knowledge, including development in emerging and developing markets.
• Mastery level knowledge of market dynamics, including best practices for working with industry partners, internal technical product development peers, and investment professionals.

*Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

The salary range for this role is $169,700 to $254,500 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $185,000 to $277,400 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

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Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

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Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.