Are you a change maker who wants to play a pivotal role in restoring vision for millions of people in low-income settings across Nigeria?

VisionSpring, an international social enterprise, seeks a Pharmacy Territorial Lead – in its project execution in Nigeria. The Pharmacy Project Lead is delivering one of our newest models of service delivery, bringing clear vision into the community, closer to those who had limited access before.

Reporting to the Global Phramacy Manager, this is a full-time, contract-based position for a duration of 2 years, requiring a candidate located in Northern Nigeria with in-depth knowledge of the local market. The Pharmacy Territory Project Lead will be responsible for developing a scalable and sustainable business model for distributing reading eyeglasses through pharmacy store.

ABOUT YOU

• You are an arranger – you like to orchestrate all elements of a project and bring it to fruition.
• You have ran projects and love the project cycle and you understand the benefits of structured project
• implementation.
• You love working with all kinds of teams and people. You can bring them together in a smoothly running team.
• You think on your feet, and you recognize the problems in the job that can sometimes deviate from plan, and
• are always able to quickly move to Plan B.
• Nothing gives you more satisfaction than flawless work.
• You believe that technology and processes are great enablers to create efficiencies and improve productivity.

ABOUT US

• VisionSpring increases lifelong earning, learning, safety, and well-being through eyeglasses for people vulnerable to poverty. We believe in the wonder of clear vision for everybody.
• We sell and deliver radically affordable optical products and services and develop markets for eyeglasses—a 700-year-old technology that has failed to reach 1 billion people in need of vision correction, most of whom live on less than $4 a day.

• We serve low-income consumers, not as beneficiaries but as customers. Our customers expect quality, affordable products and eyecare services, and will spend limited discretionary income for the immediate and tangible benefits of vision correction.
• As a social enterprise, we are purpose first. We blend philanthropic and earned revenue, draw on non-profit and business practices, and use sales and efficiency metrics and social impact measures to bring vision correction to ever more people.
• We catalyze collaborative action in an expansive, multisector partner network and use our evidence and experience to influence systems change and close the global clear vision gap.
• We believe in scaling our impact, not our organization. We are a lean team of doers.
• Our big goal: Everyone who needs eyeglasses will have them by 2050.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Project Management

• Build a scalable and sustainable business model for selling reading eyeglasses in pharmacy stores in Kano.
• Drive execution and work closely with all cross-functional team members, partners, distributors and vendors to co-ordinate multiple workstreams and drive closure on action items.
• Present status to leadership team including execution, budget adherence and risks, in a standard format at regular intervals.
• Travel to various locations – pharmacies, referral hospitals and outreach camps as needed to implement project.
• Work closely with Supply Chain and Logistics teams to ensure product and other equipment are available on site as required for project. Develop a plan for reusable assets.
• Working closely with Program manager and Optometrists, develop a service operations plan including delivery of service and collection of data.
• Working with the Monitoring and Evaluation team, develop and maintain the Key Performance Indicators as required for the project.
• Propose innovations based on data and evidence gathered.

Operations

• Develop and map assigned territory by selecting the right pharmacy clusters.
• Identify and on-board new retail pharmacy and ensure product lifting to pharmacies.
• Product requisition collection from distributor and ensure product supply in time.
• Ensure marketing collateral displayed at visible place of a retail.
• Regular visit and market development
• Monitor distributor staffs’ daily activities.
• Prepare regular sales reporting, analysing, and solving territory operational issues.
• Provide sales projection SKU wise on quarter basis.

• Engagement with country lead identify opportunities for new business, plan retail training, build sustainable.
• trade relationship with channel partners and establish control over trade.
• Liaise with supply chain officer to ensure delivery to pharmacies, and per demand of pharmacy.
• Ensure product display at pharmacy and proper execution of POSM (point of sale materials)

Financials

• Work closely with Global Program Manager, Country Manager and African Director in preparation of the budget for new projects. Develop budget forecasting models and track variance to the budget.
• Ensure project budget are tightly monitored. Keep track of staffing requirements and ensure that project is level loaded to optimize labor. Maintain a tracker of project staff cost.
• Monitor philanthropy subsidy and ensure that this subsidy reduces over time for the project.

Training, Marketing and Communications

• Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of field staff through training to improve their skills at regular intervals.
• Ensure that distributors, partners, retailers are trained as required. Working with the Program Manager and Training team, ensure that training content is developed as needed for the project.
• Working with marketing teams, ensure that all collateral and marketing material is available for the project at all points of distribution, retail, or service camps.
• Gather customer and user stories that can be shared across the VisionSpring network of donors and partners.

Overall support

• Help Managers and Country Leaders develop new project proposals in standard format for approval by the
• leadership team.
• Take charge of all on-going and upcoming VisionSpring projects and apply project management discipline to
• deliver them on time, on budget and with quality.

WHAT’S REQUIRED

• Bachelor’s degree or Higher National Diploma.
• 5 to 7 years of professional experience
• Planning and analytical skills

• Distributor experience is a plus.
• Negotiation skills
• Demonstrated project management experience.
• Demonstrated financial or budget management experience. Must reside in Northern Nigeria, with knowledge of the local market dynamics and experience working with local stakeholders.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English, and other local languages common in the northern Nigeria.
• Computer software skills, especially Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

COMPENSATION

• Salary range will be disclosed to candidates invited for a preliminary interview.

TO APPLY

• We want to know more than just what you have done. We want to know who you are. What are the passions and talents that draw you to this role?
• Please update your CV/résumé to include a phrase or sentence describing the business of each organization where you have worked. Applications without this information are disadvantaged in the process.
• Please submit a complete application, including a thoughtful cover letter, campaign portforlio, and CV/résumé.
• Please note, only candidates invited to interview will be contacted.
• At VisionSpring, diversity, equity, and inclusion are directly aligned with our core value to advance equity. Our mission is predicated on removing a fundamental barrier to full economic and social participation—uncorrected blurry vision. The values that underpin our mission energize our commitment to a diverse and inclusive team. A diverse team also allows VisionSpring to approach problems with nuance and develop unique insights that drive an outsized positive impact in the world. We actively recruit, develop, and retain talented people from diverse backgrounds and support everyone in being exactly who they are.
• VisionSpring is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes people from all experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply.