RECRUITMENT NOTICE

PHAMACY MANAGER

INTERNAL & EXTERNAL

CONTEXT 

Médecins Sans Frontières France is recruiting for its office in Amman a “PHAMACY MANAGER” to support the Palestine Coordination teams of all MSF sections (Belgium, France, Holland, Spain).

CONTEXT: 

Médecins Sans Frontières is a private, non-profit international humanitarian organization dedicated to providing medical assistance to populations in crisis, without discrimination and regardless of race, religion, creed, or political affiliation.

Médecins Sans Frontières is seeking a PHAMACY MANAGER in its Office in Amman, Jordan, to support the Palestine Coordination teams of all MSF sections.

MAIN PURPOSE: 

To support effective operational coordination and quality assurance at field level by facilitating alignment

among Operational Centers (OCs) and between MSF and WHO (World Health Organization) or other agencies supporting MSF with international procurement. The position contributes to maintaining continuity of supply, optimized stock management, and efficient communication between field operations and coordinators. The position harmonizes the management of pharmacy related issues and serves as MSF interface in front of MoH for major discussions that may involve all OCs.

Pharma focal point and support at field level, for stock coordination among OCs in close collaboration with

intersectional Supply Coordinator, Medical Coordinators and Mission pharmacy Manager for each OC.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:  

·         Being the pharmacy focal point and contact for all the topics related to WHO or any other external partner concerning international medical supply in close collaboration with the mission intersectional supply, pharmacy, and medical coordination.

·         Coordinating stock management between Operational Centers (OCs) to ensure optimal availability, redistribution, and visibility of supplies across OCs, while streamlining intersectional international requests through WHO and other partners.

·          Coordinating between Operational Centers on the needs in accordance with their stock level and FMC to ensure a rational and proportional distribution between OCs of the quantity received through WHO or any other partner supporting MSF in international procurement, in case the quantities received are not the ones requested.

·         Coordinating between Operational Centers to standardize the ordering process by defining the different parameters and creating an order file to compile and forecast the total needs, for WHO orders and for local purchase in Jerusalem or others.

·         Facilitating communication and information flow between different OC’s pharmacy teams to ensure adherence to procedures, standards, and shared tools.

·         Collaborate with intersectional supply to establish chronograms for WHO and local purchase ordering process and follow up.

·         Ensuring that all sections implement the same ordering tools for requesting items through partners supporting international procurement for MSF and follow their correct completion.

·         Ensuring consolidated reception feedback with the supply team to update order tracking and financial follow-up.

·         Coordinating regular meetings with the Pharmacists / Medical coordinators / Supply coordinators, where information concerning international supply through partners is exchanged and problems shared to find common solutions.

·         Ensuring the correct follow-up of the pipeline and backorders with the support of the intersectional supply team and WHO or any other partner supporting international procurement for MSF.

·         Developing an intersectional medical standard list for WHO orders to cover all the OC’s needs of the medical

·         activities in Gaza by standardizing and merging the codes between MSF and WHO and finding and proposing

·         the most suitable alternatives if needed.

·         Upon receipt of WHO order, check the reception against the request to ensure proper validation for any replacement items or changes.

·         Ensuring a proper reporting system for the different pharmacy coordinators/mission pharmacy managers and medical coordinators to have the common validation before proceeding with any new implementation, order or split of stock after receiving it in Gaza.

·         Coordinate between sections to have a harmonized management system of pharma related topics inside Gaza (narcotics, shelf-life extension, expired destruction, etc.)

·         Oversees donations requests from partners in Gaza to facilitate rational support according to each OC’s stock and expiration dates.

·         Represent MSF in front of MoH for discussion/negotiations of agreements/policies/standards of general interests.

·         Harmonize exceptional validations to rationalize efforts.

·         Oversees stocks to facilitate rational consumption avoiding ruptures and waste. Sections will report overstock and sleeping stock to this position to facilitate this process.

·         Maintains all teams well informed of achievements, processes, negotiations ongoing.

REQUIREMENTS: 

WORK LOCATION:      Amman - Jordan  

CONTRACT:                  Fixed Term (6 months renewable, including a probation period)

Interested applicants must (1) submit their application in English, containing a Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a copy of their bachelor’s in pharmacy, and (2) provide details about their profile through this link [https://tally.so/r/aOO0Ry]. Please submit your application no later than 6 November 2026   

MSF promotes the inclusion of women and people with disabilities

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted via email

Notice: No monetary transactions, no demands for favors in kind, nor other types of favoritism will be tolerated in the recruitment process.  MSF reserves the right to refuse the hiring of a candidate who has benefited from such acts. All such illicit demands may be pursued through the judicial system.