The Opportunity
Living Goods has developed and proven a cost effective, high-impact community health care model using a business-minded focus on innovation, paired with critical public health delivery. To drive replication and scaling by partners, and to evolve the model to continue as a world-class health delivery initiative, we seek an innovative project manager to join our team as the Innovation Manager. This new role will be based in Kampala and will project manage and coordinate with field teams on a range of innovations and experiments designed to drive improvement in health delivery, reductions in costs, or replicability by partners.
The Innovation Manager will work with outside partners to glean best practices, use this to inform project design, develop project plans and KPIs to test innovations, work with the field teams and across other departments (Finance, Procurement, Product) to implement effective pilots, monitor and supervise implementation, analyze and identify learnings, and inform overall operations on innovations that can be scaled.
The ideal candidate is a data-driven, detail-oriented individual with experience managing projects and timelines in a developing country.
Responsibilities:
- Research best practices tied to innovations that will drive replication, scaling, or cost efficiencies through meeting with partners and scanning literature from other project implementers.
- Design projects – work plans, budgets, KPIs – and that can drive replicability, efficiency or greater health impact.
- Project manage key innovation experiments — including coordination with field teams, partners, and other Departments — to ensure effective implementation.
- Provide ongoing support during implementation, with keen attention to insights gained, challenges and rapid adjustments needed to ensure success.
- Review of analytics on an ongoing basis, assessments and recommendations for ongoing improvement and/or roll out.
- Develop insights and case studies on innovations to provide lessons learned from initiatives, which will inform future operations activities for Living Goods and partners.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 3-4 years of project management experience in emerging markets, Africa preferred.
- Strong analytics skills.
- Strong communicator, able to work with multicultural teams.
- Private sector experience in one of the following fields: consumer package goods, health delivery, pharmaceuticals, retail or direct selling/franchising, management consulting.
- University degree required. MBA preferred.
- Ability and comfort to be in the field 50% of time.
Compensation
A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.
What is Living Goods?
Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights. Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in emerging markets, through networks of franchised micro-entrepreneurs who leverage Living Goods’ brand, buying power and mobile marketing tools to deliver vital products at accessible prices to the people who need them most. By combining the best practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising and public health, Living Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to improve the health, and wealth, of underserved communities.
Living Goods has been featured in The New York Times, NBC News, The Economist, and The Huffington Post. Check out these articles and more on our press page.
Life at Living Goods
Living Goods is aiming to make disruptive changes, dramatically improving the lives of underserved communities. We think big, but we operate small and nimble. At Living Goods, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day. If you work well in a dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if you set high standards for yourself and your colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn fast, if you meet challenges with calm determination and a sense of humor, you will thrive at Living Goods.
More Information
- Job City Kampala
