About Save the Children

In line with Save the Children’s humanitarian public health strategy, we are significantly scaling up our frontline health & nutrition capacity so that many more children’s lives can be saved in emergencies. The nature of the nutrition interventions have significantly evolved in the past 20 years with the development of Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) and the scaling up of the Community Based of acute Malnutrition (CMAM). From simple recipes based on raw ingredients prepared on site, we are now using complex, specially formulated and fortified foods closer to medical supplies than food. This includes a growing range of products manufactured and supplied all over the world and more and more frequently in programmatic countries.

Additional in house expertise is therefore urgently needed to tackle the increasing complexity of food and nutrition products available in the market, align with SCI medical and pharmaceutical procedures, better support nutrition product supply chain in country office and participate in the global effort of norms and standards revision.

About the job

The main objective of the job holder will be to provide technical expertise in specialised food and nutrition product procurement and management, supporting the set-up of a quality assurance system along the supply chain and provide actionable recommendations to improve performance. The job holder will also actively represent Save the Children in external coordination bodies with NGOs, UN and private sector/suppliers

About you

You are an engineer in food processing industry, a pharmacist with agronomic experience or you have a relevant qualification in nutrition, food processing, food quality assurance, supply chain management. Throughout your solid experience in procuring and managing food/nutrition supplied, you have conducted assessment, and quality audits of production manufacturing sites. You have also great knowledge of international standards, rule and regulation related to food , specialised food, and ideally drugs. You have strong planning, management and coordination skills and have the ability to build relationships quickly with a wide range of people, both internally and externally. Flexible, you are willing to be deployed up to 30% of the time.

What we offer in return

In return we offer a competitive salary and benefits.