Global Health Advisory - Associate (12 Month Fixed Term Contract - West Africa)

Our Vision:

We believe in a world where everyone, regardless of their country’s wealth or frontiers, enjoys access to medicines and healthcare when they need it.

Our Mission:

We work tirelessly to remove access barriers faced by patients and caregivers across Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) when seeking quality medicines and quality healthcare.

Who We Are: Accelerating access to medicines for all

Imagine a world where critical medicines are within reach, affordable, and synonymous with quality, no matter where you are. That is the world we're building with our unique, demand-aggregation model that unites healthcare providers across LMICs. At the heart of our identity is a single, resolute commitment: to build a future where geography and income never stand between any individual and life-saving medicines. Our platform isn't merely a space for transactions, we unlock affordable access to medicines by aggregating demand across healthcare providers. We also help manufacturers build a sustainable and reliable global access strategy.

Our business focuses on low- and middle-income countries and strengthens the purchasing power of these markets to ensure the supply of cost-effective, high-quality medicines. We partner exclusively with authorized, high-quality pharmaceutical companies and certified caregivers to accelerate sustainable access to medicines.

Axmed Global Health Advisory is the access-focused advisory arm of Axmed, a social impact company dedicated to improving access to medicines across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). As a specialized advisory firm, Axmed Global Health Advisory partners with private sector, global health organizations, and industry stakeholders to develop and implement market access strategies, innovative financing models, and go-to-market solutions tailored to LMIC healthcare systems.

About the Position

Axmed is seeking a driven, analytically strong Associate to support the design of a scalable private-sector market activation model for family planning products in Francophone West Africa, with a focus on Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire. This 12-month contract role sits within Axmed’s Global Health Advisory team and plays a central role in shaping how affordable, quality family planning products can be delivered sustainably through private pharmacies.

This is a hands-on, execution-oriented role combining rigorous analysis with direct engagement of manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, and other market actors. The Associate will help translate fragmented market data and stakeholder input into a coherent, execution-ready blueprint for pooled procurement, digital integration, and demand activation. The role requires comfort operating in ambiguity, strong ownership of workstreams, and the ability to engage credibly with external stakeholders in French and English.

The successful candidate will work closely with senior team members while independently owning core analytical and engagement work packages. This role is ideal for someone motivated by practical market-shaping work and real-world impact in low- and middle-income country health systems.

Key Responsibilities

Market & Supplier Analysis

• Lead structured mapping of family planning manufacturers, importers, and distributors across priority product categories
• Develop detailed cost-stack analyses (ex-works to pharmacy shelf) to identify pricing drivers and opportunities for affordability gains
• Build volume-based pricing scenarios, demand forecasts, and commercial models to support supplier engagement and pooled procurement design
• Synthesize market intelligence into clear, decision-ready insights for internal and external stakeholders

Pharmacy Channel & Market Design

• Support mapping and segmentation of private pharmacy ecosystems in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire
• Contribute to the design of pharmacy readiness criteria, onboarding pathways, and activation models
• Support development of digital ordering, aggregation, and data-capture workflows in collaboration with technical colleagues
• Translate pharmacy engagement insights into operational and commercial design inputs

Stakeholder & Client Engagement

• Engage directly with manufacturers, distributors, and private pharmacies through interviews, workshops, and in-country meetings
• Support preparation and facilitation of stakeholder consultations, roundtables, and validation sessions
• Represent the project team in selected external engagements, particularly in Francophone contexts
• Convert stakeholder input into structured analysis and practical recommendations

Project Delivery & Team Contribution

• Own defined analytical and engagement workstreams within broader project plans
• Manage day-to