The Role

The primary purpose of the Project Manager is to ensure the successful planning, execution, and delivery of project DAWN-related elements to ensure the supply of medicines and medical supplies is not interrupted.

This role plays a critical part in coordinating efforts across various stakeholders, managing resources effectively, and ensuring the timely delivery of the transition plans to move Allphar principal stock across warehouses.

Project Planning and Execution: Together with the Key account manager and Allphar supplier, development of the individual project plan for stock movement.
Supply Chain Oversight: Work closely with the operations team to ensure the timely movement of stock to G2 / G1.
Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Identify potential risks to project success and implement strategies to mitigate them, ensuring continuity of supply and adherence to quality standards.
Reporting and Documentation: Prepare regular progress reports, maintain accurate project documentation, and conduct post-project evaluations to derive insights for future improvements.

Key Outcomes

Strategic Thinking: Ability to align project objectives with broader organizational strategies.
Result Orientation: Focused on achieving project goals while maintaining quality standards.
Collaboration: Skilled at fostering collaboration and building strong relationships with diverse stakeholders.
Adaptability: Capacity to adapt to changing circumstances and proactively address emerging challenges.
Ethical Standards: Maintains high ethical standards in all aspects of project management, particularly in humanitarian initiatives.
Internal: Interacts closely with cross-functional teams, including procurement, logistics, finance, and senior management.

Key Skills & Experiences

Project Management Expertise: Proven experience in managing complex projects within the healthcare sector
An Engineering background is a plus, but not a must-have
Supply Chain Knowledge: Strong understanding of supply chain logistics and procurement processes.
Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication abilities, adept at interacting with diverse stakeholders.
Problem-Solving: Ability to analyse challenges, develop solutions, and make data-driven decisions.
Adaptability: Flexible and capable of working in dynamic environments, adjusting strategies as per evolving project needs.
Leadership: Experience in leading and motivating cross-functional teams to achieve project goals.

Uniphar – Who we are

With a workforce of more than 3000 employees spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA, and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and MedTech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines around the world. Uniphar provides outsourced and specialized services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our highly expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Supply Chain, Retail & On Demand, Uniphar Med Tech, and Uniphar Pharma.

Supply Chain & Retail

Supply Chain Services provides both pre-wholesale and wholesale distribution of pharmaceutical, healthcare and animal health products to pharmacies and hospital nationwide. The business supports a diverse customer base through the provision of strong service levels coupled with innovative commercial initiatives. In addition, the business provides services and supports that help independent community pharmacy to compete more effectively in an increasingly difficult environment and runs a network of Uniphar-owned pharmacies under the Life, Allcare, McCauleys and Hickeys symbol brands.

Pharma – On Demand

The On-Demand business is a specialist medical supply business that sources and distributes pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and consumable supplies to healthcare professionals in over 160 countries worldwide. We have offices in Ireland, UK, Europe, USA and New Zealand. The company’s main divisions encompass everything from International Sales through Sales to NGO’s and Charities, Clinical Trials Supply, Imported (Unlicensed Medicines), Sexual Health Supplies, and the storage and distribution of medical products and devices for third parties.

Click here to find out more: About Us - Who we are | Uniphar

Culture at Uniphar

Uniphar is a combination of many businesses each with its own identity, culture, values, and ways of working. Our overarching culture narrative is inclusive of each of these stores. Uniphar lives and breathes four key pillars which unpin and support our culture.

We have a people first approach - we do the right thing. We support entrepreneurial spirit where adaptability, commitment & resilience is embodied in our way of working. We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people. Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.

Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people and as we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become more diverse. This diversity fuels our business and culture.

Sustainability

Sustainability is at the core of what we do and is deeply embedded in our business strategy. We want to contribute positively to the people and the world around us. Running our business in a sustainable way ensures that Uniphar will continue to prosper in the long-term. We are focused on ensuring that each of the five pillars of our sustainability strategy are a fundamental part of our decision-making process.

Project Manager (LDR Support – Allphar) 12 months Fixed Term Contract

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