Lawrence Ekeocha Email & Phone Number

Eston, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

• Supply Chain Management
• Leads on international procurement and freight for mass campaign commodities.
• Support with quantification, procurement planning and monitoring, national and international freight planning, commodity storage, monitoring and stock reconciliation
• Setup, manage and coordinate mass campaign national Supply Chain reviews to enable adaptive learning that continually improves supply chain quality and cost-effectiveness
• Supports MC Country offices planning, sourcing, storing and delivering the right quality products on time and at value for money for its SMC mass campaigns
• Ensure all required batch testing (Quality Control) for international shipments is planned for and completed to the right standard in sufficient timeStrategic Procurement advisory/Implementation

• Strategic and operational Procurement(Bid solicitation, bid opening, analysis & evaluation, Market survey tools {RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs}, contract management, vendor database revalidation, procurement plan development.
• Warehousing/storage and distribution; coordination and harmonization of warehousing and storage of health & non-health commodities in peripheral hubs before long-haulage & last mile movement to designated health.
• LMIS/Targeted Inventory monitoring system; use open-source platforms to gain real-time visibility of health commodities and consumables consumption trend to prevent over-stocking that may lead to expiries while.
• Port clearance of imported health & non-health products: Inter-phased with third party agents to move in-country imported procured commodities from manufacturers to service delivery points to prevent demurrage at sea.
• Backstopping, Monitoring, Evaluation & Supervision-of Satellite health facilities (primary health care, health post etc. on providing technical support on pharmacy best practice updates, laboratory technology &.
• Quantification-Forecasting & Supply planning; using QuantB to generate assumptions based on verified data to do quantification of health products with seasonal or staggered ordering based on client burden or.

Nigeria

• Procurement Process OversightAssist in checking and approving procurement paperwork prepared by relevant procurement staff including procedures for internal controls and systems of accountability.Ensure all suppliers.
• Spearheading the strategic design and implementation of all SCMS activities involving ARV, TB, Lab & cold chain commodities utilization under the CaTSS project in the 54 PEPFAR supported HFs
• Member of the state project management team that is responsible for overall project implementation and performance at the field level involving forecasting, quantification, warehousing, distribution & inventory.
• Provide guidance to a multi-disciplinary team of service providers on Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRs) real time monitoring, documentation, and reporting (monthly and quarterly)
• Report monthly/bi-monthly state medical warehouse and facility level stock position to thematic technical lead
• Working closely with the Senior Technical Manager to coach and mentor service providers and state government partners to strengthen the SCMS capacity at the state level

 Conduct routine monitoring visits to health facilities to provide technical support and capacity building for staff of the facilities. Monitor and support the implementation of an effective Inventory Management System for commodities (including ARVs and Ols drugs, RTKs, Lab reagents & consumables) at the health facilities. Follow up with facility focal.

• Annual activity planning, development, and implementation in line with organization’s specification.
• Logistics Management Information Systems strengthening and procurement order/inventory audit and assessment.
• Verification, scrutiny and data clean-up for analysis, communication, and decision-making.
• Regular field visits to communities to interview, collect and collate data report findings.
• Facilitate regular implementation of review meetings with stakeholders and CSO’s.
• Bi-annual & quarterly inventory control management, reporting, review of lessons learned.

• Provides leadership assistance in all aspect of monitoring, evaluation & information management of the program
• Contributes to program planning to ensure adherence to PACFAH/PSN standard and international best practices, including the use standardized indicators and documentation methodologies.
• Partly responsible (as a team) for cross-cutting programmatic information management within the framework of the program monitoring& evaluation, ensuring that information collected is reflected upon, used for.
• Provides technical assistance via strict supervision in leading research effort among CSO’s, networking with research agencies, documenting project impact while assisting M & E support staff.
• Assist in establishment of a database to track progress rate towards meeting project goals and objectives while addressing shortfalls, M& E and information management that affect program implementation.
• Partnering in strengthening advocacy communication and civic engagement M & E unit to guide process of ex-ante, ex-post and midterm evaluation via design, implementation, and documentation.

Msc., Health Economics, Merit

Mcips, Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions And Contracts Management

Postgraduate Diploma, Global Procurement & Supply Chain Management

Doctor Of Pharmacy - Pharmd, Pharmacy

Bachelor Of Pharmacy - Bpharm, Pharmacy