Business Advisor at PharmAccess Group

Job Positioning

The Business Advisor will be employed on behalf of the MCF by PharmAccess Foundation Kenya and be stationed at its office in Nairobi. The Business Advisor is expected to travel extensively in the country.

At the request of MCF, the Business advisor may be temporarily stationed in other countries in the region with the purpose of setting up MCF data mining and customer sourcing similar to the Nairobi practice.

The Business Advisor forms part of the MCF Team at the Nairobi office and will expectedly frequently liaise with MCF teams elsewhere in the continent as well as with the other teams at the Nairobi office

Reporting Relationships: jobs that report to this position directly and indirectly

Direct Reports

None

Indirect Reports

None

 

Stakeholder Management: key stakeholders that the position holder will need to liaise/work with to be successful in this role.

Internal

• Credit Analysis
• SafeCare
• Digital Lending
• Credit Administration

External

• Health SMEs
• Other stakeholders

Decision Making Authority /Mandates/Constraints: the decisions the position holder is empowered to make (Indicate if it is Operational, Managerial or Strategic). Please also highlight any budgetary control responsibility if applicable for the role. 

The Business Advisor might be added other roles by the Director MCF or Country Director-PharmAccess on a need basis

Ideal Job Specifications

Academic:

1. Essential: BSc Business Administration, Finance, Entrepreneurship or equivalent.
2. Desirable: MBA or post graduate qualification in Finance, Management, Accounting, Microfinance or Management.
3. Professional Qualification CPA, ACCA, Credit Management will be an added advantage

Professional:

Credit skills and Knowledge of Health SME products and policies is an added advantage 

Desired work experience:

3-4 years’ experience in sales, customer service and relationship management.

Ideal Job competencies

Technical Competencies

1. Advanced Credit skills and analysis knowledge
2. Great oral and written presentation skills
3. Ability to work well in a team
4. Understanding of Health SMEs

Behavioral Competencies

Professional

• Treats people with dignity, and fairness; gives proper credit to others; stands up for others and their deserving ideas even in the face of resistance or challenge
• Keeps customers up to date and informed, assures and confirms satisfaction and seeks feedback / understands customer issues
• Strong commitment to an output and performance-based working style.
• Decisive.
• Sound in mind.
• Innovative, Initiative and drive.
• Honest, fair and firm.
• Leadership qualities.
• Entrepreneurial mind-set: explorative, hands-on, initiating.
• Excellent team leader: coaching, leading team members.
• Able to work in a context of international performance standards and expectations.
• Work out of office on location a good part of the time.
• Willing to lend a hand and gives advice, offers expertise, and gathers information to assist others

Performance Criteria

• Availability and degree of implementation of plans of action.
• Timeliness and quality of reports.
• Adequacy and appropriateness of reports in terms of needs of users.
• Appropriateness of support to the facilities.
• Completeness of management information system.
• Cost-effectiveness and value addition of programs initiated and implemented.
• Problem resolution rate.
• Ability to appraise and develop subordinates.

Skills

• Excellent business writing and reporting skills
• Financial analytical and planning skills.
• Computer literate, including use of tablets and databases/web applications.
• Display a commitment for health development.
• Organizational skills.
• Communication and interpersonal skills.
• Advocacy and negotiating skills.