Chief Strategy Officer at Maisha Meds

Qualifications

We are seeking exceptional professionals with 8+ years of senior management experience in a fast-growing organization and deep health sector experience. Our ideal candidate will have the following:

• Deep passion for healthcare delivery and strong alignment with our vision and mission
• Record of building funding partnerships and innovative finance models with governments, multilateral funders, and private foundations
• Experience and comfort owning a P&L and strategy for profitable pharma business units
• Creativity with strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Record of impactful thought leadership and advocacy to improve healthcare delivery
• Experience in a fast-paced entrepreneurial setting and/or in management consulting
• Humility and personal stability. We are looking for passionate professionals that combine strong leadership skills with humor and patience
• Interest in serving as inspiring leader in a dynamic, multicultural, and values-based environment
• Advanced degree (Master’s or Doctoral), preferably in public policy, economics, public administration, business, medicine, or public health.

We would prefer to have you based in East Africa, but are also open to Washington DC or London as well.

Tell Me More About Maisha Meds

• On a roll: Doubling year over year with new funding partnerships soon to be announced and recent expansion into Uganda, Nigeria, and Ethiopia
• Great team: Founded, managed and backed by successful veterans of Stanford School of Medicine, Google, mPharma, I&M Bank. We have technologists, clinicians, and economists working side by side to solve difficult problems.
• Great funders: We’re backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID Development Innovation Ventures, CIFF, WHO FIND, and Pfizer to pay for healthcare on behalf of patients, with others to be announced soon.
• Huge market: Disrupting a massive, growing $50+ billion market for healthcare payments for low-income patients, with a focus on paying for health outcomes to ensure patients get better.
• Great customers: Create incentives that ensure our nurses, pharmacists, and clinicians provide excellent care and pay them when this happens.
• Impact: A fun and exciting start-up culture that empowers its people to make a huge impact.