[Hiring] Vice President, Global Product Partnerships @AmeriCares

Role Description

The Vice President, Global Product Partnerships sits on the Medicine Security Leadership Team and serves as the strategic leader responsible for shaping and executing Americares global product access and sourcing strategy. This role will help lead the evolution of Medicine Security from a model built predominantly on ad-hoc Gift-in-Kind (GIK) donations toward one that is more diversified, resilient, and predictable.

As the organization's primary external voice on product supply, this position is responsible for building and stewarding relationships with:

• Pharmaceutical manufacturers
• Medical supply companies
• Distributors
• Wholesalers
• Foundations
• Other industry partners

The VP oversees Americares significant GIK portfolio, its Patient Assistance Programs, and a future state sourcing and procurement function, setting the forward strategy to expand and diversify our global donor and supplier network while opening new channels for product access.

This work strengthens supply chain resilience, sharpens alignment with documented patient needs, and expands Americares strategic relevance in a rapidly changing global health ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Deep familiarity with the inner workings of pharmaceutical companies.
• Deep understanding of market dynamics and go-to-market strategy.
• Strong grounding in global public health.
• Exceptional strategic thinking and long-term planning ability.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Collaborative leadership style.
• Experience building and leading distributed teams.

Requirements

• Ability to build forward visibility across multiple supply channels.
• Comfort in quantitative analysis and utilizing data to inform priorities.
• Sound regulatory and compliance judgement.

Benefits

• Full-time; exempt position.
• Remote work opportunities in specified locations.
• Travel required: Up to 20%; domestic and international.
• Hiring range: $184,457 to $202,700 USD.

Company Description

Americares is a global health and disaster relief organization that helps people and communities around the world access health in times of disaster and every day. Each year, Americares reaches 85 countries on average, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine, medical supplies, and emergency aid.

• We create global community, treating people as they want to be treated.
• We respond effectively and responsibly, putting plans into practice.
• We embed ethics and equity in our work and workplace.
• We are better together; partnership is at our core.
• We ask and listen, to create sustainable solutions for a healthier tomorrow.
• We commit to quality, growing and improving to ensure individuals and communities thrive.