The wider Directorate is pivotal to UKHSA's mission, overseeing the comprehensive delivery of commercial, contract management, and business development functions. It manages a vast commercial portfolio, ensuring the agency has the resources to address health security threats. The directorate leads the procurement, storage, and distribution of vaccines and countermeasures for national immunisation and emergency response programmes. It fosters industry partnerships, drives strategic market engagement, and builds supply chain resilience. Additionally, the team is responsible for investment governance, dispute management, and building commercial capabilities. They also develop and execute strategies for income generation, leveraging UKHSA's expertise and facilities to secure funding and commercial opportunities. This role is part of the Vaccines Programmes & Operations department and reports into the Vaccine Programme Operations Lead. This role supports the G7 lead, and SEO, in delivering on a set of immunisation programmes for VCD, taking action on the programme of work to contribute to continued supply of vaccine for those specific programmes. This role will support the procurement and supply activity necessary.,

• Responsible for stock management and supply of vaccines for use in the NHS, across the UK, forecasting and ensuring risks are mitigated by timely actions.
• To assist, ensuring the supply & distribution of vaccines & other medicinal products to the NHS, across the UK and a number of private customers in liaison with various internal and external stakeholders.
• Supporting the development of business cases.
• Manage interface with ImmForm helpdesk to authorise day to day stock management, supply, ordering and supply policy issues.
• Manage NHS facing supply and policy queries (mailbox)
• Support activities with piloting expanded providers, taking the lead to coordinate and monitor their set up and activation.
• To support and feed into correspondence, Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and briefing on vaccine supply.
• Manage the administration of a project/programme with Regular RAID reviews with key stakeholders, attending and recording notes. Maintain the Risk, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies log.
• Support the Governance and Reporting of a project/programme with data gathering from stakeholders to enable reporting and decision making, using standard templates. Maintain the project/programme Actions and Decisions log. Maintain a central repository of current and historic documentation in relation to projects and programmes being supported.
• Support project and project/programme team by facilitating process sharing, meetings, note taking and governance.
  
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