Logistics Digital Product Owner

**LOGISTICS DIGITAL PRODUCT OWNER (BASED IN ANY OCBA HUB)**:

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Full Time
Logistics

**GENERAL CONTEXT OF THE POSITION**

Médecins Sans Frontières is an international independent medical-humanitarian organization, which offers assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict, without discrimination and irrespective of race, religion, creed or political affiliation.

MSF is a civil society initiative that brings together individuals committed to the assistance of other human beings in crisis. As such MSF is by choice an association.
Each individual working with MSF does it out of conviction and is ready to uphold the values and principles of MSF.

The MSF movement is built around six operational directorates. MSF OCBA is one of those directorates. The operations are implemented by field teams and the mission coordination teams; together with the organizational units based in Barcelona and decentralized in Nairobi, Dakar and Amman. The field operations are guided and supported by 5 Operational Cells, the Emergency Unit and other departments supporting operations, including the Logistics Department.

**GENERAL OBJECTIVE**

The Logistics Department aim to develop and promote the use of digital platforms which enable and empower our field logisticians to improve the effectiveness an operational impact of their activities, as well as enhancing the cost/time/resource efficiency, contribute to safety and security and organization accountability. For this, platforms and processes should strength field autonomy, improve data quality allowing quick informed decisions leading to action, be functional and easy to adopt under current field technical constrains and staff capabilities, be as user-friendly and simple as possible, while avoiding unnecessary complexity or duplications, as well as easy to maintain, among others.

The main objective of the Logistics Digital Product Owner is to ensure, jointly with Projects & IT teams, an adequate definition of the strategic digital priorities in the logistics area, and more specifically the digital solutions that will respond to the operational and technical needs of logistics in OCBA, contributing to the digitalization of the Logistics Department.

This position is at the crossroads of many partners with responsibilities in the area of digitalization, and therefore will require close collaboration and alignment with all of them: the Logistics Department, expressing the needs and providing some of the solutions; the Projects & IT Office, as reservoir of expertise and technicians and overall coordination of the digital strategy & offer; and KM & IM, in charge of the knowledge and information management strategy. Finally, s/he will also pursue collaboration with the Medical Department and the Operations Department to ensure alignment of Logistics digital efforts with a transversal field vision.

S/he will be hierarchically accountable to the Head of Operational Logistics.
- Manage and prioritize the strategic and tactical demand on delivery of digital technologies, together with the Head of LogOps and in close collaboration with Projects & IT, according to the Logistics strategic plan and MSF OCBA priorities to ensure that demand is aligned with both.
- Identify areas of improvements in the existing processes of the Logistics Department when monitoring and reviewing them seeking to ensure the continuous improvement of the service and their supporting/reporting solutions

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES, FUNCTIONS AND TASKS**

The Logistics Digital Product Owner will, in close collaboration with the Logistics Department and Projects & IT Office, be responsible for:

- Jointly with key stakeholders and Projects & IT, s/he will contribute to the development of a governance that enables the maximization of the impact of new digital solutions for field logistics (inc. information management). For this purpose, s/he will ensure that the necessary capacity in the logistics department is built.
- In close collaboration with Projects & IT, define the digital strategic ambitions for Logistics department aligned with OCBA digital strategy
- Ensure continuous alignment with Logistics and Projects & IT vision, goals, and prioritized needs.
- Support the logistics department on the definition of technological needs to be delivered by the Projects & IT Office, providing the necessary clarity regarding vision and goals, and supporting effective prioritization of the needs based on this vision and goals, to maximize added value for end-users.
- Effectively contribute towards building strong collaboration between the Logistics Department and Projects & IT Office within the scope of field data collection and information management. This collaboration should provide the maximum added value for our field logisticians, HQ Logs and thereby OCBA.
- Support and collaborate with Project and &IT, being the Logistics Focal Point, in the delivery