About Maisha Meds

Maisha Meds is an organization dedicated to improving health care in Africa through best-in-class technology.

Founded in 2017, Maisha Meds has created the largest digital network of private pharmacies and clinics across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, and Zambia through our mobile software. Our platform not only helps these providers improve their business by making sales, managing inventory, and tracking patients. It also reimburses them for providing high-quality care for malaria, family planning, and HIV prevention at discounted costs.

Maisha Meds logs over 24 million patient visits every year and has provided over one million patient reimbursements to date. We harness data from our network of pharmacies and clinics to reveal health and market trends, which allows us to design better solutions that work for the people we serve. We have worked with leading academic institutions such as UC Berkeley, Emory University, and KEMRI to evaluate the effectiveness of our programs. Research shows that our system is able to significantly increase the uptake of long-acting contraceptives and appropriate malaria case management.

Our work is funded by a range of partners, including scale-up funding from USAID Development Innovation Ventures and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This will help Maisha Meds greatly expand its mobile software to 7,500 total pharmacies and clinics by late 2026, delivering subsidized care to several million new patients in the process.

About the Role

Maisha Meds has ongoing engagements to support the data needs for several new contracts that are closing shortly with UNITAID, USTDA, and the World Bank to provide data back to them on private sector consumption habits of over 25 million patient encounters yearly.

The organization is looking for an enthusiastic engagement manager who can independently deliver on and oversee projects in partnership with our excellent data consulting team.

The role would include identifying the right types of analyses to be done, building the analyses and dashboards, developing reports and other deliverables for our clients, and engaging with the data team to support building a streamlined data product from these individual sets of analysis.

This role is a good growth opportunity for a senior researcher, management consultant, or data scientist seeking to move into the global health field, or someone with a pharmaceutical or healthcare background looking to hone their analytics skills.

This role would be hired contingent on signing of two or more of the contracts listed above, and would be time-limited to the duration of the consulting engagement.

Responsibilities

Lead data analysis and dashboard development:

• Independently deliver on creating visualizations in BI tool (Looker) using best practice tools and quality code to provide ongoing visibility of health and commodity consumption trends
• Oversee analysis of trends and come up with interesting findings in our data
• Begin to understand how stakeholders interact with and use our data to refine the dashboards to meet their needs

Develop externally-facing reports and presentations:

• Write interim and final reports summarizing trends and insights from data analysis activities outlined above
• Prepare presentations, policy memos, and blog posts to share these data insights with an external audience
• Support business development activities as needed and perform desk research and literature reviews of public health topics

Support business development strategy and lead engagements:

• Work with external stakeholders and clients to understand their ongoing data insight needs and scope out comprehensive approaches to building dashboards
• Develop a pipeline of potential customers and work with others on the team to begin to engage manufacturers, policymakers, and other key stakeholders to build our data systems into their regular workflows
• Capture feedback and provide product specs and overviews of analyses needed to data team to productise our data offering
  
  

Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in quantitative analysis and project management
• Masters preferred in field of Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Science and Public Health;
• Strong Excel / spreadsheet skills: lookup, logical, and text formulas, pivot tables, data functions etc.
• Product management to understand data usability and applicability of data analyses and adapt the presentation to the needs of users
• Require experience with common data analysis tools including SQL and/or Python is preferred; or experience with similar tools and enthusiasm to develop these skills
• Prior experience leading development of deliverables and reports for global health funders or other external stakeholders
• Excellent attention to detail
• Experience working with messy data sets and joining data from different sources
• Independent initiative and problem solving skills – figuring out what people are interested in seeing in our data and how to meet these needs
• Knowledge around pharmaceutical or health care products is a strong asset
• Good cross-cultural communication skills and enjoy working with a diverse team
• Excited about the potential to improve healthcare access using data!
  
  

Why You Should Join Us

• On a roll: We are doubling year-over-year with new funding partnerships that are boosting expansion in multiple countries
• Great team: We are founded, managed, and backed by successful veterans of Stanford School of Medicine, IQVIA, Google, Safe Boda, and BCG, and Helium Health. We have technologists, doctors, and economists working side by side to solve difficult problems.
• Great funders: We’re supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Development Innovation Ventures, CIFF, WHO, and Pfizer to pay for healthcare on behalf of patients, with others to be announced soon.
• Huge market: We are 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 the best quality care.
• Great customers: We create financial incentives that ensure our health care providers deliver excellent care.
• Impact: We have cultivated a fun and exciting start-up culture that empowers its talented staff to make a huge impact.