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Médecins Sans Frontières SPINCO Logistics Data-steward Netherlands MSF Jobs 2024

Médecins Sans Frontières looking for “SPINCO Logistics Data-steward”. Applicants with an Advanced degree may apply on or before 22-Jul-24.

The Médecins Sans Frontières has published a job vacancy announcement on 01/07/2024 for qualified applicants to fill in the vacant post of SPINCO Logistics Data-steward to be based in Amsterdam , Netherlands. For more jobs, please visit https://unjoblink.org

Company Name: Médecins Sans Frontières

Job Title: SPINCO Logistics Data-steward

Duty Station: Amsterdam , Netherlands

Country: Netherlands

Application Deadline: 22-Jul-24

Responsibilities: 

1- 1st line support

• First point of contact: receive, flag, answer or forward to the appropriate persons all incoming questions and requests for information, advice or extraction of information from UniData via feedback in UniData, e-mails, phone and/or face-to-face meetings

• The creation and validation of article codes following the codification rules and adaptations on codes or labels in collaboration with data-owners.

• Keeping a good working relation with the data-stewards in the supply centres. Visit all ESCs at least once this year, speak to the data-owners by phone at least once per month.

• Keeping the feedback mechanism in UniData workable: regularly following up on flying feedbacks / feedbacks related to un-valid articles and yearly closing exercise towards the end of the year with logistics UniData users.

2- Safeguarding data quality and maintaining set of codification rules

• Review proposed new codes and labels from SCs or field locations and check if these are compliant with the codification rules

• Propose if needed enhancements to codes, labels or the rules to improve the final result. Set-up inter-ESC meeting with relevant data-owners to improve codes and/or labels of larger group of articles.

• Guide and assist the Data-Owners at the ESC’s with the use of the code & label generator when creating new articles

• Make sure existing codification rules are set-up correctly in the code & label generator including the link between significant parts of the codes and the label blocks

• Review and propose new draft rules for groups of articles if needed to guarantee uniformity

• Enter these rules in UniData including related label blocks in the code & label generator

• Assure that corrections in codes, labels and other attributes are made when needed

• Follow-up with ESC data-owners on issues coming up when they’re applying the rules

• Follow-up on data-quality indicators and checks, such as in the indicator dashboard, comparing UniData attributes with the codification rules (master-file and/or proposed code & label) and propose changes to relevant counterparts and adapt information in UniData accordingly.

3- Respond to the field needs in terms of product assortment

• make the product information available and visible for the MSF field and enquire for the field needs that could be translated in unicat.

• improve and maintain the quality of the information through regular contacts with field missions where there is an agreed regional supply centre or intersectional initiative requesting Spinco assistance

4- Statistics

• Create and share the Monthly log reports with all relevant stakeholders

• Work together with the production team towards the development of the reporting tool and automated report

• Create weekly a report on indicators and follow-up on quality issues

• Create and publish other reports when requested

5- Contribute to improvements

• Continuous improvements in and around UniData may require testing of new features, interfaces and changes in the UniData system and its governance

• Work in collaboration with the production team on improvements in UniData and UniCat

• Share suggestions for improvements with the production (help-desk) team

• Follow-up of other tasks requested by the SPINCO Logistics Referent

• Occasionally replacing the Logistics Referent in meetings.

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