Manager - Supply Chain Operations

About the role

Lead the team that keeps healthcare moving. As a Manager, Supply Chain Operations, you'll drive efficient, cost-effective supply chain strategies, optimize inventory and distribution processes, and ensure caregivers have the right supplies at the right time to deliver exceptional patient care.

Responsibilities

• Promotes team building and collaboration
• Hires, trains, mentors and supervises staff
• Motivates and encourages staff to achieve personal, organizational and team goals
• Conducts annual reviews and recognizes accomplishment
• Encourages and provides opportunity for staff development, input and feedback regarding improvement opportunities
• Manages various programs and services, interacting with various departments across the organization
• Monitors performance outcomes and provides reporting on outcomes where applicable
• Serves as liaison with vendors for coordinating bulk and special purchases and supporting product/vendor conversions and other initiatives
• Oversees the generation of tracing reports for vendors
• Oversees value initiatives such as rebate management, food service project management to include cuttings, standardization efforts, micro market development, billing reconciliation, and credit collections
• Oversees various initiatives related to warehouse and central distribution
• Participates in developing strategic plans and operationalizes strategic plans for the assigned supply chain operations areas
• Ensures supply chain departments provide premier customer service to all internal and external customers
• Develops, administers and monitors regional supply chain operations strategies and goals, supporting and ensuring that multi-regional strategies and goals complement organizational objectives and fulfill community needs for quality health care
• Ensures development, implementation and standardization of leading practice supply chain operation processes in logistics, warehousing, procurement, distribution and inventory management across assigned area
• Oversees development of systems and processes to continually improve operational performance
• Creates and maintains an environment to encourage improvement of the quality and scope of supply chain operations service to all internal and external customers across the organization
• Directs and monitors supply chain automation best practices and innovations
• Collaborates to ensure all aspects of supply chain operations are well developed and maintained throughout the supply chain operation to ensure superior customer experience
• Optimizes supply utilization by utilizing internal and external benchmarks, clinical research, and other pertinent data to identify opportunities and implement process improvements
• Develops financial improvement plans to drive efficiencies and cost savings

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience or education. Five years’ experience with demonstrated leadership responsibility.

Qualifications

Preferred skills include healthcare background, prior leadership experience, prior purchasing and/or inventory management, prior experience with SAP, and hands-on management experience.

Physical Requirements

Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs. Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements. Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors. Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc. Frequent keyboard use/data entry. Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping. Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs. Rare climbing.

Benefits

• Paid Parental Leave: one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE)
• Flexible Payment Options: voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday
• Upfront Tuition Coverage: upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members