Senior Associate, Supply

About the role

The Senior Associate, Warehouse Operations contributes to Cardinal Health's operations by ensuring the integrity, quality, and accuracy of the facility’s inventory. This includes managing product holds, product movements, physical returns, purchasing of products, and maintaining automated tracking of inventory.

Responsibilities

• Maintains inventory accuracy by managing product holds, product movements, physical returns, purchasing of products and automated tracking of inventory.
• Drives efficient picking and replenishment by profiling products to determine the best slotting, based on weights and measures, palette dimensions, frequency of product movement, expiration date, hazardous classifications and other characteristics.
• Continually monitors quality and productivity metrics including damaged product, adjustments, shortages, and cycle counts, among others.
• Communicates with Supervisor and other internal departments on inventory accuracy and quality metrics related to given products or customers.
• Investigates outbound discrepancies by checking for differences between physical counts and WMS records. Identifies and reports variances to Customer Care team and ensures that customers are shipped variances promptly, and documents all variances and issues in line with SOPs.
• Solves inbound discrepancies by initiating communication with external suppliers and coordinating with Quality Assurance teams. Makes necessary adjustments in WMS and determines implications for customer order fulfillment.
• Determines proper resolution of discrepancies and other operational errors to ensure that customer commitments can be fulfilled in scheduled timeframe. Promptly communicates the root cause and resolution to the Supervisor, Manager, and other internal stakeholders as necessary to minimize future errors.
• Plays a role in placing Purchasing Orders (PO’s) for customers and tracks to ensure on-time deliveries to prevent service disruptions.
• Proactively identifies opportunities to improve operations and mitigate risks in inventory control and broader operations. Provides input into operational excellence initiatives through Supervisor and Manager.
• Serves as a resource to other team members, instructs Associates on complex picking, put-away, and replenishment tasks to maximize inventory accuracy, is flexible to support daily operational needs. May assist in occasional warehouse audits by providing reporting and answering questions related to inventory control procedures, as necessary.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience, preferred
• High School diploma, GED or equivalent, or equivalent work experience, preferred

Pay

$22.50 per hour

Benefits

Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being. These include medical, dental and vision coverage, paid time off plan, health savings account (HSA), 401k savings plan, access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay, flexible spending accounts (FSAs), short- and long-term disability coverage, and work-life resources such as paid parental leave and healthy lifestyle programs.