Logistics Project Specialist

Use Your Power for Purpose

Whether you are involved in the design and development of logistics processes for products or supporting maintenance and reliability, our supply chain is vital to making sure customers and patients have the medicines they need, when they need them. Working with our innovative Logistics project team, you'll help bring medicines to the world even faster by imagining what’s possible and taking action.

What You Will Achieve

Working with Pfizer’s dynamic Kalamazoo Logistics team, you will play a critical part in providing technical and business support to the Logistics team on a variety of tasks. Your documentation, organization, and project management skills will come in handy to prepare reports, training documentation, proposals, and drawings.

As a specialist, your focus on the job will contribute to achieving project tasks and goals. Through your domain knowledge and commitment, you will create a collaborative team environment for your colleagues.

It is your dedication and hard work that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve it.

The position is respnsible for providing project, continuous improvement, financial, safety, inventory, training, asset management, and organizational support to the Logistics team. The Logistics Project Specialist must work well in supporting the entire team and ensure they understand team roles and responsibilities, project deliverables, and related dependencies. Primary accountabilities are to provide project support, deliverable administration and execution, PO management, training development administration, as well as supporting and improving Logistics processes. The support accountabilities include timely and accurate responses to a wide variety of requests. Interact with Logistics team members, management, and other peer enabling groups to establish and maintain requirements for assigned project support.

Logistics Project Life Cycle Management

• Manage full life cycle of all projects big and small – expense or capital

• Capture and document projects and vet through standard processes to identify best path forward

• Assist with the development and routing of project requests

• Shepherd approvals through all systems, escalating issues as they arise for support by leadership

• Initiate purchase orders, change orders, and closures

• Initiate work orders for assigned projects and ensure timely completion per project goals

• Work closely with all suppliers, vendors, and Procurement on all purchases

• Expedite POs and purchases as needed

• Initiate and maintain vendor qualification documentation

• Work with our team and vendors to ensure timely deliveries and address any possible delays that may impact project schedule

Project Reports

• Provide Logistics managers with an accurate assessment of a project’s status and spending forecasts, project fund dates, project closure dates, and other critical project information

• Support and manage cost controls for the broader team including area, driver, project manager, and other key site forecasts

• Support, develop, and create spreadsheets and presentations to support internal reporting

• Ensure complete, accurate and timely reporting of project status

• Develop meeting agendas and presentations to support Logistics leadership

Logistics Business Process Systems

• Administer Logistics’ project SharePoint sites

• Maintain all forms and files for Logistics projects

• Active participation on various departmental improvement, safety, training, and efficiency initiatives

• Identify suggested areas of improvement and support execution of improvements

Communications

• Communicate in a timely fashion on all issues with a potential impact on projects relative to budget available, commitments, forecasted spend, risks, and known and unknown scope changes

• Ensure frequent and effective communication between all stakeholders

• Facilitate meetings as needed

Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

• Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with 0+ years of experience; OR an associate's degree with 4 years of experience; OR a high school diploma (or equivalent) and 6 years of relevant experience

Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)

• Experience preferred with project management, logistics operations, pharmaceutical manufacturing systems or other manufacturing and logistics supporting roles.

• Experience in the Pharmaceutical or