Manager, Warehousing & Inventory

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Manager, Warehousing & Inventory

San Diego, CA

About Abbott  

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career of your dreams.

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for, as well as the best place to work for diverse, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our San Diego, CA location in the Cardiometabolic and Informatics Division. This role is officed based 5 days a week. Our Rapid Diagnostics solutions are helping to address some of the world’s most significant healthcare challenges.  

As the Manager, Warehousing & Inventory, you’ll have the chance to oversee all aspects of inventory in a distribution center/local warehouse environment, which may include some or all of the following activities: Shipping, Receiving, Finished Goods Inventory Management, Component Inventory Management, Final Pack and associated logistics ensuring a safe working environment.

What You’ll Work On

• Manage flow of inventory within the distribution center/warehouse to support efficiencies, quality system compliance and customer delivery dates.

• Evaluates warehousing processes and systems, makes recommendations for improvements, manages the implementation of approved process, and systems changes to improve productivity, reduce expenses, and improve margins.

• Applies continuous improvement tools to identify and eliminate the root causes of issues that may arise within the warehouse, including managing corrective action(s) to mitigate reoccurrence.

• Provides leadership by assigning goals that align to entity’s annual plans and department needs then manage the team to execute goals through coaching and mentoring.

• Establish a culture of accountability and compliance.

• Manages all transportation and delivery programs, including routing, courier selection, company driver and fleet management, while minimizing expenses and maintaining a high level of customer service and responsiveness.

• Manages workforce planning, including short-term staffing needs to support weekly business commitments.

• Responsible for all matters related to warehouse safety and security, including evaluating and implementing appropriate safeguards necessary to protect the welfare of the employees and the company.

• Maintains physical facilities, including the evaluation and procurement of material handling equipment and other building maintenance, upgrades and repairs as necessary.

• Creates and maintains departmental reports, as required to facilitate operations.

• Safeguard warehouse operations and contents by establishing and monitoring security procedures and protocols.

• Controls inventory levels by conducting physical counts and reconciling with data storage system.

• Hires and retains a diverse, highly qualified staff.

• On an annual basis, establish the functional goals for area of responsibility with Manager. Update and review progress against goals on a semi-annual basis and conduct annual performance reviews/appraisals and development plans for dir