Sr. Distribution Supervisor

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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 which you dream.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

Main Purpose of the Role

Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system. Manage the direct activities of an area within a department or function, including Inventory Control, Repack and Kitting activities. Provides direct supervision to professional, direct or indirect labor staff. Ensure that plans are implemented and milestones are achieved. Direct the activities of staff to achieve objectives at lowest cost.

Main Responsibilities

• Gather and prepare trend information and recommend areas of focus.
• Assist in the preparation of the financial plan, gather financial and other data to support the plan.
• Assist in the development of the capital plan by identifying projects to improve processes, reduce costs, and maintain operations.
• Sets standards and monitors staff performance, provides performance feedback, writes appraisals for employees, recommends merit increases and promotions, deliver rewards and sanctions.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance.
• Understands detailed area operations (function specific), including repack and kitting work order management, cycle counting, and monthly scrap processes and review.
• Regularly make decisions which impact quality, delivery or cost.  Manages assigned projects and works cross functionally to identify changes and necessary resources.
• Develop and recommend departmental reward and recognition programs.
• Assist employees in the creation of development plans and work with employees to meet their development needs.
• Communicate department objectives and results.
• Uses time effectively, both for self and others.
• Coach teams and provide guidance, direction, training, resources, and time.
• Direct supervision of workforce.
• Create a climate of trust and respect within the group. Exchanges information with employees, peers, and management regarding operations.
• Conducts individual discussions with employees, including performance reviews.
• Interviews candidates for positions on the direct staff.
• Interact with peers in operations and within other cross-functional groups.
• Responds directly to requests for information from internal and external regulatory agencies.
• Makes plans to accomplish assigned activities and projects, establishes priorities to handle competing demands, optimizes use of available resources, estimates time and resources necessary to complete tasks or projects, and establishes follow up systems.
• Tracks and reviews daily indices (e.g., line outputs, labor efficiency, reject rates) and regulatory requirements to identity gaps between current and desired performance, applies standard problem solving tools (e.g., fishbone diagrams, Pareto analysis), recommends and implements corrective action so that the impact of the problem is minimized, and interfaces with other areas to identify and solve problems.
• Collects, analyzes, and transmits financial and technical data and information, forecasts future performance based on history and environmental chang