Sr. Supervisor - Warehousing and 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:

Sr. Supervisor - Warehousing and Inventory

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 you dream of.
• 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 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 worldwide 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 diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for treatment and management of diseases and other conditions.

The position of Sr. Supervisor - Warehousing and Inventory is within our Infectious Disease Developed Markets business unit located at Scarborough, Maine.  In this role you will be responsible for supervising a subset of activities within a distribution center/warehouse or supervises a local warehouse where the scope may be smaller than a centralized distribution center. Manages a team of non-exempt employees to accomplish the following: shipping, receiving, inventory control and final packaging for finished goods, components and/or raw materials.

What You’ll Work On

• Manages the implementation of approved process and systems changes geared toward improving productivity, reducing expenses and improving margins.
• Schedules staff to cover site business needs which may include some or all of the following warehouse activities: shipping, receiving, inventory management and/or final packaging.
• Applies continuous improvement tools to identify and eliminate the root causes of issues that may arise within the Warehouse which may include managing corrective action.
• Provide leadership by assigning goals which align to entity annual plans and department needs then manage team to execute goals through coaching and mentoring.
• Develops and reviews various reports and observes warehouse trends to propose staffing needs.
• Audits data to ensure accuracy of warehouse records.
• Ensures teams are following policies to protect their health and safety.
• Controls inventory levels by managing team to physical counts and reconciling with data storage system.
• Hires and retains a diverse, highly qualified staff and provides ongoing performance feedback. Maintains a safe and professional work environment.
• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments.
• Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma.
• 5 years' progressively responsible experience in warehousing.
• 3 years' experience working in highly regulated warehousing environment.
• 3 years' experience working with warehousing software systems.
• Thorough understanding of inventory management, warehouse management and material handling.
• Knowledge of demand planning and vendor management.
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing and supply chain management.
• Proven success in improving work processes, leading change and role models positive behaviors as well as change agent skills