Shipping/Receiving Associate (Pharmaceutical Distribution)(ENTRY LEVEL)

Valley Forge Pharma•Malvern, PA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

We're looking for someone who can be our Shipping/Receiving Associate for our new pharmaceutical distribution facility. The ideal candidate will either know or be willing to learn: drug storage, shipping, recordkeeping, suspicious orders/diversion concerns, returns, recalls, record retention, and regulatory compliance. Candidate will be involved in repackaging activities as well. Candidate must have a clean professional/regulatory background and be capable of supporting NABP accreditation and state licensing activities. This is due to the fact that you will likely need to take trainings and then tests to become accredited as our secondary/back up Designated Representative (Pharmaceutical Distribution). As a Shipping/Receiving Associate, you will be responsible for executing the shipment schedule and daily shipping/receiving activities. You will be tasked with verifying and keeping records on incoming and outgoing shipments. Other responsibilities include comparing identifying information, counts, weighs, or measures items of incoming and outgoing shipments to verify information against bills of lading, invoices orders, and other records.

Requirements

Willing to take the Designated Representative test for each state as required to serve as our backup Designated Representative
Clean professional/regulatory background

Nice To Haves

Preference for shipping/logistics experience in pharmaceutical distribution, wholesale distribution, or pharmacy operations

Responsibilities

Follows up daily incoming receiving, makes sure received goods are received in timely manner
Maintains daily receiving and inventory log
Prepares packing slip and other shipping documents for outgoing shipments
Reports any of discrepancy to the supervisor
Follows up shipping schedule and requests. Verifies if shipments are shipped on time.
Ensures the timely delivery of materials at the most economical cost, consistent with quality standards, affecting quality by assuring that suspicious material is identified and that material is handled.
Coordinates with shipping carriers, internal customers and external customers.
Responsible for properly and accurately packing and appropriately labeling various types of shipments.
Ensure packing supplies; boxes, packing materials, labels, etc are properly stocked.