Sr. Distribution Supervisor

Abbott Laboratories • Roseville, MN

8d • $78,000 - $156,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (± 16 years) or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Minimum 3 years relevant experience
• 3-5 years in Supply Chain, Distribution or Operations
• Experience may include manufacturing or distribution environment

Nice To Haves

• Fork-lift certifications/experience preferred.
• Experience with CAPA and Change control preferred.

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 changes, assesses impact of decisions and actions on own and other areas of the organization.
• Recruits, interviews, and selects candidates to fill current openings.
• Makes day-to-day decisions which demonstrate a basic understanding of the financial business drivers (e.g., ROI, factory costs, cost reductions) and their inter-relationships.
• Adjusts communication style and medium (oral, written, or electronic) to meet the needs of the receiver (direct reports, peers, customers, managers), delivers only important information, uses appropriate level of language and detail for the receiver.
• Shares information with appropriate timeliness, accuracy, and frequency so as to meet the needs of the receiver, distributes background information prior to meetings and conferences, allows adequate response time when making requests and promptly responds to requests for information, keeps parties potentially affected by decisions apprised of events.
• Receives and interprets both verbal and non-verbal messages, confirms understanding of message before responding, asks for help and ideas when appropriate.
• Promotes productivity and morale by treating others with respect and dignity, listening to different points of view, taking ownership and responsibility for own actions, displaying consistency between words and actions, following through on commitments, being available to answer questions, providing positive feedback on individual and team accomplishments, and providing and receiving developmental feedback in a timely and non-threatening manner.
• Raises issues that block the achievement of individual and team performance (e.g., performance and discipline problems), voices opinions and concerns without waiting to be asked, and attempts to establish areas of difference as well as areas of common interest.
• Provides on-the-job guidance, instruction, training, and resources.
• Translates changes in business goals and objectives into the skills, knowledge and experience needed for future work and establishes appropriate development goals.
• Assesses strengths, development needs, and promotability of direct reports and provides feedback, gives input into development plans, provides opportunities for growth and learning, provides career guidance and support.
• Contributes to the creation of the team's mission, objectives, and strategies, accepts team decisions and works toward their implementation.
• Establishes and supports the norms and conditions for a work environment that supports team productivity, draws on the strengths of each team member, seeks input of team members, works cross functionally to resolve issues.
• Identifies talents necessary for team success, ensures all relevant functional areas are represented on the team, recruits team members.
• Recognizes risk relative to procedures and takes appropriate action.
• Quantifies Risk: Identifies and quantify the financial, quality, regulatory, and human considerations associated with decisions.
• Demonstrates awareness of the changing competitive, technological, healthcare, and regulatory environments, and demonstrates a perspective beyond one's own function.
• Utilizes information from seminars, benchmarking, focus groups, etc., to identify trends and generate recommendations for continuous process improvements in such areas as reduced costs, new technologies, and reject rates.
• Understands functional strategy and carries out responsibilities in line with functional priorities.
• Represent the function to other areas of the company and outside the company.
• Maintain GMP's or other compliance requirements, monitor work environment to determine if it complies. Identify and implement cost reductions.
• Provide budget recommendations, perform cost reduction and variance analysis.
• Coordinate day to day activities, crew/schedule work centers, expedite and resolve day-to-day issues.
• May oversee multiple shift operations.
• Raise issues to the appropriate level for resolution.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior