Warehouse Supervisor

Role Summary

The Warehouse Supervisor oversees Warehouse Associates across multiple shifts. This is a working supervisor role responsible for making warehouse decisions and addressing or resolving issues based on experience, written procedures and analytical analysis.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all activities related to receiving, issuing, production/lab support, shipping, inventory control and waste flow in support of the manufacturing site.
• Oversee the Warehouse Associates with day-to-day tasks and goals to support manufacturing and labs.
• Manages schedules (vacation/sick days/etc.).
• Communicating/assigning tasks within their shift and relay issues or updates to the Warehouse Manager.
• Maintains the warehouse in a constant audit ready state and participates in mock audits as well as health authority audits on site.
• Trains and coaches‚Äô staff and conducts annual performance reviews including goal setting, scheduling and monitoring progress of work and assignments/projects.
• Maintains inventory accountability and investigates any variances. Coordinate and ensure annual cycle count process.
• Manage scrapping of materials as well as seeking proper approval for destruction of materials.
• Supports receiving and shipping activities, along with issuing, kitting, cycle counting and waste flow.
• Ensures coordination between multiple warehouses shifts focusing on proper staffing and inventory movements.
• Agility to shift focus in a dynamic environment.
• Author/Revise/ Standard Operating Procedures.
• Supports annual financial budget activities, while monitoring monthly expenditure and understanding key warehouse needs.
• Supports strategy planning for the warehouse, implements continuous improvement ideas within shift.
• Ensure efficient shift changes by effectively communicating with other Supervisors and Associates during transition.
• Execute monthly compliance reports for finance.
• Track and record metrics for warehouse receipts/transfers/capacity/etc.
• Monitor and work with 3PL warehouse.
• Other related job duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in supply chain, business or other relevant field with 5 years GMP warehouse experience OR 9 years of GMP warehouse experience OR relevant B.S. Degree with 3 years Novartis Gene Therapies warehouse or GMP Manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• 2 years‚Äô supervisory experience required.
• Pharmaceutical experience is preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to analyze issues and summarize outcomes to provide recommendations on compliant path forward; ideal applicant will be required to demonstrate high attention to detail, multi-tasking, and organization ability.
• Proficiency in ERP systems, S4 is preferred.