Kaiser Permanente is looking to optimize, maintain, and transform current supply chain and logistics processes by supervising a team, managing inventory, asset, and vendor deficiencies, and implementing recommendations for streamlining operations.
Requirements
- Minimum two (2) years of experience with databases and spreadsheets.
- Minimum one (1) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
- Minimum seven (7) years of experience in Materials and Inventory Control/Management, Logistics, Finance, Distribution, or a directly related field.
Responsibilities
- Supervises team applying best standards and practices in Supply Chain and Logistics and monitors team compliance to relevant guidelines.
- Manages the resolution of inventory, asset, and vendor/suppliers deficiencies.
- Implements recommendations suggested to streamline current systems to optimize, maintain, and transform current processes, and oversees the creation of research plans to streamline new/existing business operating models according to supply chain future state.
- Manages the audits of suppliers, conducts corrective actions based on interpreting needs identified from audits, and facilitates business reviews.
- Facilitates strategic decisions making based on results on utilization, quality, inventory levels, and courier routes for projects, while assessing customer satisfaction levels.
- Ensures asset accounting by: guiding and providing support, when needed, for the asset approval (e.g., vehicles, medical equipment), transfer, and disposal processes; supervising the dispositions in the accounting system; supervising the compliance with policies and procedures that achieve accountability by proposing strategies for cost reduction for the misuse of assets; and maintaining an ongoing process to identify, evaluate, and implement cost restructuring and cost reductions.
- Ensures adequate levels of inventory are maintained by: supervising the resolution of the receipt and distribution of inventory, and developing processes for the transactions and requests for supplies, equipment, and services; reviewing results from quantitative/qualitative analyses to forecast demand to minimize obsolescence or expiration; widely applying strategies for maintaining automated inventory and ordering systems to support inventory reconciliation and supervising routine inventory counts; confirming a wide range of complex reorder levels are updated, maintained, and adhered to so that proper product rotation remains valid, and inventory levels are accurate; and working collaboratively with contacts internal and external to the organization to maintain the inventory control system (e.g., ensure accuracy of product line, proper level of stock, rotation of product, cleanliness of product/carts).
Other
- Recommends developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships.
- Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides team members with feedback; and mentors and coaches to drive performance improvement.
- Pursues professional growth; provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations .
- Implements, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices and processes.
- Fosters open dialogue, supports, mentors, engages, and motivates team members on collaboration .
