Warehouse Manager

Description

Position summary

The incumbent needs to have the ability to effectively communicate and direct warehouse personnel. They must implement and ensure all staff adherence to processes that are aligned with Zoetis’s policies and procedures. They are responsible for enforcing housekeeping principles to ensure clean, orderly, efficient, well-presented, and safe warehouse environments at Zoetis Parkville. The warehouse manager is responsible for daily warehouse and logistics operations ensuring the on-time supply of materials to the Zoetis site.

Responsibilities

Meet Environment Health and Safety requirements by adhering to safe operations through:

• Attendance at scheduled training sessions

• Awareness training

• Assistance with safety audits

• Timely hazard reporting

• Accident and incident reporting

• Housekeeping of work areas

Maintain Zoetis warehouse via the following:

• Manage all warehouse operations including material receival, staging, storage, issuance, expiry, disposal, and inventory accuracy.

• Manage logistics operations, including cold chain for both domestic and international.

• Manage regular stock takes and inventory management processes such as cycle counting to ensure only current and within expiry materials are located within the Zoetis warehouse locations.

• Perform ongoing administrative duties for materials, maintaining relevant databases, attending meetings, and representing manufacturing.

• Understand and implement relevant regulatory requirements and other guidelines as they relate to warehousing.

• Review, update, develop as required procedures, Batch Process Sheets and Bill of Materials (BOMs).

• Implement ongoing improvement initiatives.

Meet Quality and GMP requirements by:

• Adherence to GMP compliance and Site Quality Management Systems

• Manage ongoing regulatory compliance, assist in facilitation of regulatory audits and implementation of corrective and preventative actions.

• Maintaining work areas to acceptable standardsOther duties as directed by Manufacturing Lead

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Supply Chain Management, Business or related field.

• 5+ years’ experience in Supply chain management/logistics/cold chain warehousing in a management role.

• Forklift license or the ability to obtain

• Ability to read, write and speak English.

• Strong safety mindset.

• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage warehouse staff.

• Demonstrated technical understanding of supply chain processes and systems.

• Demonstrated knowledge of regulatory requirements, APVMA, TGA and DAFF

• Exceptional working knowledge and understanding SAP.

• Demonstrated experience with problem solving

• Double vaccinated with Covid – 19

About Zoetis

At Zoetis, our purpose is to nurture the world and humankind by advancing care for animals. As a Fortune 500 company and the world leader in animal health, we discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize vaccines, medicines, diagnostics and other technologies for companion animals and livestock. We know our people drive our success. Our award-winning culture, built around our Core Beliefs, focuses on our colleagues’ careers, connection and support. We offer competitive healthcare and retirement savings benefits, along with an array of benefits, policies and programs to support employee well-being in every sense, from health and financial wellness to family and lifestyle resources.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Connected to our purpose and Core Beliefs, at Zoetis, we lead with inclusion. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) focus helps create an environment where each colleague can thrive. Our commitment to DE&I begins with our leadership team of diverse backgrounds, experiences and ethnicities, and it is demonstrated in our support of our colleagues and the animal health industry. We have nine colleague resources groups whose members spread awareness, foster inclusivity and make a positive impact on our business and communities.

Our commitment to advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has earned us recognitions as a 2024 Catalyst Award recipient and a Top 50 Company for Workplace Fairness by Fair360 (formerly DiversityInc). Zoetis has also been named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality, a Best Company for Working Parents, a Top Company for Executive Women, among many others. Learn more here.

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