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About the Role

Operations is responsible for materials handling and product distribution in a distribution or manufacturing environment. This role performs and controls manual or automated tasks for the receipt, storage, and shipment of product, ensuring the integrity, quality, and accuracy of the facility’s inventory.

Responsibilities

• Maintains inventory accuracy by managing product holds, product movements, physical returns, purchasing of products and automated tracking of inventory.
• Drives efficient picking and replenishment by profiling products to determine the best slotting, based on weights and measures, palette dimensions, frequency of product movement, expiration date, hazardous classifications and other characteristics.
• Could also drive efficient purchase orders, ensuring a timely manner of delivery to Cardinal Health 3PL’s.
• Continually monitors quality and productivity metrics including damaged product, adjustments, shortages, and cycle counts.
• Regularly communicates with Supervisor and other internal departments on inventory accuracy and quality metrics related to given products or customers.
• Could also communicate with outside vendors to secure supplies for operational needs.
• Investigates outbound discrepancies by checking for differences between physical counts and WMS records.
• Identifies and reports variances to Customer Care team and ensures that customers are shipped variances promptly, and documents all variances and issues in line with SOPs.
• Resolves inbound discrepancies by initiating communication with external suppliers and coordinating with Quality Assurance teams.
• Makes necessary adjustments in WMS and determines implications for customer order fulfillment.
• Determines proper resolution of discrepancies and other operational errors to ensure that customer commitments can be fulfilled in scheduled timeframe.
• Promptly communicates the root cause and resolution to the Supervisor, Manager, and other internal stakeholders as necessary to minimize future errors.
• Could place Purchasing Orders (PO’s) for customers and tracks to ensure on time deliveries to prevent service disruptions.
• Proactively identifies opportunities to improve operations and mitigate risks in inventory control and broader operations.
• Provides input into operational excellence initiatives through Supervisor and Manager.
• Serves as a resource to other team members, instructs Associates on complex picking, put-away, and replenishment tasks to maximize inventory accuracy.
• Is flexible to support daily operational needs.
• May assist in occasional warehouse audits by providing reporting and answering questions related to inventory control procedures, as necessary.

Requirements

• Applies knowledge and company policies to complete a variety of tasks.
• Demonstrates a working knowledge of jobs outside area of responsibility.
• Maintains appropriate licenses, training and certifications.
• Works on assignments that are moderately difficult requiring judgment in resolving issues.
• May assist in recommendation of processes on new assignments.
• Adheres to all quality guidelines.
• Works with limited supervision.
• Work occasionally involves review of output by work lead or supervisor.
• May provide general guidance or technical assistance to less experienced team members.
• Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Skills

• Inventory control
• Purchasing
• Operational excellence
• WMS records
• Customer order fulfillment
• Quality assurance

Location

• Cardinal Health

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 2-4 years of experience preferred
• Senior Associate

Education Level

• High School Diploma or GED preferred

Salary/Compensations

• $22-30 per hour

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• 401k savings plan
• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Work-Life resources
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy lifestyle programs

About the Company

• Cardinal Health is a distributor of pharmaceuticals, a global medical product manufacturer, and a provider of performance and data solutions for healthcare facilities.

Equal Opportunity

• Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.