Manager, Commercial Pharmacy Logistics

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Pennsylvania.

📋 Description

• Oversee projects that enhance commercial pharmacy logistics and centralized pharmacy service center operations.

• Analyze workflows, performance metrics, and operational challenges to optimize throughput, inventory accuracy, productivity, service levels, and cost efficiency.

• Facilitate facility design efforts, focusing on workflow analysis, storage solutions, space utilization, automation integration, and operational readiness planning.

• Collaborate with pharmacy, quality, regulatory, supply chain, and operational stakeholders to establish and sustain logistics processes across receiving, inventory management, storage, fulfillment, returns, and distribution.

• Manage the implementation, testing, deployment, and operational readiness of warehouse automation, material handling, warehouse management, PLC, and related technology solutions.

• Work alongside engineering, IT, vendors, and operations teams to enhance automation systems, reporting, dashboards, operational visibility, performance monitoring, and workforce productivity.

• Offer operational subject matter expertise for consulting engagements, customer interactions, assessments, workflow analyses, business cases, solution evaluations, and capability development.

• Direct cross-functional initiatives from planning to implementation, which includes development of implementation plans, timelines, risk assessments, action logs, status updates, issue resolution, and stakeholder communications in collaboration with a dedicated project manager.

• Spearhead continuous improvement efforts utilizing Lean, Six Sigma, and operational excellence methodologies.

• Assist with compliance, safety, documentation, training, audits, validation, corrective actions, and operational readiness tasks.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain, logistics, pharmacy operations, industrial engineering, business administration, or a related discipline.

• Five to seven years of progressively responsible experience in healthcare supply chain, pharmacy operations, logistics, warehouse automation, consulting, or similar operational settings.

• Proven experience in coordinating cross-functional projects that involve automation systems, material handling technologies, warehouse operations, or pharmacy fulfillment processes.

• Strong grasp of commercial pharmacy operations, healthcare supply chain, warehouse operations, fulfillment workflows, and logistics processes.

• Familiarity with warehouse management systems, material handling technologies, automation systems, SCADA/PLC interfaces, reporting tools, and operational performance metrics.

• Capacity to analyze operational challenges, interpret data, and devise practical, scalable solutions.

• Excellent project coordination abilities, capable of managing priorities, timelines, risks, deliverables, and cross-functional execution in a matrixed environment.

• Exceptional communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

• Keen attention to detail with a strong commitment to quality, compliance, safety, and operational excellence.

• Customer-focused mindset with the capability to support both internal and external stakeholders.

• Willingness to travel approximately 70% based on project, customer, vendor, and site implementation requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, automation engineering, computer science, information systems, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise systems, warehouse or supply chain applications, automation, controls, SCADA, and technical leadership, or a related field required.

• 2+ years of experience in a management role required.

• Certification in project management professional, ISA certified automation professional, or equivalent certification preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision care.

• Backup dependent care.

• Adoption assistance.

• Infertility coverage.

• Family building support.

• Behavioral health solutions.

• Paid parental leave.

• Paid caregiver leave.

• Training programs.

• Professional development resources.

• Mentorship programs.

• Employee resource groups.

• Volunteer activities.