What does Supply Chain Product Management contribute to Cardinal Health
Operations is responsible for materials handling and product distribution in a distribution or manufacturing environment. Includes warehousing and fulfillment of materials and products, transportation, inventory management as well as demand, supply and manufacturing planning. Supply Chain Product Management is responsible for identifying, recommending, designing and implementing new solutions for the Supply Chain organization including new technology features, practices, processes, metrics or models. Supply Chain Product Management develops the strategic vision, supporting business case, and financials for new products. Manages project timelines and budgets.

As a Product SME on the Supply Chain Product Management team, you will have responsibility for individual inventory management product solutions sets that works towards building/enhancing Cardinal Health inventory management solutions. You will partner with our product and leadership teams to build and align strategic vision for Product Recommendation Engine and Analytics for Cardinal Health (PREACH). You will work with business users to drive discovery research, problem validation and solution validation. You will support investments in your product by partnering with stakeholders and sponsors. You will quickly learn the Cardinal Health business and the Inventory Management processes to build, improve, and maintain your product.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that all the functional and technical aspects of the product and its features meet user requirements
• Collaborates with business users to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements
• Translate the strategy into actionable tasks and work with cross-functional agile teams to execute those requirements
• Partners in developing user stories
• Partners with Product Manager and other Agile team members is designing the product features.
• Responsible for developing business case analysis
• Responsible for requirements, development and testing the designed features
• Responsible to collaborate with leaders in developing/updating the business roadmap and business cases
• Monitoring, evaluating product progress at each stage of the process and be able to articulate progress, accomplishments, and challenges in various stakeholder meetings
• Liaising with the product team and end-users to deliver updated functionality and new processes
• Participating in sprint planning meetings
• Work closely with Enterprise IT on technology needs for product development
• Build relationships across the Inventory Management team, Account Management, Procurement/Sourcing and Systems teams to inform decisions and maintain feedback channels

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field preferred, or equivalent work experience preferred
• 4-8 years experience preferred in -
  • Inventory Management/Supply Chain IT or Business roles or related customer facing experience
  • Driving or leading operational metrics or dashboards, leading Automation or AI/ML solutions is extremely valuable.
• Strong or in-depth knowledge in one or many of these functional areas is required: Inventory Management, Auto Substitution, Customer Allocation, Order flow, and Demand Planning preferred
• Should have ability to take an idea and build a feature
• Experience in documenting requirements or user stories and testing the solutions preferred
• Ability to figure out how to close the gaps and execute solutions
• Ability to create/run queries to investigate issues
• Should have experience/demonstrated strong analytical skills, problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Strong communication, collaboration, and negotiation skills
• Professional level business writing skills required

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Applies comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks and projects
• May contribute to the development of policies and procedures
• Works on complex projects of large scope
• Develops technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems.
• Solutions are innovative and consistent with organization objectives
• Completes work independently; receives general guidance on new projects
• Work reviewed for purpose of meeting objectives
• May act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

• Anticipated salary range: $76,000 to $108,000
• Bonus eligible: No
• Benefits: Health insurance, 401k Contributions, Paid Time Off, Vacation, STD/LTD

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.