Job description
Quidel’s mission is to provide patients with immediate and frequent access to highly accurate, affordable testing for the good of our families, our communities and the world. We are a leading manufacturer of point of care diagnostic solutions. Quidel’s comprehensive product portfolio includes tests for a wide range of infectious diseases, cardiac and autoimmune biomarkers, as well as a host of products to detect COVID-19.
We are excited to announce that Quidel Corporation is now becoming QuidelOrtho! This transaction will bring together two world-class teams and complementary product portfolios to serve patients around the world. During this transition period, we encourage you to continue visiting our career site and also check out more career opportunities at Careers at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics | Ortho Clinical Diagnostics jobs Join our journey as we become one global diagnostics leader!
Reporting to the Senior Director, Global Distribution and Logistics, the Senior Manager, Global Logistics is a key role in the supply chain organization and one that sets out the vision for the global transportation function, the strategy for achieving the vision and accountability for ensuring its delivery. This role will operate with both direct and indirect reporting relationships with regional and/or local logistics operations.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS and DELIVARABLES
- Establish and oversee the transportation strategy and best practices for global logistics processes that enables the physical distribution of products as well as the administrative control and information flow. Own and lead the innovation and continuous improvement agenda for global transportation including digital initiatives
- Ensure we meet or exceed our customer transportation service requirements while ensuring cost is considered.
- Facilitate an environment for the identification of best practices for transportation execution that may be standardized at a global level and applied at a regional level for the physical distribution of products encompassing warehousing and local distribution
- Senior sponsor for partnerships and sourcing programs with global 3PLs that can be used by the business to deliver outsourced services for warehousing, transport and international logistics.
- Work with external advisers and internal senior owners of global trade compliance to ensure ongoing governance
- Represent and contribute on behalf of the logistics function when the organization engages in strategic projects, business ventures or seeks to expand into emerging and new markets as well as key initiatives surrounding EH&S, and CSR
- Represent and contribute on behalf of the global logistics function when the organization seeks to rationalize, review or invest in technology platforms that affect the logistics organization directly or indirectly
- Set out a succession and development plan for the transportation management organization that encourages investment in skills, the evolution of capabilities and harvesting of the right competencies and talent for the function
- Define the global governance process for transportation strategy that is aligned with the overall supply chain strategy. Set out and ensure the function exceeds key operational, service, financial and compliance metrics
- Create and manage the global transportation function center of excellence (COE) for the Company, including the availability of analyst and support resources, transportation expenditure and budget allocation, both globally and within region
- Owns and is accountable for total global transportation budget
- Oversee the deployment of reliable and efficient supply routes for opportunities in new territories or new business ventures
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
- Ability to articulate the vision and roadmap for logistics development, including prioritization of tasks and allocation of resources, including de-prioritization of activities that are not aligned with the vision
- Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills in order to communicate effectively across all levels within the organization and multiple cultures. Proficiency in MS Office is required
- Excellent knowledge of the distribution and logistics environment, encompassing global trade compliance, and international logistics
- Excellent knowledge of the end-to-end supply chain, with a clarity for understanding the importance and interdependencies associated with each stage of the process — Plan, Source, Make, Deliver
- Preparation and ownership of a global transportation budget.
- Prior successful negotiation of transportation pricing and service agreements.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, or related discipline or equivalent experience required; Master’s degree preferred
- 10 to 15 years of regional or global operational logistics leadership experience managing multisite and global logistics network
- 10+ years of experience running a complex, multi-modal transportation network serving both domestic and export markets, including express parcel and cold chain transportation
Before you apply, please make sure you share Quidel’ s values. We pride ourselves on keeping these values in mind every day as we execute on goals and plan for the future. We are seeking employees who share the same mindset and commitment to be
customer driven,
focused on execution, and
new product oriented. We succeed by being
determined,
optimistic team players.
Quidel is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer (Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans). We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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