Key responsibility:

Secure day to day:

• Managing the daily operation of the warehouse and distribution department in order to ensure required service levels
• Ensuring compliance with local regulations regarding health & safety, regulatory and hazardous materials, as well as internal policies and procedures
• Developing and maintaining Warehouse SOP's in line with ISO13485 and ISO14001
• Ensuring all staff is appropriately trained on all aspects applicable to run a compliant and safe operation
• Supporting the development of -and maintaining Service Level Agreements, with our businesses and customers
• Proactively respond, with a sense of urgency, analyze and resolve business and customer issues;
• Setting yearly departmental budget and monthly projections
• Achieving the department’s yearly financial objectives, through planning, directing, controlling, implementing, evaluating, monitoring and forecasting as needed to achieve budgets

Strengthening the base (Lead – Engage – Lean):

• Driving a constant focus on employee engagement and development by mentoring and training to ensure a culture in which employees are developed and talent is being retained
• Closely work together with other departments to pursue an overall cost effective and efficient integrated supply chain

New Business Opportunities:

• Enabling an operation which is capable to quickly adapt to major changes requested by our external and internal customers and / or changes in product mix
• Proactively support business growth, new products & services, mergers & acquisitions

Key Requirements:

• Higher education or equivalent work experience, preferred TSL, Economics, Engineering
• Minimum 3 years of experience in leading people and related warehouse operations, experience in healthcare sector (medical, pharma) will be an advantage
• Fluent in Polish and English (both verbal and written)
• Strong leadership profile, working close to people, open for inputs, influencer and people developer
• High level of process optimization capabilities, supported by concrete achievements or projects accomplished
• Operational ability to bring together the departmental goal achievement and good stakeholder relationship is required
• Good command of IT solutions supporting warehousing and operations (WMS as example), practical knowledge of JD Edwards ERP software will be seen as high advantage for this role
• Experience in the Medical Devices industry (ISO13485) will be an advantage
• Proven track record in LEAN / 6 Sigma; relevant education preferred (green or black belt)
• High sense of urgency and ability to find solutions under time restriction