Assistant Manager - Inventory - Avantor : Job Details

The Opportunity:

Avantor, a Global Fortune 500 company is looking for a dedicated Assistant Manager – Inventory to optimize our Biopharma Production organization. This Devens, MA role is full-time, on-site.

If you have inventory/ warehouse supervisory experience – let's talk!

Minimum Education Requirement:

• Associate's degree

Required Experience (2+ yrs.):

• Overseeing an inventory control/kitting team
• Supervising multi- shift Inventory Control Supervisors
• Supervising Material Handling Leads and associates.
• Ensuring that the warehouse operates at peak efficiency, by supervising, organizing, directing, and training warehouse employees
• Reviewing and evaluation of employee performance.
• Ensuring that the warehouse department adheres to site safety procedures.
• Conducting periodic safety walks and trainings and near miss investigations
• Ensuring that the warehouse is maintaining quality
• Advising Supervisors and Leads on resource allocations
• Communicating and coordinating with Warehouse Managers and Supervisors to ensure smooth inventory transfers and optimized warehouse utilization.
• Interacting with Supervisors, Leads in problem solving, decision-making, and team issues
• Ensuring Supervisors, Leads, and associates work collaboratively in the decision-making processes that are in alignment with the business goals and objectives, Good Warehousing Practices, Key Performance Indicator's (KPI), OSHA requirements and Human Resources (HR) guidelines.
• Advising internal shareholders of major warehouse activities and non-routine changes to the schedule
• Establishing, monitoring, and managing operation goals.
• Defining goals and objectives
• Reporting on department performance/ metrics and track KPIs.
• Evaluating / reviewing department Supervisors, Leads and associates
• Reading and interpreting documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and SOPs.
• Writing reports and correspondence.
• Collaboration skills (IE: Microsoft Office /ERP System software).
• Perform other duties as assigned

Preferred Experience:

• Supporting daily management meetings for the material handling and inventory control teams.
• Developing morale and motivation to team through positive leadership, sincere interest and recognition, fair appraisals of performance and sound counseling within established Company policies.
• Utilizing lean manufacturing tools to recommend and implement warehouse changes
• Enabling/ developing Supervisors in their managerial skills/ performance
• Conducting associate relation investigations and facilitating effective communications and collaborative problem-solving strategies
• Experience in a GMP & FDA regulated manufacturing environment
• Warehouse / inventory management

How you will thrive and create an impact:

Avantor's Biopharma Production organization works side-by-side with Scientists around the world to enable breakthroughs in medicine, healthcare, and technology at scale. Our expertise and solutions, reliable products, digital solutions and innovation and manufacturing facilities help make life-changing possibilities a reality.

The Assistant Manager of one of Avantor's Biopharma Production warehouses will be responsible for the material handling and inventory control (kitting) teams at a Avantor Fluid Handling site.

This high visibility team member will:

• Be responsible for a team of Inventory Control Supervisors across 3 shifts, Inventory Control Associates, Material Handling Leads
• Be required to coordinate day-to-day activities, in collaboration with the Leads and Supervisors and internal stakeholders, to ensure effective warehouse management, and material flow into the various production cells
• Report to the site Operations Manager and will collaborate with site leadership
• Utilize business level communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Employ team building/ management skills.
• Manage multiple tasks and priorities while adapting to changing situations.

• Utilize leadership skills and problem-solving
• Be hands-on, team oriented and committed to business improvement processes.
• Effectively interface with multiple management levels

Why Avantor?

Dare to go further in your career. Join our global team of 14,500+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science.  

The work we do changes people's lives for the better. It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom's voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills and grow your career at Avantor.  

We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success.

At Avantor, dare to go further and see how the impact of your contributions set science in motion to create a better world.

Apply today!

ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING CONDITIONS & PHYSICAL EFFORT (Under Typical Positions)

The work environment characteristics and physical effort described here are representative of those an associate encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Typically works in a production/clean room environment with adequate lighting and ventilation and a normal range of temperature and noise level

Disclaimer:The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Avantor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Why Avantor?

Dare to go further in your career. Join our global team of 14,000+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science. The work we do changes people's lives for the better. It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom's voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills and grow your career at Avantor. We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success. At Avantor, dare to go further and see how the impact of your contributions set science in motion to create a better world. Apply today!

EEO Statement:

We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/province, or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

For more information about equal employment opportunity protections, please view the Equal Employment Opportunity is THE LAW Poster, EEO is the Law Poster Supplement, and Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination Provision.

3rd Party Non-Solicitation Policy:

By submitting candidates without having been formally assigned on and contracted for a specific job requisition by Avantor, or by failing to comply with the Avantor recruitment process, you forfeit any fee on the submitted candidates, regardless of your usual terms and conditions. Avantor works with a preferred supplier list and will take the initiative to engage with recruitment agencies based on its needs and will not be accepting any form of solicitation.