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Manufacturing and Supply

Manufacturing and Supply
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Warehouse Supervisor

Northborough, Massachusetts Salary Range   USD 79,500.00 - 114,833.33
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Our teams produce and deliver over 4 billion units of medicines and vaccines every year, ensuring every breakthrough gets to the people who need it most.
Our state-of-the-art facilities, AI-powered smart factories, and cutting-edge automation are redefining what’s possible: ensuring treatments reach patients faster, safer, and more sustainably than ever before. This is where your skills, ambition, and passion can shape the future of healthcare.

Job Title: Warehouse Supervisor

Location: Northborough, Ma

About the Job

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families.

Your job, as Warehouse Supervisor within our Materials Operations group, will be to be responsible for the daily activities in the warehouse, in partnership with your team and peers, to achieve business objectives on behalf of management and key stakeholders, in one or more of the following areas of focus: 

Inbound (receiving), Production support, Fleet Management, and Pick/Pack/Ship of controlled and indirect materials. 

This role manages Material Handlers, Leads, and Drivers in a warehouse environment.  This role also provides leadership, insight, and information for various projects to achieve objectives in a timely manner. 

**Monday-Friday- 1st shift- supporting 'shift' employees that may require early morning/late evenings when necessary. Weekends as per business needs. **

Department Description- Materials Operations is a regulatory compliant service operation that is responsible for the safe and secure, Receipt, Storage, Shipping and Transport of Sanofi materials and products.  Materials Operations is also responsible for supply chain security compliance, hazardous materials, import/export, inventory management & control, warehouse operations and other value-added logistics.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities:

  • Participates in the development of Materials Operations policies (including operational, safety, and quality programs).

  • Actively manages daily inventory activities to ensure transactions match physical movements.  Oversees the reconciliation of inventory and transactional records to assure compliance with SOX and other regulatory requirements.

  • Ensures warehouse site is in compliance with appropriate internal and regulatory policies and procedures. 

  • Ensures execution of material flow, work practices and inventory control are in accordance with cGXP, FDA, OSHA, IATA, DOT, TSA, SOX, and other applicable regulatory requirements.

  • Executes resource planning activities to effectively match skilled resources to department demand. 

  • Tracks Right-First-Time (RFT) opportunities and facilitates root cause analysis to include inventory discrepancy reconciliation

  • Facilitates +QDCI, Daily Capacity Management, and daily metric discussions at the Gemba to include KPI's, trending, and pareto analysis of daily business drivers.

  • Ensures the Material Operations team is focused on improving performance and efficiency.  Recommends, cultivates and develops ideas for improvement in operating methods and procedures to resolve problems prior to or when they arise.

  • Cooperates transversally to resolve customer service (internal/external) issues.

  • Maintains safety standards and training in the department; ensures that the building is maintained in a clean and safe manner and that inventories and equipment are properly protected against theft, fire, and other hazards that may cause loss or damage.

  • Ensures hazardous materials packaging, storage, and transportation.

  • Develops and measures "SMART" objectives for functional area.

  • Execute staffing decisions for functional area to include time card management, onboarding/offboarding, and performance management.

  • Responsible for adherence to customer service level agreements.

  • Participates in and manages department on-call program.

  • Ensures compliance with site Powered Industrial Truck Program (PIT).

About You

Leadership Qualifications

Leading People

  • Sanofi's leaders motivate and inspire their people and build effective teams.  They manage for high performance and develop others within the organization.

  • Sanofi’s leaders are versatile learners who are comfortable with complexity and ambiguity.  They are courageous decision makers who are candid and direct.

  • Sanofi’s leaders are adept at utilizing recognition, feedback, coaching, and mentoring to address performance issues and develop employees.

Leading the Business

  • Sanofi's leaders understand and respond to the evolving business environment.  They think beyond their sphere of influence to see what is not obvious and create a compelling vision and direction that inspires engagement from their people.

  • Sanofi's leaders continuously look internally and externally for best practices.  They challenge the status quo and encourage their people to try new approaches.  They have a track record of generating successful new ideas that improve business performance.

Basic Qualifications

  • High school diploma / GED ​- required.

  • Minimum of 5 years materials ​management, supply chain, or purchasing experience.

  • Minimum of 5 years materials

  • Minimum of 3 years lead or supervisory experience

  • Minimum of 3 years’ experience with ERP and/or warehouse management systems

  • Strong critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills.

  • Excellent interpersonal skills

  • Solid working knowledge of MS Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint)

Preferred Qualifications-

  • Bachelor's degree - preferred.

  • Experience within the Bio-Pharma Industry and with cGXP requirements

  • Lean / Six Sigma Experience

  • Experience supervising multiple functions within warehouse, including but not limited to, inbound (receiving), inventory control, production support, put-away; storing, packing and shipping of materials.

  • Experience with various supply chain security programs (TSA, CTPAT, DOT)

Special Working Conditions-

  • Ability to work in various environmental cold rooms

Why Choose Us?

  • Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

  • Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.

  • Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.

  • Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.

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