Logistics Leader - Materials

Job Description

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: exploring uncharted questions, engineering innovative solutions, advancing scientific understanding, and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to solving real‑world problems with purpose and precision. You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

In this role, you’ll help us shape the future and improve lives for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

The Logistics Leader oversees all plant logistics and materials management activities to ensure safe, efficient, and cost‑effective operations. This role is responsible for receiving inventory control, material handling, warehousing, and shipping while driving performance in safety, quality, service, productivity, and cost. The position also leads materials flow strategy, budgeting, staffing, and continuous improvement initiatives to optimize supply‑chain performance and deliver value across the plant.

This position reports to the site Logistics Manager. The incumbent must possess a good level of understanding of the functional areas and provide leadership in a team setting. The position will also lead logistics projects to drive materials warehouse efficiencies, modifications or improvements. The person serves as a liaison for and resource to the third‑party operations (if applicable) when it relates to raw materials and finishing supplies.

• Consistently lead first with safety to demonstrate that it is embraced as an immovable value. Develop and maintain safety systems in accordance with K‑C standards and lead the team to complete safety objectives and ensure a safe and productive work environment. Create and support an environment that removes barriers to success.
• Develop and implement continuous improvement programs that ensure the safe handling of materials continues to grow and progress.
• Fully comply with corporate loss management policies as well as government safety and health regulations. Support Corporate Drug and Alcohol policy compliance with their team to deal with issues as they arise.

• Maintain systems and procedures in materials in accordance with site quality objectives.
• Maintain housekeeping programs which meet or exceed department and plant objectives.

• Drive supply chain value capture programming within materials warehouse to yield transformational cost savings.
• Manage materials handling costs (i.e., operating supplies, maintenance, labor, gap closure savings, etc.).
• Development of team objectives that support plant and staff logistics objectives. Support plant initiatives on Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and People.
• Provide for the most cost‑effective storage, retrieval and issuing of materials in the plant. Support efforts to drive improvements in material flow and storage density.
• Ensure material inventory accuracy and data integrity through the timely and accurate handling of all inventory transactions for receipt, counting/reconciling, consumption, and production reporting processes.
• Leverage and optimize management system technology (SAP/EWM/WMS) to maximize efficiency.
• Ensure that appropriate assets and equipment are available and properly maintained.

• Promote a good employee relations climate through the effective and consistent implementation of plant guidelines and procedures that will result in employees considering their plant to be a fair and equitable place of employment.
• Provide leadership to ensure the organization attracts and retains the best people and fosters an environment which motivates a diverse team to fully use its capabilities in achieving desired business results.
• Ability to lead organizational change, build relationships, and make good use of available resources. Ability to confront problems and handle conflicts.
• Ability to problem‑solve and set priorities, generating new ideas and improved ways of working while maintaining effective control. Demonstrated capability…