Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Cold Room/Freezers -22degreesF/-6degrees C, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.), Warehouse
Job Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
Warehouse & Inventory Control Supervisor
The Warehouse & Inventory Control Supervisor is responsible for overseeing daily warehouse operations, owning inventory accuracy and inventory control processes, and ensuring efficient storage, distribution, and logistics activities. This role ensures that materials and products are received, stored, documented, and shipped in a timely, compliant, and cost-effective manner while maintaining high standards of safety, quality, organization, and regulatory compliance.
DESCRIPTION
How you will make an impact:
You will lead warehouse operations and inventory management to ensure efficient, safe, compliant, and cost-effective logistics processes while driving inventory accuracy, strengthening inventory controls, supporting audit readiness, and continuously improving warehouse operations in a regulated manufacturing environment.
What you will do:
- Oversee day to day warehouse operations, including receiving, storage, picking, packing, shipping, and material movement.
- Own inventory accuracy across all warehouse locations and storage areas.
- Develop, implement, and maintain inventory control procedures that promote inventory integrity and consistent transaction documentation using approved site systems and processes.
- Maintain accurate inventory levels through a structured cycle count program, physical inventory activities, routine audits, and variance investigations.
- Investigate inventory discrepancies, perform root cause analysis, implement corrective actions, and monitor recurring trends to improve inventory accuracy.
- Monitor stock levels and coordinate replenishment activities to avoid shortages or excess inventory.
- Support inventory process improvements, system enhancements, and future ERP and warehouse system initiatives.
- Optimize warehouse layout, material flow, storage capacity, and workflows to improve efficiency, safety, and productivity.
- Supervise, coach, train, and evaluate warehouse/shipping personnel while fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and safety.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good Documentation Practices (GDP), health, safety, environmental, and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Maintain material identification, traceability, segregation, quarantine, released, rejected, and expired inventory controls in accordance with Quality requirements and approved procedures.
- Coordinate with Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Quality, Supply Chain, and Finance to ensure material availability and inventory alignment.
- Analyze inventory performance and operational data to develop reports and dashboards on inventory accuracy, cycle count performance, inventory aging, warehouse productivity, and other key operational metrics.
- Manage vendor relationships and oversee inbound and outbound shipments.
- Develop, maintain, and periodically review warehouse standard operating procedures (SOPs) and ensure employees are appropriately trained.
- Support internal audits, external audits, customer audits, and regulatory inspections by maintaining audit ready warehouse documentation and practices.
- Partner with Finance to support inventory reconciliations, annual physical inventories, and inventory related investigations while maintaining appropriate segregation of duties and approval requirements.
- Support identification and disposition of excess, obsolete, and slow-moving inventory in partnership with Supply Chain, Operations, Quality, and Finance.
- Maintain warehouse operations in accordance with established internal controls, approval authorities, and segregation of duties requirements. Escalate control gaps and partner with cross functional teams to strengthen inventory governance.
- Identify and implement process improvements to reduce costs, improve inventory accuracy, increase productivity, and strengthen operational controls.
- Lead warehouse organization initiatives, including 5S, visual management, warehouse location optimization, and continuous improvement activities.
REQUIREMENTS
How you will get here:
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent experience.
Experience
- Five or more years of progressive warehouse, inventory management, or materials management experience, preferably within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, or other regulated manufacturing environments.
- Strong knowledge of inventory management systems and ERP platforms. Warehouse Management System Lite (WMS) experience is preferred but not required.
- Experience with data analysis and reporting tools such as Excel and Power BI.
- Proven leadership and team management skills.
- Experience developing cycle count programs, improving inventory accuracy, and supporting physical inventories.
- Experience supporting GMP operations, quality audits, or regulatory inspections.
- Experience supporting ERP implementations or warehouse process improvements is preferred.
Skills
- Inventory control and accuracy
- Leadership and team development
- Process improvement
- Time management and multitasking
- Attention to detail
- Analytical thinking
- Strong organizational and problem-solving abilities
- Strong communication skills
- Root cause analysis and corrective action implementation
- Cross functional collaboration
- Inventory governance and internal controls
- Material traceability
- Warehouse KPI development and performance management
Preferred Qualifications
- Certification in supply chain or logistics such as APICS CPIM or CSCP.
- Lean or Six Sigma experience.
- Experience with warehouse automation or optimization technologies.
- Knowledge of GMP, GDP, inventory controls, and regulated manufacturing environments.
- Experience supporting ERP transformations and warehouse process standardization.
Work Environment
- Warehouse setting with potential exposure to varying temperatures.
- May require standing, walking, lifting, and operating material handling equipment.
- Occasional extended hours during month end, physical inventories, audits, inspections, or peak operational periods.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in New Jersey is $70,800.00–$94,400.00.
This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:
A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards