Warehouse Supervisor

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General Information

Job Title: Warehouse Supervisor

Department: Operations

Reports to: Operations Director

Job Context

LivaNova Australia and New Zealand represents an organization of around 70 employees. It includes a commercial team of field employees encompassing Sales, Marketing, Medical Science Liaison and Service Engineer profiles; employees in office support functions and an Operations team consisting of production, warehouse, engineering and design personnel.

Job Purpose

The purpose of the Warehouse Supervisor role is to coordinate and control the storage and distribution of LivaNova Perfusion Tubing Packs, Finished Goods, Capital and Spare Parts to customer specification and regulatory compliance for the storage and handling of medical devices in accordance with organization policies and procedures and Australian Medical Device Regulations, ISO9001 and/or other relevant statutory requirements.

This position provides strong support to the sales and service steam by ensuring deliveries are dispatched on time and quality standards are met.

Provides support to the Australian Operations team with constant communication with supply and production to ensure components are available for production builds.

Essential Job Functions
- Lead the warehouse team through encouraging a LivaNova MVP mindset. Ensure that talent is attracted, developed and retained and staff are engaged with business and operations objectives.
- Ensure highest levels of customer service through world class On Time Delivery and Back Order performance.
- Manage all aspects of the inward/outward goods processes, for example:

- Receive and count stock items, and record data using WMS and ERP
- Picking and packing of customer orders
- Dispatch and transport
- Shipping manufactured goods to contract sterilization and back to site
- Ensure high level of inventory accuracy through following best practice warehouse transactions and cycle counting of materials.
- Housekeeping and warehouse storage levels maintained to medical device industry standards.
- Manage freight providers to quality, service and cost requirements.
- Compliance with all regulatory and company policies and standards.
- Communication to sales and service teams on dispatch of samples, capital equipment and service components.
- Bag and label raw materials into smaller quantities and place on warehouse shelf for storage and production use.
- Seek to continuously improve Warehouse performance through adoption of LivaNova Business System tools and processes.
- Clean and maintain supplies, tools, equipment, and storage areas in order to ensure compliance with Occupational, Health and Safety
- Maintain accurate data on the Exact computer system with a view to continually

developing and streamlining the processes. Manage stock on a computerised database (FIFO) basis
- Actively participate in company meetings, annual stock-take and training as required from time to time.
- As an ambassador of LivaNova, uphold its' policies and values both inside and outside the organisation.

Minimum requirements and qualifications
- Prior experience as a warehouse supervisor in a manufacturing company is a must
- Very strong leadership and management skills.
- Proficient in the use of ERP and WMS systems.
- Effective team player able to influence at all levels and across the business
- Able to analyse processes and make improvements
- Good computer skills. Capable in use of MS Office suite.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Accuracy Oriented.
- Exposure to Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement.

Desired Skills
- Experience in medical devices or pharmaceutical industry is highly desirable. As a minimum experience within a highly regulated industry.
- Understanding of regulatory requirements.
- Knowledge of financial performance reporting and cost management.
- Understanding of quality management techniques.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

Values
- Patients First: Our Shared Purpose is to improve the lives of patients.
- Meaningful Innovation: We develop novel products and therapies to address multiple disease states.
- Act with Agility: We challenge ourselves to continuously improve and act nimbly.
- Commitment to Quality and Integrity: We dedicate ourselves to high quality and integrity in everything we do.
- Collaborative Culture: We value diversity of thought and our collective strength as a team.

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

- LivaNova values equality and celebrates diversity. We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair, transparent and free from unlawful discrimination._

Background Checks at LivaNova:

- Upon successful completion of the hiring process an offer may be extended. Please note, LivaNova reserves the right to conduct background investigations and/or reference checks on all its potential employees, where permitted by local legislation. This offer therefore, is continge