Managing the blood inventory to ensure product availability and optimize levels for patient and customer needs is the core of this role. It involves overseeing inventory management, product allocation, transfers, imports, exports, forecasting, and shortage mitigation, while driving operational performance and ensuring regulatory compliance.
Responsibilities
Oversee centralized blood inventory management, allocation, resource sharing, and distribution strategies across affiliates
Direct inventory forecasting and demand planning processes to ensure product availability, minimize outdates, and optimize inventory investment
Manage inventory levels across affiliates, including imports, exports, inter-site transfers, and shortage mitigation activities
Communicate inventory outlook, risks, and recommendations to leadership
Establish inventory policies, procedures, and performance expectations to support consistent execution across the enterprise
Analyze inventory performance metrics, forecast accuracy, fill rates, import expense, and waste trends
Implement improvement plans as needed
Partner with Planning, Collections, Hospital Services, Client Success, Business Development, IRL, and Operations leaders to align supply with customer demand
Lead process improvement and operational excellence initiatives
Account for human resource management activities, including hiring, scheduling, mentoring, discipline, and termination in collaboration with Human Resources and in compliance with Versiti policies
Manage all aspects of departmental training functions to ensure incumbent and new staff are competent in all job-related tasks
Set direction for staff development including goal setting and personal and departmental performance in all job-related tasks
Build and maintain a positive team culture and employee experience
Perform other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties in this job classification
Understand and perform in accordance with all applicable regulatory and compliance requirements
Comply with all standard operating policies and procedures
Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in related field required
4-6 years of relevant experience, to include operational, inventory/supply chain, logistical, and financial, required
Demonstrated leadership skills to include team building, problem solving, and organizational agility, required
Excellent oral and written communication skills, required
Ability to direct a workforce with varied educational backgrounds and knowledge bases as a coach and mentor, required
Demonstrated knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and a desire to learn and apply American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) regulations, required
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Skills and ability in inventory management, distribution, and customer service, required
Demonstrated skills in analytical forecasting and inventory modeling, required
Ability to influence, reason and resolve conflict without direct authority, required
Demonstrated ability to use systems thinking skills to facilitate systematic improvement of processes, required
Demonstrated experience as an effective change agent, required
Personal Computer (desktop, laptop, tablet) required
General office equipment (computer, printer, fax, copy machine) required
Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) required
Nice to have:
Master's Degree in business
1-3 years of current management experience
Continuous Improvement experience
Ability and desire to learn the basic science encompassed within the operations
Capable of monitoring and assessing quality
APCIS-Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM)
Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP)
Benefits
Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Holidays
Short- and Long-term disability
Life insurance
7% match dollar for dollar 401(k)
Voluntary programs
Discount programs
About the Company
Versiti is a fusion of donors, scientific curiosity, and precision medicine that recognizes the gifts of blood and life are precious. It is home to the world-renowned Blood Research Institute, enables life-saving gifts from donors, and provides the science behind the medicine through its diagnostic laboratories. Versiti brings together outstanding minds with unparalleled experience in transfusion medicine, transplantation, stem cells and cellular therapies, oncology and genomics, diagnostic lab services, and medical and scientific expertise.
Based in Milwaukee, Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin is the exclusive provider of blood and blood products to more than 56 hospitals in 29 counties, and provides 230,000+ units of blood annually.
