Logistics Specialist

**Why Patients Need You**:Our manufacturing logistics and supply team makes sure that customers and patients have the medicines they need, when they need them. You’ll help bring medicines to the world even faster by embracing challenges, imagining what’s possible and taking action.

**What You Will Achieve**:Working with a dynamic team of Logistics and Supply Chain experts, you will play a critical role in planning and managing the efficient flow of products and services through the Pfizer supply chain cycle. You will ensure that the products arrive on time and within acceptable quality parameters meeting the desired marketing and financial objectives. Through your extensive knowledge in logistics management, you will guide the execution and continuous improvement of standard logistics processes and system to meet customer requirements.

As a Senior Associate, your knowledge and skills will contribute towards the goals and objectives of the team. Your focus and ability to meet team targets will help in completing important deliverables on time. Your innovative use of communication tools and techniques will make it easy to manage difficult issues and help in establishing consensus between teams.

It is your dedication and hard work that will make it possible for Pfizer’s customers and patients to receive the medicines they need, when they need them.

**Job Purpose**:

- Operational responsibility for efficient and smooth logistics and distribution supply chain operations for goods across all Pfizer businesses within the agreed performance standards, in a well-planned, secure, cost appropriate and compliant manner.

Distribution and Logistics includes clearance of goods, reception, storage, distribution to Pfizer’s customers, transportation, and inventory counts and adjustments, following legal, regulatory, environmental and security requirements.
- Manage inventory management program in market.
- Accountability of Budget including preparation of annual, variance and forecasting reporting in line with GSC processes
- Develop and implement required logistics/supply solutions together with the LSP to ensure adequate logistics support to business strategies in alignment with Global Supply Chain functions and practices.
- Initiate and lead continuous improvement and operational excellence process and initiatives in the market related to logistics and distribution supply chain
- Participate in strategic projects for GSC related to network logistics changes, product change management, LSP changes (applicable to LSP markets) and other business critical projects in the market as assigned by the Logistics Manager.
- Accountability for efficient Returns, Recalls and Destruction processes.
- Ensure practices and processes are in compliance with Good Distribution Practices (GDP) and Pfizer’s standards in logistics, customs, trade, security, EHS, quality and serialization as well as any applicable laws and regulations (Local, US or International)
- Drive and support logistics operations optimization through Logistics COP.

**Warehousing and Inventory Management**:

- Accountable for implementing and leading a robust inventory management program that ensures inventory accuracy for both quantity and product quality between physical and system (for LSP markets this includes LSP and Pfizer ERP book stocks). The inventory program should include at minimum
- Process for an annual full count and pre-defined periodic cycle counts
- Process for movement of products to appropriate quality locations (quarantine to saleable, saleable to hold/destruction) to ensure availability of inventory in appropriate quality locations at any given time
- Process for system reconciliation
- Process for finance recording, reconciliation and adjustments

This is achieved by liaising with the Finance team, Quality team, ERP functional teams, GFSS, and the LSP’s on inventory and Sales Order Management issues.
- Liaising with LSP’s/ Project teams on development of inventory interfaces / processes with regular monitoring and correction of errors.
- Regular reconciliation of LSP’s and Pfizer ERP inventory levels and action’s implementation as needed.
- Accountable for implementing and leading the destruction process for expired/near expired/damaged inventory in destruction location at the logistics center
- Support in identifying opportunities at obsolescence reduction and inventory on hand as guided by finance management

**Distribution Operations and Reverse Logistics**:

- Lead the implementation and monitoring of an efficient and effective distribution operations to market(s) by balancing cost and lead time
- Selection and validation of appropriate transportation modes to market(s)
- Ensure product integrity through delivery chain through standard operating procedures
- Liaise with LSP’s and demand managers in transferring product between markets. This includes, arranging temperature conditions paperwork, managing transactions wit