Job Abstract

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.

Position Summary:

The Planning Manager will have the overall responsibility for the production scheduling, labor management analysis, slot optimization, transportation management, training & development, and workforce management systems.  In this role, the Planning Manager is responsible for production schedule and balancing to meet daily service throughput and productivity objectives utilizing software and automation solutions to achieve goals.

The Planning Manager will communicate daily with Operations Management to ensure specific needs are addressed.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop short and long-range staffing plans based on productivity objectives and forecasted volume requirements.
• Develop, manage, and monitor performance reporting on quality productivity and cost.
• Develop, analyze, and recommend strategic and tactical operational and systemic improvements to meet current and future service, throughput and cost objectives.
• Monitor DC’s performance to schedule and forecast to actual and report to management team for continuous improvement opportunities.
• Maintain systems and databases in an accurate and timely manner as well as track activities and generate metrics to manage the process.
• Training & development of warehouse associates  

Minimum Requirement

Degree or equivalent experience. Typically requires 6+ years of professional experience and 0-2 years of supervisory experience.

Education

4 year degree or equivalent experience

Critical Skills

• 6+ years operational experience including, 2 years managerial experience. 
• Industrial Engineering/Six Sigma – base knowledge
• Extensive knowledge of data mining with multiple platforms
• Expert user of Excel/Access/PowerPoint
• Strong Verbal and Written Communications skills

Additional Knowledge/Skills

• Very thorough knowledge of Operations Management
• Interpersonal skills
• Proven Managerial / supervisory skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Extensive knowledge of product flow through distribution center and impact of bottlenecks
• Experienced in a high transaction customer sensitive environment.
• Ability to coordinate with multiple functional departments.
• Analytical skills

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or genetic information. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.

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