Advisor, Supply Chain Product Management

What does Supply Chain Product Management contribute to Cardinal Health

Operations is responsible for materials handling and product distribution in a distribution or manufacturing environment. Includes warehousing and fulfillment of materials and products, transportation, inventory management as well as demand, supply and manufacturing planning. Supply Chain Product Management is responsible for identifying, recommending, designing and implementing new solutions for the Supply Chain organization including new technology features, practices, processes, metrics or models.

Supply Chain Product Management develops the strategic vision, supporting business case, delivering product timeline, and financials for new products.

The Cardinal Health Supply Chain Product Management teamdeliversproducts and services that create a differentiated experience for customers while relentlessly improving speed, reliability, and costthroughsupply chain optimization. We enable growth through effective and efficient movement of over 45millionshipments for Cardinal Health customers. This includes the flow of materials and products between suppliers, manufacturers, and customers.

As an Associate Product Manager / Advisor on the Supply Chain Product Management team, you will play a key role in supporting efforts to enable end to end supply chain system flows for transportation, inventory, and/or warehouse management activities and business processes. Working with supply chain functional business partners, your focus will be on successful execution of holistic solutions for the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain.

You will be a critical contributor in the delivery of innovative, market leading solutions that drive operational efficiencies, reduce costs, enhance customer experience and satisfaction. Your work will contribute towards the end vision of a connected supply chain product portfolio with cognitive capabilities that optimize the Pharma supply chain through automated processes along with theenje ability to predict trends or unexpected events, react in real-time, and provide insights to the business to ensure the best possible service to Cardinal Health customers.

• Attends and actively participates in agile ceremonies, asking questions of both business and IT to understand business needs and solutions (how and what), and explores product and solution analytics for understanding
• Collaborates with Product Manager in the exploration of new / innovative technologies and participates in product discovery efforts and leads smaller discovery sessions for enhancements
• Partners with enterprise IT on day to day execution, participates in daily Agile / SCRUM ceremonies owning documentation, updates tickets and statuses regularly, recap notes, and communication to stakeholders.
• Works cross functionally and collaborates with Customer Service, Transportation Operations, and Sales team members to research, define, and create user personas, business processes, and user journey maps.
• Refines backlog of product backlog items (user stories, tasks) that are prioritized and ready for the next sprint cycle, identifies trade-offs and determines path forward with support as needed from manager; takes action to resolve challenges at team level, communicates blockers in timely fashion
• Uses analytics to lead backlog refinement, planning, and to measure progress against product strategy.
• Responsible for the publishing and maintenance of product metrics dashboards and communications to stakeholders.
• Supports the Product Manager in measuring success of products deployed, through the co-creation of Key Performance Indicators, target adoption rates, and financial impact targets.
• Understands how their product/solution contribution to value within the overall portfolio and program, contributes to defining OKRs, collaborates with cross-functional teammates to articulate requirements for solutions
• Ensures high-quality solution delivery by participating in product launch activities, such as pre-UAT testing and validation and rollout communication/training

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain or related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred
• 3+years of experience in Inventory Management, Supply Chain, or Business roles preferred
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office products
• Professional level business writing skills: a writing sample will be requested as part of the interview process
• Knowledge of Agile processes and principles is a plus

• Applies comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks and projects
• May contribute to the development of policies and procedures
• Works on complex projects of large scope
• Develops technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems
• Solutions are innovative and consistent with…