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, and financials for new products. Manages project timelines and budgets.

As a Clinical Specialist on the Supply Chain Product Management team, you will have responsibility for individual inventory management product solutions sets that works towards building/enhancing Cardinal Health inventory management solutions. You will partner across the CHIME program, as well as with business and technical teams to identify opportunities and develop solutions that will drive a positive customer experience fulfilling more orders. You will work with business users to drive discovery research, problem validation and solution validation. You will support investments in your product by providing clinical insight and guidance on validations and solutions. You will quickly learn the Cardinal Health business and the Inventory Management processes to build, improve, and maintain your product. You will leverage your pharmacy and industry expertise, your stakeholders, customer feedback and relevant market information to achieve your product goals.

Responsibilities

• Develop clinical product vision, strategy, business case and implementation
• Breaks down vision and strategy to manageable business roadmap
• Oversees all stages of product creation from start to finish to ensure they meet the business needs from meet current day need to agreed scope of futuristic vision
• Owns the product, hence must ensure that all the functional and technical aspects of the product and its features meet user requirements.
• Collaborates with business users to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements
• Taking business requirements to envision product outcome based on vision of the product with pharmacy and clinical impact
• Translate the strategy into actionable tasks and work with cross-functional agile teams to execute those requirements
• Provide quantitative and qualitative analysis to support product objectives
• Accountable to the financial performance of the product
• Prioritizes and manages Product backlog items based on changing requirements
• Partners in developing user stories
• Communication and collaboration with the project agile teams and key business SMEs and stakeholders is a major part of the product owner’s routine
• Responsible to collaborate with leaders in developing/updating the business roadmap and business cases
• Monitoring, evaluating product progress at each stage of the process and be able to articulate progress, accomplishments, and challenges in various stakeholder meetings.
• Liaising with the product team and end-users to deliver updates
• Participating in sprint planning meetings
• Work closely with Enterprise IT on technology needs for product development
• Build relationships across the Inventory Management team, Procurement/Sourcing, Account Management and Systems teams to inform decisions and maintain feedback channels

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college of pharmacy, or equivalent work experience, preferred
• Licensure, or licensure-eligibility, to practice pharmacy in the state of Ohio, preferred (RPh)
• 8+ years experience in related field preferred
• 8+ years in hospital or retail pharmacy, both preferred
• Hands on analytical tool skills preferred
• Experience developing creative and innovative analytical insights with high business value preferred
• Ability to take a scenario or opportunity figure out how to close the gaps
• Should have experience/demonstrated strong analytical skills, problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Strong communication, collaboration, and negotiation skills
• Professional level business writing skills preferred

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Applies advanced knowledge and understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to manage a wide variety of projects
• Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
• Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models
• Works on or may lead complex projects of large scope
• Projects may have significant and long-term impact
• Provides solutions which may set precedent
• Independently determines method for completion of new projects
• Receives guidance on overall project objectives
• Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.