Sr Director, Logistics & Dist - Supply & Distribution - Full Time
10+ years
Cortland, NY
Full-time
Onsite
1 month ago
About the role
Summary:
Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Procurement–Supply Chain, the Senior Director, Logistics & Distribution serves as the enterprise leader responsible for the design, integration, and execution of efficient, cost-effective inventory management and logistics strategies across Guthrie. This role provides strategic and operational oversight for system-wide supply chain distribution functions, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, financial stewardship, quality standards, and service excellence across all clinical and ancillary service lines.
Key Responsibilities:
Leadership Competencies:
Strategic Thinking: Ability to align logistics and supply chain strategies with enterprise objectives and evolving healthcare demands.
Operational Excellence: Strong command of process improvement, inventory optimization, and performance measurement.
Financial Acumen: Demonstrated understanding of budgeting, cost analysis, and fiscal accountability.
People Leadership: Proven capability to lead through influence, develop leaders, and manage complex employee relations matters.
Decision-Making & Judgment: Ability to assess complex situations, apply policies, and make sound decisions in dynamic environments.
Communication & Collaboration: Effective communicator who partners across disciplines and levels of the organization.
Experience:
Required
Preferred
Education:
Required: Bachelor’s Degree
Preferred: Master’s Degree
Essential Functions:
Other Duties:
update 3-24-26
Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Procurement–Supply Chain, the Senior Director, Logistics & Distribution serves as the enterprise leader responsible for the design, integration, and execution of efficient, cost-effective inventory management and logistics strategies across Guthrie. This role provides strategic and operational oversight for system-wide supply chain distribution functions, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, financial stewardship, quality standards, and service excellence across all clinical and ancillary service lines.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic leadership and develop tactical plans for logistics, inventory management, and distribution operations across Guthrie facilities and campuses.
- Oversee perpetual and periodic inventory management processes supporting all departments, including surgical, nursing, diagnostic, procedural, and ancillary areas.
- Lead, mentor, and develop managers, supervisors, and staff to ensure high performance, engagement, and operational consistency.
- Monitor operational and financial performance metrics; develop and implement action plans to achieve targeted outcomes and efficiencies.
- Ensure fiscal accountability through budget oversight, cost control, and corrective action planning as needed.
- Manages relationships with key executive stakeholders and collaborates with clinical and operational leaders to design and sustain compliant, customer-focused materials management processes.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and internal consultant for materials management systems, policies, procedures, and issue resolution.
- Represent Logistics & Distribution on organizational committees, projects, and quality improvement initiatives.
- Promote Guthrie’s mission, vision, values, and culture of continuous improvement.
Leadership Competencies:
Strategic Thinking: Ability to align logistics and supply chain strategies with enterprise objectives and evolving healthcare demands.
Operational Excellence: Strong command of process improvement, inventory optimization, and performance measurement.
Financial Acumen: Demonstrated understanding of budgeting, cost analysis, and fiscal accountability.
People Leadership: Proven capability to lead through influence, develop leaders, and manage complex employee relations matters.
Decision-Making & Judgment: Ability to assess complex situations, apply policies, and make sound decisions in dynamic environments.
Communication & Collaboration: Effective communicator who partners across disciplines and levels of the organization.
Experience:
Required
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in logistics, materials management, or supply chain operations.
- At least 5 years of leadership experience managing managers and/or supervisors.
- Demonstrated knowledge of accounting principles, cost analysis, standard costing, statistical control, and process improvement methodologies.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and healthcare supply chain information systems.
Preferred
- Healthcare supply chain experience encompassing procurement, receiving, distribution, replenishment, and equipment management.
Education:
Required: Bachelor’s Degree
Preferred: Master’s Degree
Essential Functions:
- Direct and oversee all logistics and distribution operations, ensuring quality, efficiency, and regulatory compliance.
- Allocate staffing resources appropriately to meet operational demands; support leaders with scheduling, hiring, training, and performance management.
- Plan, coordinate, and administer operational, financial, administrative, and technical functions of materials management.
- Serve as an operational and technical resource for issue resolution, education, and system optimization.
- Participate in quality improvement activities, including identification of improvement opportunities, data collection, and quality team engagement.
- Perform other duties as required to support organizational objectives.
Other Duties:
- Other duties as assigned
update 3-24-26
Skills
Hospitals and Health Care