Pharmacist – Warehouse Operations Lead

Aeris Health Pty Ltd; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Aeris Health Pty Ltd is seeking a Pharmacist - Warehouse Operations to lead the distribution centre, ensuring every medicine entering, stored and leaving is managed with professional judgement and regulatory compliance.

You will oversee inbound, storage, picking, dispatch and returns across shifts, maintain stock accuracy, and uphold licences and audit readiness to ensure on-time, proper-specified deliveries to pharmacies and hospitals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master of Pharmacy.
• Current general registration as a pharmacist with the Pharmacy Board of Australia (Ahpra), with no conditions that limit the role.
• Working knowledge of the Code of Good Wholesaling Practice, the Poisons Standard and state or territory medicines legislation.
• Hands-on experience managing Schedule 8 medicines and cold chain products.
• Experience hosting regulatory or customer audits.
• Proficiency with a warehouse management system and inventory reporting.
• Professional integrity, operational judgement, attention to detail, leadership, communication and problem solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead inbound, put-away, replenishment, picking, packing, dispatch and returns across all shifts.
• Plan labour, space and equipment to meet daily order cut-offs and seasonal peaks.
• Maintain stock accuracy through cycle counting, stocktakes and investigation of variances.
• Enforce first-expired, first-out rotation and manage short-dated, expired and quarantined stock.
• Work with procurement, transport and customer service to resolve supply and delivery issues.
• Keep the site compliant with the Australian Code of Good Wholesaling Practice for Medicines in Schedules 2, 3, 4 and 8.
• Maintain state or territory wholesale licences and meet all licence conditions.
• Confirm that every customer is authorised to receive the schedules of medicine ordered before supply.
• Hold accountability for the Schedule 8 vault: access control, receipt, storage, picking and dispatch.
• Keep controlled drug registers accurate and reconciled, and report losses or discrepancies to the regulator.

Skills

Leadership

Attention to detail

Communication

Problem solving

Operational judgement

Regulatory knowledge

Inventory reporting

Team management

Decision making

Education

Bachelor or Master of Pharmacy

Pharmacist registration with Ahpra (Australia)

Tools

Warehouse Management System

Job description

The Pharmacist - Warehouse Operations runs the distribution centre and is accountable for every medicine that enters, sits in and leaves it. The role combines day-to-day operational leadership with the professional judgement of a registered pharmacist. You will lead receiving, storage, picking, dispatch and returns for scheduled and unscheduled medicines, including controlled drugs and cold chain products. You will keep the site licensed and audit-ready, and make the final call when product quality or lawful supply is in question. Success means pharmacies and hospitals receive the right product, in full, on time and in the condition the manufacturer intended.

Key responsibilities

Lead inbound, put-away, replenishment, picking, packing, dispatch and returns across all shifts.

Plan labour, space and equipment to meet daily order cut-offs and seasonal peaks.

Maintain stock accuracy through cycle counting, stocktakes and investigation of variances.

Enforce first-expired, first-out rotation and manage short-dated, expired and quarantined stock.

Work with procurement, transport and customer service to resolve supply and delivery issues.

Keep the site compliant with the Australian Code of Good Wholesaling Practice for Medicines in Schedules 2, 3, 4 and 8.

Maintain state or territory wholesale licences and meet all licence conditions.

Confirm that every customer is authorised to receive the schedules of medicine ordered before supply.

Hold accountability for the Schedule 8 vault: access control, receipt, storage, picking and dispatch.

Keep controlled drug registers accurate and reconciled, and report losses or discrepancies to the regulator.

About you

Bachelor or Master of Pharmacy.

Current general registration as a pharmacist with the Pharmacy Board of Australia (Ahpra), with no conditions that limit the role.

Working knowledge of the Code of Good Wholesaling Practice, the Poisons Standard and state or territory medicines legislation.

Hands-on experience managing Schedule 8 medicines and cold chain products.

Experience hosting regulatory or customer audits.

Proficiency with a warehouse management system and inventory reporting.

Professional integrity, operational judgement, attention to detail, leadership, communication and problem solving skills.

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