Manager, Business Operations - Textiles/EVS

Medline Industries; United States; Hybrid; USD 101,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability

401(k) contributions

Paid time off

Job summary

Medline Industries, LP in Northfield, IL, seeks a Manager of Business Operations to lead analytics teams across textiles and environmental services. This hybrid role partners with senior leadership to drive data-driven insights, optimize inventory, forecast demand, and align operations with strategic priorities.

You will manage a domestic and overseas team, foster continuous process improvement, and ensure timely, high-quality analytical support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• At least 5 years of related experience or combination of experience and education.
• Experience managing people including hiring, developing, motivating, and directing staff.
• Experience identifying operational issues and implementing improvement strategies.
• Experience analyzing data to identify trends and drive results.
• Experience coordinating multiple projects with competing priorities.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team, creating and maintaining a motivated workforce, both domestic and overseas.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, offering strategic guidance and recommending innovative solutions.
• Responsible for developing and executing business operational strategy aligning with goals and priorities.
• Implement best practices for process improvement and operational expense optimization.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to ensure visibility to business performance across departments.
• Hiring staff, pay increases, performance reviews, training and development, workload estimation, deadlines, policy consistency.

Job description

Job Summary

Medline has an immediate opening for a Manager of Business Operations supporting our Textiles & Environmental Services divisions! This position will be based out of our Northfield, IL headquarters and will work on a hybrid model. The Manager of Business Operations is responsible for leading and managing a team of operations analysts and a team of operations specialists to deliver data-driven insights that support the organization’s strategic objectives. Business operations to include: inventory management, division analytics, forecast/demand planning, allocation management, and process improvement. This role involves working closely with leadership to inform decision-making, optimize business performance, and drive operational strategies and continuous process improvement. The Manager of Business Operations plays a crucial role in guiding the business operations analytics team and the operations specialist team to success while fostering a culture of excellence and ensuring the delivery of high-quality analytical support to various departments.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities:

• Build and lead a team, creating and maintaining a motivated workforce, both domestic and overseas. Provide leadership and guidance to BOA's and Managers, foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, offering strategic guidance and recommending innovative solutions to address their challenges and opportunities.
• Responsible for developing and executing business operational strategy aligning with business goals and priorities.
• Implement best practices for process improvement and operational expense optimization. Ensure new processes are in alignment with standardization focus of the organization.
• Collaborate with senior leadership among cross functional teams to ensure optimal visibility to business performance is in alignment with cross department needs.
• Hiring staff, recommending pay increases, performing performance reviews, training and development of staff, estimating personnel needs, assigning work, meeting completion dates, interpreting and ensuring consistent application of organizational policies.

Minimum Job Requirements

Education

- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, or related field.

Work Experience

- At least 5 years of related experience or combination of experience and education.
- Experience directly managing people including hiring, developing, motivating, and directing people as they work.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Experience identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.
• Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
• Experience controlling and coordinating concurrent projects, competing priorities and critical deadlines.
• Experience and skills in influencing, leading and directing individuals in multiple functional areas.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).

Preferred Job Qualifications

Work Experience

- Experience with SAP, SQL, and Tableau.

Medline Industries, LP, and its subsidiaries, offer a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

The anticipated salary range for this position:
$101,000.00 - $152,000.00 Annual

The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s location, education, experience, skills, and abilities. This role is bonus and/or incentive eligible. Medline will not pay less than the applicable minimum wage or salary threshold.

Our benefit package includes health insurance, life and disability, 401(k) contributions, paid time off, etc., for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average. For roles where employees work less than 30 hours per week, benefits include 401(k) contributions, paid time off, as well as access to the Employee Assistance Program, Employee Resource Groups and the Employee Service Corp. For a more comprehensive list of our benefits please click here .

We’re dedicated to creating a Medline where everyone feels they belong and can grow their career. We strive to do this by seeking diversity in all forms, acting inclusively, and ensuring that people have tools and resources to perform at their best. Explore our Belonging page here .

Medline Industries, LP is an equal opportunity employer. Medline evaluates qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, neurodivergence, protected veteran status, marital or family status, caregiver responsibilities, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.