Senior Logistics Manager

GE HealthCare; Arlington Heights (IL); On-site; USD 123,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision benefits

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Job summary

GE HealthCare is seeking a seasoned logistics leader to drive end-to-end transportation and supply chain strategy, ensuring on-time delivery and regulatory compliance for pharmaceutical diagnostics products. You will lead a team, optimize processes, and manage costs while collaborating across functions to improve efficiency.

The role requires strong SAP capabilities, experience with regulated shipments, and the ability to operate with autonomy in a fast-paced healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 8 years logistics experience, pharma experience preferred
• Proven experience managing time-critical and highly regulated shipments
• Hands-on experience with radioactive materials handling, ensuring safety/regulatory compliance
• Strong SAP expertise in order management, shipment coordination, inventory tracking, and logistics operations

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead end-to-end logistics solutions to achieve on-time pickup and delivery
• Manage logistics costs to meet budgets and operating plans
• Direct people management including staffing and performance development
• Lead small projects and drive cross-functional collaboration in supply chain

Skills

Logistics management

SAP

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain/Logistics/Business

Tools

SAP

Job description

Job Description Summary

Drive the end-to-end transportation and logistics strategy that keeps critical products and services moving efficiently across the supply chain. This role combines operational leadership with technical expertise, empowering the individual to optimize processes, solve complex logistical challenges, and deliver exceptional service to customers and suppliers. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, this position has the opportunity to shape workflows, improve efficiency, and make a measurable impact on business performance.

Job Description Summary

Drive the end-to-end transportation and logistics strategy that keeps critical products and services moving efficiently across the supply chain. This role combines operational leadership with technical expertise, empowering the individual to optimize processes, solve complex logistical challenges, and deliver exceptional service to customers and suppliers. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, this position has the opportunity to shape workflows, improve efficiency, and make a measurable impact on business performance.

Our Pharmaceutical Diagnostics (PDx) business is the number one global supplier of contrast media and molecular imaging agents used to enhance medical imaging exams. Used throughout all major disease area diagnostic and treatment pathways, PDx products support three patients every second around the world.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop and lead end-to-end logistics solutions to achieve required on-time pick up & delivery of goods. Manage Logistics Costs to meet budgets and Op Plans.
• Includes direct people management responsibility including staffing and performance development. Utilizes in-depth knowledge of a technical discipline and analytical thinking and technical experience to execute policy/strategy.
• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market
• Uses some judgment and has some ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters to address more complicated manufacturing processes with technical variety and/or interdependent production cycles. Uses technical experience and analytical thinking. Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own teams to arrive at decisions.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with low risks and resource requirements. Explains information; developing skills to bring team members to consensus around topics within field. Conveys performance expectations and may handle sensitive issues.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, or a related field with a minimum of 8 years of logistics experience, including significant experience within the pharmaceutical industry; or a high school diploma/GED with at least 10 years of relevant logistics experience.
• Proven experience managing time-critical and highly regulated shipments, preferably within airline, healthcare, or pharmaceutical logistics environments.
• Hands-on experience with the transportation and handling of radioactive materials, ensuring compliance with all applicable safety and regulatory requirements.
• Strong SAP expertise with extensive experience in order management, shipment coordination, inventory tracking, and logistics operations.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership –always with unyielding integrity.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

For U.S. based positions only, the pay range for this position is $123,200.00-$184,800.00 Annual. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including skills, qualifications, experience and location.

In addition, this position may also be eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). GE HealthCare offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement.

Additional Information

GE HealthCare offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation.

GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.

Relocation Assistance Provided: No