Logistics and Warehouse Operations Manager (Bedford, MA)

Job Title Logistics and Warehouse Operations Manager (Bedford, MA) Job Description Logistics and Warehouse Operations Manager (Bedford, MA)   You will lead on-site warehouse operations and coordinate with third-party logistics (3PL) providers, ensuring safe, compliant, and efficient receiving, inventory control, fulfillment, and transportation. You will manage Warehouse Operators and drive inventory accuracy, quality, patient safety, service performance, and continuous improvement.   Your role: • Own end-to-end warehouse and transportation operations, including receiving, storage, inventory control, fulfillment, and outbound transportation, with a strong focus on quality, patient safety, efficiency, and regulatory compliance. • Lead warehouse teams and day-to-day operations, including staffing, training, performance management, career development, safe work practices, standard work, and accurate master and transactional data. • Manage 3PL and transportation providers from selection and onboarding through ongoing governance, ensuring contractual and SLA compliance, inventory accuracy, service quality, cost effectiveness, and continuous improvement. • Develop operational strategies, KPIs, forecasts, and capacity plans across warehouse, inventory, logistics, and transportation, balancing cost, capacity, service, sustainability, regulatory requirements, and operational risk. • Lead cross-functional optimization initiatives involving process standardization, automation, analytics, supply chain visibility, network improvements, and new operations or providers. Serves as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor to senior management on warehouse, logistics, transportation, inventory, and 3PL matters.   You’re the right fit if:   • You have 5+ years of progressive experience in supply chain, logistics, warehouse operations, transportation, physical distribution, or distribution management, with demonstrated leadership experience directly supervising warehouse or logistics personnel. • Your skills include inventory and warehouse operations management, materials management, inventory optimization, lean warehousing, supply chain management, 3PL management, logistics systems, data analysis, transport planning and scheduling, ERP/WMS systems, continuous improvement, project and KPI management, budget and risk management, and business/commercial acumen. • You have experience managing or coordinating third-party logistics (3PL) providers, including operational performance, service-level agreements, quality expectations, and inventory accuracy. • You earned a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Operations Management, or you have equivalent years of relevant experience. Bonus: Six Sigma Green Belt, Lean Certification, or equivalent continuous improvement certification. • You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position .    How we work together:   We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.   This is an onsite role.   About Philips:   We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.   • Learn more about our business . • Discover our rich and exciting hi