Stockroom and Inventory Management Operations Lead

4 weeks ago

Boston, United States Ginkgo Bioworks Full time

Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe's growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with the R&D technical, Procurement, Facility Management, Suppliers and Finance teams as well as all cross-functional teams to understand Ginkgo's business requirements to build and implement processes, systems and strategies to manage Lab supplies stockroom and inventory management operations to ensure uninterrupted supply of products to labs.

Your strategic thinking, analytical skills, and stockroom and inventory management expertise will help drive decision-making and ensure that short, medium, and long-term goals are achieved. Additionally, your passion for customer service will drive you and allow you to thrive in a fast-paced environment and work effectively within cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement Lab stockroom and inventory management processes, tools and strategies to ensure Lab supplies and services are available uninterrupted to deliver Ginkgo's mission
  • Develop best practices, policies and controls to optimize stockroom and inventory management operations
  • Liaise with the R&D team to develop plans to stock right product mix, levels and operational procedures
  • Responsible to develop and manage demand planning and forecasting process by collaborating with internal stakeholders, data analytics and suppliers
  • Manage internal ordering processes for lab consumables to optimize inventory and distribution.
  • Optimize and effectively manage Ginkgo internal and external space, warehouse locations and network
  • Manage third party supplier relationships, governance to perform stockroom and inventory management operations.
  • Perform risk assessment to categorize high risk suppliers/items, and develop mitigation strategies
  • Assess current and future operational risks and translate those into strategies, capabilities, best practices, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Develop tools and data to drive continuous improvements and cost savings opportunities

Required Experience and Capabilities:

  • 8+ years of experience in managing stockroom and inventory management operations, systems and processes
  • Experience in designing and implementing stockroom and inventory management business processes
  • Strong knowledge of continuous improvement, PM methodologies and lean tools required.
  • Ability to create and manage a value stream plan and make the right decisions based on the data.
  • Comfortable with fast pace, competing priorities, being able to apply a set of tools or a framework to an ambiguous problem by identifying key metrics, mapping the process, performing root cause analysis. Successful managing efficiency and productivity metrics.
  • Extremely organized and analytical, heavy on delivery, and data driven analysis.
  • Strong ability to manage multiple projects concurrently with sound business acumen.
  • Excellent communication skills, able to communicate clearly and succinctly in writing, presentations and verbally to multiple levels within the organization. Ability to flex between the strategic and tactical as necessary.
  • Demonstrated commitment, self-motivation, and drive.
  • Enthusiasm about being a part of Ginkgo's mission.

Desired Experience and Capabilities:

12+ years of experience in managing stockroom and inventory management operations, systems and processes

To learn more about Ginkgo, visitwww.ginkgobioworks.com/press/or check out some curated press below:
  • What is it really like to take your company public via a SPAC? One Boston biotech shares its journey (Fortune)
  • Ginkgo Bioworks resizes the definition of going big in biotech, raising $2.5B in a record SPAC deal that weighs in with a whopping $15B-plus valuation (Endpoints News)
  • Ginkgo Bioworks CEO on scaling up Covid-19 testing: 'If we try, we can win' (CNBC)
  • Ginkgo raises $70 million to ramp up COVID-19 testing for employers, universities (Boston Globe)
  • Ginkgo Bioworks Redirects Its Biotech Platform to Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)
  • Ginkgo Bioworks Provides Support on Process Optimization to Moderna for COVID-19 Response (PRNewswire)
  • The Life Factory: Synthetic Organisms From This $1.4 Billion Startup Will Revolutionize Manufacturing (Forbes)
  • Synthetic Bio Pioneer Ginkgo Raises $290 Million in New Funding (Bloomberg)
  • Ginkgo Bioworks raises $350 million fund for biotech spinouts (Reuters)
  • Can This Company Convince You to Love GMOs? (The Atlantic)
We also feel that it's important to point out the obvious here - there's a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and that needs to change. Our goal is to help drive that change. Ginkgo is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team. Our culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work with people from all walks of life. We're developing a powerful biological engineering platform, so we must remain mindful of the many ways our technology can - and will - impact people around the world. We care about how our platform is used, and having a diverse team to build it gives us the best chance that it's something we'll be proud of as it continues to grow. Therefore, it's critical that we incorporate the diverse voices and visions of all those who play a role in the future of biology. It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees, employment applicants, and EOE disability/vet. Privacy Notice I understand that I am applying for employment with Ginkgo Bioworks and am being asked to provide information in connection with my application. I further understand that Ginkgo gathers this information through a third-party service provider and that Ginkgo may also use other service providers to assist in the application process. Ginkgo may share my information with such third-party service providers in connection with my application and for the start of employment. Ginkgo will treat my information in accordance with Ginkgo's Privacy Policy. By submitting this job application, I am acknowledging that I have reviewed and agree to Ginkgo's Privacy Policy as well as the privacy policies of the third-party service providers used by Ginkgo's associated with the application process.

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