Warehouse Lead

Are you ready to design and run a digitally enabled warehouse that keeps a world-class Singapore manufacturing site moving hour by hour? This role leads the full materials journey—from raw material receipt and sampling to in-plant dispensing, WIP storage, and final product distribution—so life-changing medicines reach patients without delay. You will set the direction and pace for a safe, compliant, and cost-effective operation that underpins full-scale manufacturing. Working within a connected supply chain network, you will champion GxP, unlock automation and WMS capabilities, and build a high-performing team that turns material flow into a strategic advantage. Can you transform compliance, safety, and data into outcomes that improve service, reduce risk, and increase speed? 3. Accountabilities: E2E Strategy: Develop and implement a warehousing strategy aligned to the plant’s production schedule and global supply objectives, ensuring capacity, service, and cost targets are met. Daily Operations Excellence: Govern day-to-day activities across receiving, de-palletization, sampling support, temperature-controlled and ambient storage, and outbound logistics to maintain flow and on-time performance. Capacity and Layout Optimization: Optimize warehouse footprint, layout, and material handling to secure space for raw materials, consumables, WIP, and finished goods as volumes scale. Regulatory and Audit Leadership: Ensure adherence to FDA,EMA, HSA and internal QMS requirements; serve as warehousing SME during inspections and drive audit readiness at all times. EHS Leadership: Embed a zero-accident mind-set through training, standards, and equipment maintenance; verify safe behaviors and systems that protect people and product. Inventory Integrity: Implement cycle counting and wall-to-wall physical inventory practices to achieve high inventory accuracy and rapid reconciliation. Cold Chain Stewardship: Protect temperature-controlled regimes with monitored, alarmed systems; lead swift mitigation and root-cause actions for any excursions. Loss Prevention and Turns: Partner with Procurement and Quality to minimize write-offs and manage rejected or expired goods; improve inventory turns and reduce variances. Digital Systems Ownership: Serve as business owner for WMS and ERP (e.g., SAP/S4HANA), ensuring data integrity, seamless manufacturing integration, and reliable targets. Automation Deployment: Lead or support AGVs, AS/RS, RFID and related technologies to increase throughput, reduce human error, and standardize processes. People Leadership: Build, mentor, and upskill warehouse managers, supervisors, and specialists; foster an inclusive, accountable culture that delivers results. Financial Stewardship: Own OPEX and CAPEX for warehousing; identify and complete cost improvements without compromising safety, quality, or compliance. 4. Essential Skills/Experience: Degree level qualification; Experience in managing teams; Experience in logistics and/or distribution; Knowledge of supply chain management principles 5. Desirable Skills/Experience: Professional qualification in distribution; Experience of project work under tight deadlines and service levels across different technology bases 6. Why AstraZeneca: Here, science with purpose meets real-world execution. You will work with diverse, cross-functional teams who bring different perspectives into the same room to solve complex manufacturing challenges and get medicines to patients faster. We pair modern tools—data-rich systems, automation, and advanced analytics—with a collaborative culture that values curiosity, constructive feedback, and accountability. Ambition is matched by support: we back decisive leaders who take hard-working risks, and we value kindness alongside drive. Your impact will be visible in reliable supply, smoother inspections, safer operations, and the confidence that comes from enabling breakthrough therapies to reach more people worldwide. 7. Call to Action: Step into a pivotal leadership role and turn Singapore’s warehouse operations into a strategic engine for speed, quality, and patient impact—share your credentials and start the conversation today.