Vice President - Business Support

This position leads a functionally diverse team that acts as primary point of Operations contact for key internal business partners (Commercial Sales and Product Divisions) with an emphasis on operational planning for growth of non-Acute businesses, Leading and coordinating efforts for “vertical startups” of large and complex customer and capital project implementations and administrative support for the Operations function. This position reports to the SVP of Operational Excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Commercial Sales (primarily non-acute) to ensure appropriate analysis (financial and operational) is conducted for prospective customers, including assessing and building plans to support “non routine” customers requests.
• Partner with Product Divisions to clearly understand growth trajectory for “specialty divisions” that require special handling and/or storage needs and develop short and long range plans to ensure sufficient capacity ahead of business need.
• Act (collectively with the direct team) as the primary Operations representative for performing due diligence on operational capabilities of potential acquisition targets and clearly assess risks and opportunities for the business.
• Partner with Product Divisions and Vendor Management Team to drive improved customer experience and operational efficiencies.
• Lead Operations pre-acquisition integration planning and post-acquisition implementation activities, including – at times – interim leadership of acquired operations, as directed.
• Lead and coordinate planning and implementation efforts to ensure major customer implementations and realignments and major capital project implementations are executed with as close to zero operational disruption as possible.
• Provide organizational capability to support Operations corporate administrative needs ranging from executive support to analyzing purchasing and reconciling operational supplies and invoices for the network to managing related vendor relationships.
• Actively partner, engage and communicate with Operational leaders to disseminate business information and seek feedback from “line” leaders regarding plans and capabilities needed to support business growth.
• Cultivate an environment of dignity, respect, engagement and empowerment of team members that creates a high performance teamwork environment where all feel heard and valued through frequent communications, feedback loops and engagement and onboarding, training and development are best-in-class.
  
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 10+ years of experience in Supply Chain Operations, Program and/or Project Management
• Demonstrated experience driving continuous improvement in performance
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple priority initiatives for multiple stakeholders, simultaneously
• Demonstrated experience leading geographically dispersed teams and achieving results by leading leaders of teams
• Strong collaboration capabilities and demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority.
• End-to-end mindset that focuses on optimal outcomes for the company
• Exceptional communication skills to ensure clarity and alignment on priorities
• Strong executive presence engaging with peers, customers, suppliers and executive leaders
• Position requires ability to travel up to 33% of the time for business purposes
  
  
  

Benefits

• Medline Industries, LP, and its subsidiaries, offer a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
• Medline is committed to offering competitive benefits and a variety of choices to best meet the needs of you and your family. For employees scheduled to work at least 30 hours per week, this includes health and well-being, financial fitness, career development, paid time off and more. Employees scheduled to work less than 30 hours per week can participate in the 401(k) plan, access the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Resource Groups (ERG) and Medline Service Corps. For a more comprehensive list of our benefits, please click here [this takes you to the Alight pre-auth page].
  
  
  

Medline Industries, LP is an equal opportunity employer. Medline evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Every day, we’re focused on building a more diverse and inclusive company, one that recognizes, values and respects the differences we all bring to the workplace. From doing what’s right to delivering business results, together, we’re better. Explore our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion page.

Primary Location

US-IL-Mundelein