Job Description

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Procurement–Supply Chain, the Senior Director, Logistics & Distribution serves as the enterprise leader responsible for the design, integration, and execution of efficient, cost-effective inventory management and logistics strategies across Guthrie. This role provides strategic and operational oversight for system-wide supply chain distribution functions, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, financial stewardship, quality standards, and service excellence across all clinical and ancillary service lines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strategicleadership and develop tactical plans for logistics, inventory management, and distribution operations across Guthrie facilities and campuses.
• Oversee perpetual and periodic inventory management processes supporting all departments, including surgical, nursing, diagnostic, procedural, and ancillary areas.
• Lead, mentor, and develop managers, supervisors, and staff to ensure high performance, engagement, and operational consistency.
• Monitor operational and financial performance metrics; develop and implement action plans to achieve targeted outcomes and efficiencies.
• Ensure fiscal accountability through budget oversight, cost control, and corrective action planning as needed.
• Manages relationships with key executive stakeholders and collaborates with clinical and operational leaders to design and sustain compliant, customer-focused materials management processes.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and internal consultant for materials management systems, policies, procedures, and issue resolution.
• Represent Logistics & Distribution on organizational committees, projects, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Promote Guthrie’s mission, vision, values, and culture of continuous improvement.
  

Leadership Competencies:

Strategic Thinking: Ability to align logistics and supply chain strategies with enterprise objectives and evolving healthcare demands.

Operational Excellence: Strong command of process improvement, inventory optimization, and performance measurement.

Financial Acumen: Demonstrated understanding of budgeting, cost analysis, and fiscal accountability.

People Leadership: Proven capability to lead through influence, develop leaders, and manage complex employee relations matters.

Decision-Making & Judgment: Ability to assess complex situations, apply policies, and make sound decisions in dynamic environments.

Communication & Collaboration: Effective communicator who partners across disciplines and levels of the organization.

Experience:

Required

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in logistics, materials management, or supply chain operations.
• At least 5 years of leadership experience managing managers and/or supervisors.
• Demonstrated knowledge of accounting principles, cost analysis, standard costing, statistical control, and process improvement methodologies.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and healthcare supply chain information systems.

Preferred

• Healthcare supply chain experience encompassing procurement, receiving, distribution, replenishment, and equipment management.

  Education:

  Required: Bachelor’s Degree
  
  Preferred: Master’s Degree

  Essential Functions:

• Direct and oversee all logistics and distribution operations, ensuring quality, efficiency, and regulatory compliance.
• Allocate staffing resources appropriately to meet operational demands; support leaders with scheduling, hiring, training, and performance management.
• Plan, coordinate, and administer operational, financial, administrative, and technical functions of materials management.
• Serve as an operational and technical resource for issue resolution, education, and system optimization.
• Participate in quality improvement activities, including identification of improvement opportunities, data collection, and quality team engagement.

• Perform other duties as required to support organizational objectives.

  Other Duties:

• Other duties as assigned

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Joining the Guthrie team allows you to become a part of a tradition of excellence in health care. In all areas and at all levels of Guthrie, you’ll find staff members who have committed themselves to serving the community.

The Guthrie Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Guthrie Clinic is a non-profit, integrated, practicing physician-led organization in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our multi-specialty group practice of more than 500 physicians and 302 advanced practice providers offers 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 22 communities. Guthrie Medical Education Programs include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Orthopedic Surgery Residency, as well as Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship programs. Guthrie is also a clinical campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.