Team Leader, Warehouse

At AliveDx, we empower diagnostic insights, transform patient care, and innovate for life. With over 30-years in in-vitro diagnostics, we put the health of patients first by creating innovative solutions designed for faster diagnostic results. Alba–– our blood bank reagents portfolio–– and MosaiQ®–– one of the first multiplexing and multimodality automated testing platforms––are designed to make labs more efficient and clinical decision-making more effective. Our journey started as Alba Bioscience, and later, Quotient. Today, as AliveDx, we innovate for life.

Team Leader, Warehouse

AliveDx is recruiting for a Team Leader to join the Warehouse team based near Edinburgh. As Team Leader, you will lead and coordinate the day-to-day warehouse operations, ensuring the safe, accurate and efficient receipt, storage, handling and movement of inventory. You will play a key role in ensuring the right materials are available at the right time to support manufacturing and customer requirements.

The role is a full-time, permanent position working 37.5 hours per week.

YOUR MISSION

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Lead and coordinate daily warehouse and inventory operations, ensuring a safe, efficient, compliant and customer-focused service
• Provide leadership to the warehouse team, including workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, training, development, performance management and employee engagement.
• Ensure robust inventory control through stock management, cycle counting, reconciliation and effective inventory governance.
• Manage and monitor warehouse KPIs and operational performance, identifying issues and implementing corrective actions where required.
• Develop and continuously improve warehouse processes, layouts, storage solutions, systems and workflows to improve efficiency, quality and service.
• Maintain a high level of audit readiness and represent warehouse operations during internal and external audits, ensuring findings are addressed effectively and within agreed timescales.
• Ensure warehouse activities comply with GMP, GDP, GxP, Health & Safety, Quality Management Systems and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Work collaboratively with Production, Procurement, Quality, Supply Chain and other stakeholders to optimise material flow and warehouse performance.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives, including Lean, Six Sigma, 5S and GEMBA, to drive operational excellence.

YOUR COMPETENCIES

• Demonstrable experience in warehouse operations, including experience leading and developing people.
• Strong knowledge and experience of inventory management, stock control and cycle counting processes.
• Experience working with ERP and/or WMS platforms and a strong understanding of business inventory controls.
• Experience of transportation, third-party logistics and warehouse management.
• Proven experience of process optimisation, workflow improvement and operational excellence initiatives.
• Experience working within a regulated environment, ideally with exposure to GMP, GDP or wider GxP requirements.
• Excellent planning, organisation and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage competing operational demands.
• The ability to build effective relationships and influence stakeholders across Production, Procurement, Quality and Supply Chain.
• Knowledge or experience within transfusion diagnostics, medical devices or manufacturing would be advantageous, as would an understanding of FDA and ISO 13485 requirements.

WHAT WE OFFER

• A highly dynamic and growing environment.
• An opportunity to live your passion for intrapreneurial mindset, where cultivating innovation and customer centricity are at the heart of everything we do.
• A flexible working environment where applicable and a range of core and flexible benefits ranging from private medical cover, life assurance, additional annual leave, cycle to work, technology, experience days and access to marketplace discounts.

Interested? We look forward to receiving your application.

AliveDx is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals regardless of nationality, sex, disability, region/belief, sexual orientation or age. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on competences, performance and business needs.