Inbound Operations Manager (Days)
Cardinal Health · Lakeland, FL
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Production
- Base pay
- $98k–$135k
- Travel
- 10%
- Degree
- Preferred
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Pharma & life sciences
- Posted
- Today
The role in 30 seconds
A management production role at Cardinal Health (pharma & life sciences) in Lakeland, FL. Manages staff to ensure timely distribution and receipt of product while meeting distribution center standards of budget, policies, procedures, and quality.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree preferred
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma
- Base pay
- $98k–$135k
- Day to day
- about 10% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Production Engineer roles in Florida: typical posted base $104k–$140k. This one lists $98k–$135k.
Median of the low and high ends of 10 live postings that list pay, out of 34 production engineer openings in Florida, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 33 other live production postings in Florida.
- Base pay
- About 6% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $89k–$130k, from 6 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 44%
- Root cause 38%
- ✓ Lean 32%
- New product launch 26%
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This plant: Cardinal Health in Lakeland
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Accountabilities in this role
- ◆Manages staff to ensure timely distribution and receipt of product while meeting distribution center standards of budget, policies, procedures, and quality.
- ◆Monitors warehouse productivity, adheres to budget requirements, works towards obtaining distribution center programs and coordinating all necessary repairs.
- ◆Recommends and implements programs, policies, and strategies to increase production and efficient space utilization within the facility.
- ◆Implements and administers all policies and procedures.
- ◆Ensures quality service is provided to the customers, ensures prompt follow-through on customer correspondence related to shipment of merchandise and stock-on-hand.
- ◆Handles general employee inquiries and resolves concerns.
- ◆Responsible for supervisory and employee population development, training, coaching, counseling and performance appraisals.
- ◆Maintains positive employee relations.
- ◆Must be flexible with work schedule to be a visible leader and maximize employee interactions for a multi shift distribution operation.
- ◆Manages professional employees and supervisors; manages business support, technical and production staff
- ◆Has accountability for managing financial resources and inventory levels in excess of $230M.
- ◆Provides technical guidance to employees
- ◆Develops processes and procedures to implement functional strategies
- ◆Has in-depth expertise in own job family and knowledge of the related job families
- ◆Applies expertise to improve effectiveness and provide guidance to employees in own area
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor's degree highly preferred.
- ✓Lean Six Sigma (LSS) experience highly preferred.
- ✓3-5 years experience preferred
- ✓3+ supervisory/management skills preferred
- ✓Strong communication skills
- ✓Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office products
What is expected of you and others at this level
- ✓Manages department operations and supervises professional employees, frontline supervisors and/or business support staff
- ✓Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
- ✓Ensures employees operate within guidelines
- ✓Decisions have a short term impact on work processes, outcomes, and customers
- ✓Interacts with subordinates, peer customers and suppliers at various management levels may interact with senior management
- ✓Interactions normally involves resolution of issues related to operations and/or projects
- ✓Gains consensus from various parties involved
- ✓Travel required 10%
- ✓Responsible to be in charge in the absence of the Director
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Inbound Operations Manager(Days)
The Operations Manager, Inbound/Receiving is responsible for overseeing all inbound freight and receiving activities within the distribution or warehouse operation. This role ensures the safe, accurate, and timely receipt of products, manages receiving team performance, maintains inventory integrity, and drives operational efficiency. The Operations Manager partners with transportation, inventory control, and warehouse leadership to meet service, productivity, quality, and safety objectives while supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
Hours: Monday-Friday: 8:00am - 5:00pm(Some Flexibility)
Bonus eligible: Yes(10% Target)
Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.
- •Medical, dental and vision coverage
- •Paid time off plan
- •Health savings account (HSA)
- •401k savings plan
- •Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
- •Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
- •Short- and long-term disability coverage
- •Work-Life resources
- •Paid parental leave
- •Healthy lifestyle programs
The pay range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.
What Operations Management contributes to Cardinal Health
Warehouse Operations is responsible for performing/controlling a combination of manual or automated tasks necessary for the receipt, storage, and shipment of product. This may include functions of receiving, picking, packing, shipping, staging, transporting, storage, delivery, etc. Also responsible for the efficient flow of products from the point of product receipt from vendors to the shipment of products (via prescribed service parameters) to a variety of internal and external customers.