Shipping Manager

About Us

At The Pharmacy Hub , we collaborate with pharmaceutical brands, manufacturers, health brands, telemedicine providers, and healthcare companies to deliver essential products directly to patients. Our expertise allows us to seamlessly distribute pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other healthcare products to consumers, ensuring greater accessibility and convenience.

About Us

At The Pharmacy Hub, we collaborate with pharmaceutical brands, manufacturers, health brands, telemedicine providers, and healthcare companies to deliver essential products directly to patients. Our expertise allows us to seamlessly distribute pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other healthcare products to consumers, ensuring greater accessibility and convenience.

Position Summary

The Shipping Manager owns end-to-end shipping and fulfillment execution across The Pharmacy Hub's Davie and Miami Gardens sites, running a 24/7 operation that ships temperature-sensitive, regulated pharmaceutical products to patients on tight, often same-day, delivery windows.

This is a builder's role, not a caretaker role. The person in this seat is expected to build and level up the shipping team — hiring, training, setting standards, and raising the performance bar of the staff already in place — while simultaneously replacing informal habits with documented SOPs, defined KPIs, and shift-over-shift accountability. Success means the operation runs to a standard, at every site, on every shift, whether or not the manager is on the floor.

The role carries real regulatory weight. Shipments are subject to FDA, DEA, DOT, and HIPAA requirements, move under validated cold chain conditions, and frequently involve inventory with short expiration dating that must be managed on a FEFO basis. The Shipping Manager owns carrier strategy and day-to-day carrier performance across FedEx, UPS, and our courier and regional partners, and is accountable for on-time delivery and cost per shipment.

This is a hands-on floor role, not a desk role. When volume spikes, a shift is short-staffed, or a cutoff is at risk, the Shipping Manager is expected to get on the forklift, work a pack station, or stage and load alongside the team until the work is done. Candidates who see that as beneath the title are not a fit for this seat.

This position reports directly to the Executive Head of Operations and directly manages shipping supervisors, shippers, packers, and runners across both locations. Team structure is expected to evolve as the shipping organization scales.

Core Responsibilities

Multi-Site, 24/7 Operations Leadership (~25%)

Own daily shipping and fulfillment execution across the Davie and Miami Gardens locations, including nights and weekends, on a 24/7 coverage model

Build and maintain shift schedules, coverage plans, and escalation paths so every shift has clear ownership and no site runs uncovered

Ensure consistent execution site to site — the same process, the same standard, the same documentation regardless of location or shift

Run daily and weekly operating rhythms (shift handoffs, huddles, performance reviews) that surface problems before they reach the customer

Work the floor directly when the operation needs it — operate the forklift and pallet jack, pack and stage orders, and load trucks during volume spikes, staffing shortages, or at-risk cutoffs

Team Building, Development & Performance (~20%)

Build the shipping team: recruit, hire, onboard, and train shippers, packers, runners, and supervisors

Raise the standard of the existing team through structured training, certification on SOPs, clear performance expectations, and direct coaching

Develop supervisors capable of running their own shifts independently, and create bench depth at every critical position

Manage performance directly — recognize strong performers, address gaps quickly, and hold the team accountable to documented standards

SOPs, KPIs & Process Design (~15%)

Write, implement, and maintain SOPs across receiving, staging, picking, packing, cold chain packout, dispatch, returns, and exception handling

Define and operate the department's KPI set — on-time dispatch, on-time delivery, order accuracy, temperature excursion rate, damages, cost per shipment, productivity per labor hour — with dashboards and a fixed review cadence

Convert manual, undocumented, or person-dependent processes into repeatable, trainable, auditable procedures

Lead continuous improvement initiatives that reduce errors, cycle time, and shipping cost without sacrificing compliance

Regulatory Compliance & Cold Chain (~15%)

Ensure shipping operations comply with FDA, DEA, DOT (including hazmat and dry ice handling), and HIPAA requirements

Own cold chain execution end to end: qualified packaging configurations, pack-out procedures by lane and season, temperature monitoring, excursion investigation, and corrective action

Maintain audit-ready documentation, chain of custody, and records for controlled and temperature-sensitive shipments; serve as the shipping point of contact during regulatory and client audits

Partner with Pharmacy Operations, QA/QC, and Compliance to ensure shipping practices reflect current regulatory and client requirements

Carrier Management & On-Time Delivery (~10%)

Own relationships and day-to-day coordination with FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, regional carriers, and same-day courier partners

Manage carrier performance against service-level commitments; run claims, service failures, and escalations to resolution

Design routing and service-level strategy by lane and product type to hit same-day and next-day delivery commitments at the lowest defensible cost

Support carrier rate discussions, pickup scheduling, cutoff times, and capacity planning around volume peaks

Inventory, Short-Dated Stock & Cross-Functional Coordination (~10%)

Manage shipping-side inventory accuracy: packaging and cold chain materials, consumables, and finished product staged for dispatch

Operate FEFO discipline on inventory with short expiration dating; monitor dating exposure and coordinate with Procurement, Pharmacy Operations, and Finance to minimize expiry write-offs

Use inventory and shipping systems as the system of record; maintain clean data, cycle counts, and reconciliation of shipping-related inventory

Coordinate with Billing/Invoicing on order details, with packaging suppliers on material availability, and directly with major client accounts on shipment status and escalations

Remaining ~5% reserved for administrative tasks and training.

How Success Is Measured

On-time dispatch and on-time delivery rates, including same-day commitments, at both sites

Shipping accuracy and rework/reship rate

Cold chain performance: temperature excursion rate and time to close excursion investigations

Compliance outcomes: zero avoidable FDA/DEA/DOT/HIPAA findings; audit-ready documentation maintained year-round

SOP coverage and staff certification against those SOPs; KPI dashboards live and reviewed on a fixed cadence

Team health: coverage on all shifts at both sites, reduced turnover, supervisors running shifts without escalation

Cost per shipment and expiry-related write-offs trending down

Qualifications

Required

5+ years in shipping, distribution, or fulfillment operations, including 3+ years managing teams; supervisor-of-supervisors experience strongly preferred

Demonstrated experience running multiple locations and 24/7 operations , including shift coverage design and night/weekend accountability

Proven track record building a team — hiring, training, developing supervisors, and raising the performance standard of an existing group

Hands-on experience writing and implementing SOPs and defining and operating KPI/performance dashboards

Working knowledge of FDA , DEA , DOT (including hazmat/dry ice), and HIPAA requirements as they apply to shippin