Operational Management Development Program Associate, Healthcare

>> My name is Isaac Stalzer. I'm currently with McKesson as an OMDP associate. It's really a development program, that's Operations Management Development Program and it's really broken down into three pieces. You'll start with, basically, it's a nine-month rotation period where you'll actually go through and get a hands-on experience about what we do in our distribution centers and learn how we actually operates. So, you'll know everything, for example, if you're in the warehouse, you'll learn how you're doing receiving. You might be in the office learning how we made gen inventory right with our DEA people, learning how we control our regulated products and so, it's kind of the first part of it. The second part is going to be with our greenbelt, Six Sigma green belt projects. So, as part of the OMDP program, you are tasked with running your own green belt project from the brainstorming phase all the way to fruition, so that's kind of going to be the second part. And the last part is going to be a leadership role that you're actually going through a lot of leadership training and you will go through anything from presentation skills to business writing and actually hands on leadership, situational leadership, crucial conversations. And that's really the three main parts of what I'm doing right now. Well, for the most part, a lot of what I'm doing this week is the green belt project focus, so when I'm coming in, the first thing I do is I clear my emails and that could be anything from, we need your help over in receiving, and we have an issue and something needs to be adjusted, to actually, okay, we're boiling down a project, these are the variables I need and kind of or start off that. That usually take me a couple of hours in the morning to figure out through, go through the emails, and trying to get everyone's feedback what they need and deliver that. After that, I'll actually go through and I'll meet with-- there's a black belt, Six Sigma has three levels. There's a green belt, a black belt, and a master black belt and each distribution center will have a black belt within its building and that will actually be guiding you during the project management phases. So, I spend a lot of time with him right now and actually going through and brainstorming on projects, identifying the scope and really the definition of what are you trying to fix or improve, and that will usually go a few hours as well. And after that we'll actually go through and whatever needs to be done for the project. In my case we were overriding queries right now in AS 400 and trying to identify what our measurables are and start gathering the data so that we can make some educated decisions.