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Sigma Healthcare

About Sigma

Play a unique role in supporting healthy communities.

Sigma Healthcare is a leading Australian full line wholesale and distribution business to community and hospital pharmacy. Sigma also has an expanding presence in the hospital pharmacy services, contract logistics, dose administration aids and other healthcare service adjacencies.

We have one of the largest pharmacy networks in Australia, with over 500 branded and independent pharmacies including some of Australia’s best-known pharmacy brands like Amcal and Discount Drug Stores. We offer a leading range of quality as well as affordable private and exclusive label products through our pharmacy network.

 

Overview

Industry
Transport, shipping & logistics
Employees
501-1,000
Women in the organisation
65%
Open jobs
8

Benefits

Explore the benefits Sigma Healthcare has to offer and discover if they are the right company for you

Strategy
Formalised policy related to flexible working arrangements in place
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Flexible work options offered:
Flexibility typeAvailability
Compressed working week (e.g. 38 hour week worked over 4 days instead of 5)Individual needs considered
Flexible start and finish timesRole / team dependent
Job sharing arrangementsAll employees
Part-time contractsAll employees
Rostered days offRole / team dependent
Time-off in lieu of overtimeRole / team dependent
Work from anywhere (remote working) optionsRole / team dependent
Strategy
Open to candidates discussing flexible working arrangements during an interview
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About us

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About Sigma

Play a unique role in supporting healthy communities.

Sigma Healthcare is a leading Australian full line wholesale and distribution business to community and hospital pharmacy. Sigma also has an expanding presence in the hospital pharmacy services, contract logistics, dose administration aids and other healthcare service adjacencies.

We have one of the largest pharmacy networks in Australia, with over 500 branded and independent pharmacies including some of Australia’s best-known pharmacy brands like Amcal and Discount Drug Stores. We offer a leading range of quality as well as affordable private and exclusive label products through our pharmacy network.

At Sigma, we believe healthy partnerships support healthy communities. By supporting pharmacists to be innovative, professional service providers, we help them to attain their business goals and support their patients and communities.

From modest beginnings in Melbourne in 1912, the company has grown into a vibrant, nationwide network servicing community and hospital pharmacy. We are proud of our role in helping to make pharmacy services and medicines accessible for all Australians.

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When you join Sigma Healthcare, you join an Australian success story with over 112 years of proud history and you become part of a business that plays a unique role in supporting healthy communities.

What makes us a great place to work

We are building a high-performing team and are always looking for talented individuals. Sigma Healthcare offers a wide range of career opportunities. From Corporate functions such as Technology, Finance, HR, Legal, Marketing, Merchandising, Customer Service, Sales, Project Management and Supply Chain, to Operational roles across our large distribution centre network and our subsidiary businesses medical devices and consumables, dose administration aids and pharmacy. 

We offer competitive salary packages and great employee benefits.

Our Values and Behaviours:

At Sigma, our values and behaviours underpin our culture. We achieve the best outcomes for our team and our customers when our actions reflect:

  • We are obsessed with delighting our customers 
  • We act with honesty, integrity and respect 
  • We are resilient and focused 
  • We deliver on our goals 

Diversity and Inclusion

Sigma is committed to creating a workplace that values and respects the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce. We appoint our team based on their capability, regardless of gender identity, age, race, ethnic origin, marital status, sexual preference, or disabilities.

Flexible working arrangements

Team members have the ability to embrace flexible work arrangements (depending on their role) from part to full time hours, hybrid working, accessing a range of leave options, variable start and finish times and parental leave arrangements. If you are interested in flexible working arrangements, please ask.

Customer-centricity

We work collaboratively to build long term relationships that reward partners, benefit consumers and support communities.  Our focus is to help our partners grow their businesses and achieve success.

We are here to serve our communities by ensuring Australians have access to the full range of PBS medicines, via community pharmacies and hospital pharmacies, regardless of where they live.  To help shape the future of delivering pharmacy care in Australia, we work together with our suppliers and customers to continuously implement value-added, cost-effective wholesaling and distribution solutions.

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Health and Wellbeing

Our health and wellbeing programs are aimed at improving team members health, both mentally and physically. We do this by offering a range of resources, services and tools through our Sum of Wellbeing app, our Employee Assistance program, influenza vaccination program, and various other programs offered throughout the year.

Developing Your Career

One of our initiatives within the Sigma Diversity and Inclusion plan involves a more structured program to support developing the capability of female leaders at Sigma. The Women in Leadership Program includes participation in a masterclass with women from other organisations, and group coaching sessions with the Sigma cohort where the learnings and actions from the masterclass are reinforced and experiences are shared.

Interested to find out more? Click on the jobs tab above, we’d love to hear from you.

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