Robin Hooker

Director, Healthcare Sector Marketing
UPS

Robin Hooker is responsible for developing and executing UPS’s healthcare marketing strategy to serve the unique logistics needs of the healthcare sector focusing on creating special capabilities and solutions that bring value to the healthcare supply chain.

Hooker and his team formulate healthcare solutions designed serve manufacturers, distributors, providers, labs and clinical research organizations, and dispensers to leverage UPS’s healthcare logistics expertise to improve efficiency. Hooker focuses on solutions that leverage UPS’s expanding distribution network, technology, inventory management and expertise in handling healthcare products while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Prior to his current assignment, Hooker served as Director of Global Strategy, Healthcare Logistics, where he coordinated the UPS Pain in the Chain Survey which focused on the top issues, strategies and insights facing healthcare supply chain executives. In addition to being involved in producing the UPS Healthcare Forum, he also shaped UPS’s ongoing healthcare logistics strategy and tracked the financial performance of the sector. Hooker held previous positions in Marketing and Finance for UPS in Dallas, Nashville, Seattle, and Sacramento where he started his career.

Hooker has been with UPS for over 26 years and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from California State University Sacramento.

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April 29: Global Distribution Network & Inventory Management Optimization

Friday, March 4th, 2016

11:55 Innovation Spotlight: Pain In The Chain: Growing Pains And Optimization Strategies Leveraged By Medical Device Supply Chain Leaders

UPS is now in its seventh year of conducting the annual healthcare supply chain survey—The Pain in the Chain. Learn how industry decision-makers reveal their future plans and supply chain strategies—revealing how healthcare challenges have shifted over time and how the most successful supply chains are grappling with risk, and complexity and successfully navigating the course. Executives are dealing with entering new markets with increasingly strict regulations. Attaining balanced successes across supply chains metrics—while pursuing gains in emerging markets--can be difficult. New insights show that the most successful companies are turning to logistics and distribution partnerships to better optimize their intricate, elongated supply chains. Gain a glimpse into the growing trends and insights.