Senior Manager, Supply Planning

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Senior Manager, Supply Planning

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Plymouth, MN location in the Structural Heart Division.

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

The Senior Manager, Supply Planning is responsible for creating and meeting short and long-term business goals to support our customers and business requirements through balancing numerous conflicts and constantly changing elements, e.g. customer demand, inventory investment, production capabilities, changing business needs and strategies, regulatory requirements, technology changes and supplier capabilities. This role is responsible for driving the Supply Planning process for the Structural Heart business unit.

Opportunity for key talent to consider this role to learn the business and develop towards future Supply Chain Leadership roles in the business. This role will have solid visibility to Senior Management.

What You'll Work On: 

• Manages the development of production plans to support end customer sales, non-revenue demand, and finished goods changes.
• Manages finished goods inventory levels and safety stocks in support of end customer sales at the desired service levels, while maintaining the lowest inventory investment possible.
• Resolves product delivery conflicts with plans and prioritizes production schedules.
• Sets strategic and tactical direction for the organization to support business plans. Develops strategic improvement initiatives to meet long-range goals; assure implementation of these initiatives.
• Consolidates, reviews, and approves information required for plans and updates; presents to senior management. Ensures schedule commitments and financial goals are met.
• Manages resources, provides direction to staff, approves broad staffing decisions and develops the organization to ensure effectiveness.
• Translates inputs from technical meetings and Marketing into impact on short term and long-term raw material procurement strategies.
• Coordinate plans with R&D/Manufacturing/Marketing to ensure adequate inventory levels are reached prior to market entry.
• Communicates with senior Abbott management and suppliers or executive management.
• Represents Abbott with external agencies.
• Works with peers in Purchasing, Manufacturing, Distribution, and Quality to support production.
• Talent development – Attract and retain a diverse, highly qualified staff.  Provide ongoing performance feedback. Sets goals which align to department, division and company goals.  Manages te execution of those goals through coaching and mentoring.
• Strong leadership skills - Build positive relationships with team and cross functional partners to ensure business results are met or exceeded
• Sustainable organization – create a high-performance organization that meets strategic and operational goals by instituting a culture of learning and motivating others to succeed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Finance, Engineering or related field
• 10 years’ minimum experience in people management with demonstrated abilities as a manager
• 10 years’ minimum experience in project management
• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization
• Ability to travel up to 25%, including internationally

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience in medical device
• Master’s degree or MBA
• Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross-division business unit model

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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $129,300.00 – $258,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

• stakeholder management
• sustainable organization
• inventory management
• supply chain management
• supply management
• strategic planning
• demand forecasting
• supply network planning
• demand planning
• supply planning
• coaching and mentoring
• medical device industry knowledge
• resource management
• production planning
• project management