Inventory Deployment Planner - Nutrition - Columbus, OH

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Inventory Deployment Planner

Working at Abbott

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Columbus, OH location in the Nutrition Division.

Primary Function / Primary Goals / Objectives:

The primary responsibility of the Inventory Deployment Planner is to plan and execute the movement of product through a multi-tiered distribution network to support customer demand at each shipping site.  This function includes collaborating and managing relationships with Production Planning, Third Party Manufacturing, Quality Systems, Customer Service, Demand Planning, Transportation, Warehousing, among other departments to ensure product is produced, released, and positioned as needed to support customer demand, maintain customer fill rate goals, support budgetary goals, and drive network efficiencies to reduce cost and increase service.

What You’ll Work On

• Analyze data inputs from multiple sources to plan and execute the efficient movement of product through a multi-tiered distribution network to enable customer order fulfillment and minimize the risk of cuts at each site.
• Collaborate with Production Planning, Quality Systems, Customer Service, Demand Planning, Transportation, Warehousing, among other departments to provide end to end process oversight and input ensuring inventory is produced, released, and positioned to support demand and maintain customer fill rate goals.
• Compile and assess available data sources and communicate all product availability risk and supply related issues to management and impacted areas. Liaise with relevant departments to make recommendations on the best solution for the business to ensure product is available to the customers.
• Micromanage product shortage situations, working with applicable departments to reduce negative customer impacts. 
• Coordinate with all Logistics teams to ensure loads are meeting expected on time performance, manage system order dates, and communicate any customer service risks accordingly.
• Responsible for identifying opportunities for continuous improvements in the logistic processes.
• Review and update SOPs to ensure accuracy.
• Responsible for analyzing and taking necessary action to maintain inventory balances of managed SKUs across all network sites ensure effective usage of inventory supporting order fulfillment goals and preventing E&O risk.
• Maintain accuracy of Planning information in ERP system
• Partners with key stakeholders to minimize and dispose of slow moving, obsolete, and expiring inventory.
• Safeguard the environment and facilitate a safe and h