Senior Specialist, Contract Management and Delegation of Purchasing Authority

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:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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 may work out of our Willis Tower, Chicago, IL or our Abbott Park location. 

The Business Excellence (BEx) Team sets global procurement strategies and enables supporting processes, tools, and policies. BEx team members apply source to pay best practices and enabling technology knowledge to guide Abbott towards a best-in-class organization. The team members are highly visible and collaborative across Abbott divisions, supply base and business stakeholders globally.

The Business Excellence Senior Specialist will be leading the Contract Management Function supporting stakeholders in developing and driving best practices and continuous improvement across people, process and technology within the contract management function.  This role will be focused on maturing the contract management and repositories within key markets with the vision of expanding the maturity model globally. While the immediate focus will be on simplifying and aligning the contract signature process and reposition, the individual will have a long-term target to support continuous improvement and special projects globally.

What You'll Work On:

• Support Global Procurement Services and Divisional stakeholders in developing simplistic and clear contracting guidelines in collaboration with Legal. This includes developing long-term roadmap to enhance defining the contracting process and leading organization change management to educate stakeholders on the contracting guidelines.

• Provide strategic and tactical guidelines to the Contract Center of Excellence to ensure the available repositories are robust, accurate, and maintained as needed daily.

• Develop relationships with stakeholders and Legal to understand and develop contract management and repository targets and maturity maps globally.

• Support the refresh of legal contract management and contracting training for Purchasing Professionals globally. As contract templates require training, coordinate with Legal and stakeholders to roll out training.

• Lead the continuous improvement and on-going development of the contract management function within a Source to Pay Technology Platform and/or available technologies.

• Lead the expansion of the US contract repository into additional areas of the business.

• Support Audit requests (e.g., pulling contracts, attend control walkthrough meeting), as needed.

• Collaborate with teammates across the Source to Pay process to ensure a collaborative and robust contract management strategy supporting Global Procurement Services priorities.

• Support the Delegation of Purchasing Authority (DOA) program strategic and tactical projects. As Contracting and DOA scope overlap, enhance the clarity of the process (e.g., signature authority).

Strategic Thinking:

• Full understanding of the "One Procurement" strategies.  Strong knowledge and project work across multiple categories that impact the team positively.

• Performs routine professional-based activities and contribute to and manage some projects.