Sr. Supply Planner

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:

Senior Supply Planner

Working at Abbott

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.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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 can work out of either our Plymouth MN or Westfield IN sites, supporting our Structural Heart Medical Device division. Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

The Supply Planner manages production planning for their assigned product(s). Position will be responsible for translating commercial demand and inventory strategies/targets into effective supply plans. Supply Planner will manage production plans that span multiple plants. Incumbent will be required to coordinate with Demand Planning, Operations and other planners to resolve plant scheduling conflicts and capacity constraints. The Supply Planner is primarily focused on the next 24 months horizon. Incumbent is expected to work independently, with regular support from department management supervision.

What You'll Work On

• Maintain internal and external customer service levels for products.

• Analyze plant throughput within customer service, capacity, efficiency, and inventory plan framework.

• Assist Program and Project management groups, project activity and schedule of new products, new processes, etc.

• Develop production plans for Plan and Update packages.

• Participate in decision-making meetings on plant manpower loading and/or premium labor (overtime-contract labor).

• Work directly with plants to perform Rough Cut Capacity Planning in support of 24 month planning horizon.

• Present at monthly meetings with plant and division operations to review and implement operations strategies.

• Understands business environment and relates extensive knowledge of internal and external activities to trends.

• Interfaces with a variety of management levels on significant matters, often requiring the coordination of activity across organizational units.

• Participates in the development of others by facilitating training and providing feedback and guidance.

• May lead a project team.

• Provides technical leadership to business units.

• Acts as a mentor to less-experienced staff.

• Exercises judgment independently. (Planning/Organization) Plans and organizes project assignments of substantial variety and complexity.

• Initiates or maintains schedule for projects and project milestones.

• Establishes priorities of individual or project assignments.

• Selects methods and techniques to lead a project to completion.

• Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve organizational objectives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 5+ years' work experience in supply planning, demand planning, procurement, supply chain.
• Comprehensive knowledge and application business concepts, procedures and practices.
• Uses in-depth knowledge of business unit functions and cross group dependencies/ relation