R&D Materials 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:

Working at Abbott

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

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Free medical coverage will be included 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.
• Recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies by Fortune.
• Recognized as one of the best big companies to work for and the best place to work for diverse employees, working parents, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

The position of R&D Materials Planner is within our ARDx-ID Business Unit located in San Diego, California.

Develops, maintains, and controls detailed project forecasts (both short-term and long-term) across multiple R&D schedules by the development timeline. Analyzes capacity across project build and testing timelines. Serves as an interface between R&D labs, Manufacturing, RE Lab, and Labeling, as well as the main source of information regarding forecast and schedule changes on behalf of R&D development programs to Sr. Management. Facilitates and maintains the R&D timeline creation and planning process for all levels of management.

What You’ll Work On:

• Develops, maintains, and controls detailed project forecasts (12-mo rolling, monthly, weekly, and daily forecasts), balancing program milestones and technical development, analyzing capacity at all stages of the timeline, and communicating to all levels of management.
• The forecasts and build plans are specific to R&D as they reflect the multiple configurations of design of experiments as a result of integrating multiple components.
• Directs, leads, and executes key development studies by targeting resources for: Manufacturing.
• Communicates forecast and schedule changes for sub-assembly and finished good lines.
• Liaises with management of relevant departments to ensure test units are allocated appropriately.
• Communicates demand changes for the S&OP process - RE Lab.
• Communicates testing forecast. Prioritizes test requests by analyzing capacity to respond to program priority changes - R&D.
• Communicates forecasts for R&D pilot lines outside of production.
• Directs testing to R&D labs (analytical R&D, material characterization) for characterization and development testing.
• Leads timeline creation meetings across functional groups with all levels of management. Analyzes the potential impact of development milestones.
• Processes archive requests for engineering reports and project design history files.
• Owns and maintains project design history files to ensure consistency across programs.
• 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.
• Provides guidance to less-experienced staff.
• Exercises judgment independently.
• Initiates or maintains schedule for projects and project milestones. Plans and organizes project assignments of substantial variety and complexity.
• Establishes priorities of individual or project assignments.
• Selects methods and techniques to lead a project to completion.
• Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically fail to achieve organizational objectives.