Sr. Supply Chain Manager

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:

Job Title

Sr. Supply Chain Manager

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 of which you dream.
• 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 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 St Paul, MN location in the New Brighton region in our Abbott Vascular Division. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease. 

For years, Abbott’s medical device businesses have offered technologies that are faster, more effective, and less invasive. Whether it’s glucose monitoring systems, innovative therapies for treating heart disease, or products that help people with chronic pain or movement disorders, our medical device technologies are designed to help people live their lives better and healthier. Every day, our technologies help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

What you’ll do:

The Sr. Supply Chain Manager will plan, direct, and monitor all supply and logistics activities to ensure a cost-effective flow of merchandise from suppliers to customers.

• Manage day-to-day supply and logistics activities to maximize the efficiency, reliability, timeliness, and cost effectiveness of the organization's supply chain.
• Manage procurement team of 6 direct reports with a total of 28 in team, including warehouse staff.
• Activities may include: materials planning and control, procurement, inventory management, storage, warehousing, logistics, transport and distribution.
• Develop and implement schedules and procedures.
• Allocate resources to meet targets in areas such as transit and delivery times; inventory levels; purchasing, warehousing, and storage costs; and service standards.
• Liaise with functional and operational area managers (e.g., in customer service, sales and production planning) to ensure supply activities are integrated with other parts of the business.
• Select and manage ongoing relationships with major suppliers, vendors, or sub-contractors to minimize costs and ensure satisfactory standards of service.
• Lead, direct, evaluate, and develop staff to ensure resources are used effectively and work schedules and targets are met.
• Responsible for procurement of components for R&D programs.
• Identify and implement cost-savings projects.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 7-9 years with pattern of progressing responsibilities.
• A good understanding of specified functional area:
  Business Planning
  Financial management
  Inventory management and optimization
  Capacity planning
  Purchasing and negotiation skills
• Ability to travel approximately 10%, including internationally.

Preferred Experience

• Engineering Degree, preferred.
• Experience in Operational Excellence or Operations, pref