Team Lead, Price Planning - 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:

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 .
• 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 Easton Square location in the Nutrition Division. 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®, Protality® and Glucerna®– to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life.

What You’ll Work On

The Price Planning team is responsible for the coordination and execution of list price strategy at ANPD. The Team Leader, Price Planning directly impacts profitability through administering and maintaining prices for new and existing products and ensuring appropriate approvals are obtained for all business units. This requires overall ANPD business knowledge of the division’s go to market strategies to ensure the proper implementation of deals, new item launches, and price requests to ensure ANPD is in compliance with all Abbott operating guidelines and legal requirements. This position develops and maintains database tables, spreadsheets, and other summary reports showing actual performance data. They pro-actively communicate service-related issues and facilitate/lead the resolution in accordance with customer requirements. They represent customer service on various cross-functional teams and serve as a project leader for various pricing related efforts that impact ANPD Retail price process and procedures. This position interacts with individuals from Customer Service Operations, Retail Sales, Sales Strategy, Brand Marketing, Finance, Accounts Receivable, Commercial Operations, e-abbott, and Material Master Data. They also provide guidance to the Pricing Analyst in Customer Service Operations.

• Coordinate and execute list pricing for all distribution channels – Retail, Institutions, Hospitals, Distributors, Government, and Employee Cash Sales.
• Successfully implement Price Justification requests and Every Day Low Price events for the ANPD Retail business unit.
• Accurately program, calculate, and report all rebate and billback programs to division Finance.
• Accurately program Returns Allowance discounts and rebates.
• Coordinate ANPD Retail price increase/decrease requests from Sales Strategy and Planning Management and Brand Marketing. Ensure notification process is completed by appropriate time line requirements.
• Serve as a System Administrator for the Price Justification database.
• Assist with updates to the ANPD Terms and Conditions for all customer channels.
• Assist with the annual review of all pricing guidelines for the Price Justification database.
• Serve as a department liaison with other division pricing areas when necessary to ensure consistency with strategies corporate wide.