Senior Specialist, Supplier Diversity & Sustainability

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Senior Specialist, Supplier Diversity & Sustainability focuses on embedding sustainable practices within the company's procurement function. This role involves developing, implementing, and refining strategies and practices to integrate sustainability into procurement processes, improving efficiency, reducing environmental impact, and supporting ethical sourcing. The role works closely with Supplier Diversity & Sustainability leadership to ensure successful project management of sustainability initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Inform the development of Supplier Diversity & Sustainability strategy and roadmap alongside Lead, leveraging insights from collaboration with category management stakeholders.
• Assist in conducting assessments and analyzes to identify current gaps in supplier diversity, providing inputs to Supplier Sustainability and Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) leads and shaping development Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EEDI)-focused initiatives.
• Develop Supplier Diversity & Sustainability policy and drive initiatives to align supplier portfolio and category management practices with procurement supplier diversity strategy.
• Drive Supplier Diversity & Sustainability policy through procurement training programs and close collaboration with category management teams, facilitating communication with suppliers to implement SDEI metrics and reporting.
• Implement and maintain processes for tracking and evaluating the effectiveness of supplier diversity policy and initiatives, identifying areas for improvement and encouraging collaboration with suppliers to further initiatives.
• Contribute to category, function, and enterprise status