Associate Supply Chain Specialist

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:

Associate Supply Chain Specialist

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.

• 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 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 works out of our Rapid Molecular Diagnostics (RMDx) Headquarters in Lake Forest, IL supporting our Toxicology business unit. Abbott's rapid diagnostic tests allow healthcare professionals and their patients to get same-day results. For healthcare workers, this means they can diagnose and advise their patients in a single office visit. For patients, quicker results mean earlier treatment, less anxiety, less time, and money spent on repeat doctor visits and a faster return to good health.

The Associate Supply Chain Specialist provides demand forecasting, production planning/scheduling, inventory management, and distribution support to maintain production operations and customer product availability. Under general supervision, develops, maintains, and communicates finished goods and sub-assembly supply plans over the long-term planning horizon. He/she will provide direction on manufacturing schedules for assigned products. This role will also be responsible for working with commercial to develop a global demand plan that follows the S&OP process. Works cross-functionally with purchasing, production, commercial, engineering, quality, and other teams as necessary to resolve scheduling issues. Manages manufacturing schedules to achieve product availability and line fill rate goals, as well as other key performance indicators.

What You’ll Work On

• Analyze planning requirements and initiate appropriate action to support the master schedule or independent demands.

• Schedule Manufacturing Operations to ensure availability of items under planner’s control with while efficiently utilizing facilities.

• Perform system maintenance and updates to ensure database integrity for planning fields and files.

• Perform analysis and provide recommendations to management regarding demand or supply assumptions. Generates reports of moderate complexity and performs data analysis to proactively revise plans or resolve issues.

• Recommend procurement strategies for internal and external supplies compatible with economic, supply and quality goals.

• Manage material flow from external and internal suppliers through manufacturing channels to achieve maximum production efficiency, minimizing waste and impacts to customers.

• Understands and applies manufacturing systems, interpolates manufacturing requirements.

• Responsible for estimating future demand by defining, tracking, and measuring market elements and determining what inventories are necessary to facilitate approval of demand plans and improved category and/or channel decision-making.

• Monitor inventories and take action as appropriate. Implements inventory policies set by Supply Chain management to manage finished goods and manufactured subassembly inventory.

• Minimize scrap/distressed inventory through efficient management of on hand inventory, monitoring short, dated stock and prioritizing consumption with commercial counte