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Job Details
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.
Purpose
Own the coordination of the Inventory plan setting within Supply Chain Planning and all
associated follow on activities. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to ensure efficiency and predictability. Further enhance the capability to project and optimize inventories across
our key supply chains. Enable accurate inventory data availability for all key stakeholders
and enable benchmarking between brands to drive best-in-class at all levels of the
organization. Partner with finance functions to understand financial inventory impact. Assist in creating global inventory management policies and implementing supply chain strategies
focusing on inventory optimization.
Responsibilities
- Provide advisory role to affiliates/brand planning to apply relevant inventory parameters
(Minimum Order Quantity and Safety Stock) at all affiliates, manufacturing plants and
planning centers to optimize customer service with right inventory levels. - Drive the short dated/excess inventory review process to mitigate any risk on obsolescence
and/or collaborate with finance to create reserves. - Initiate and support the (automatically) monthly inventory reporting at both a local and net of margin level in USD alongside active units; analyze actuals vs. Plan/LBE & actively work
with key stakeholders to understand drivers for variance. - Accountable to create inventory projections within multiple subsets such as location,
product, brand for future planning and strategic direction and manage the review process
with the brand planners. - Drive the overall Inventory plan setting process, monitoring performance and following
through on resulting actions with Planning Managers and Finance. Enhance the inventory
projection and optimization capability within Supply Chain Planning from a process, system and skillset standpoint. - Consolidate all global inventory Plan/Update/Long Range Plan data and benchmark against
previous cycle and drive analytics on the data to enable right decisions on AbbVie inventory position.
- Bachelor or Master level of Science, Engineering, Economics or Business Management, preferably in the Supply Chain area
- 2 years’ experience in Operations, Supply Chain Management and/ or Financial Management
- Practical knowledge of inventory MRP systems such as SAP, advanced planning tools such as
JDA and/or others along with the ability to effectively query and isolate data for
analysis
is preferred - Act as a team player with focus on improvement and a strong drive for results
- Must have excellent analytical skills
- Ability to individually prioritize and execute tasks based on a defined project plan in a
high-pressure environment - Excellent organizational and follow-up skills are required
- Demonstrated proficiency to develop strong cross-functional collaboration with Finance,
Manufacturing, affiliates and within Supply Chain - Must have solid communication skills (English) as well as excellent Supply Chain management
skills/understanding. International experience and/or multi-lingual capabilities is a plus
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
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