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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.
The Transportation Analyst provides advanced analytical and operational support for end-to-end transportation processes within the LATAM region. This role ensures supply chain efficiency, compliance, risk mitigation, continuous improvement, and drives sustainability objectives by leveraging logistics systems expertise, cross-functional collaboration, and participation in strategic transportation projects
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage, monitor, and optimize inbound shipments to LATAM, ensuring adherence to service level agreements and operational KPIs.
- Oversee and analyze exports from Brazil and Costa Rica manufacturing sites, ensuring optimization, and alignment with customer requirements.
- Analyze logistics data, troubleshoot issues, and support process enhancements.
- Investigate shipment delays, discrepancies, and nonconformities; lead root cause analysis, implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), and maintain thorough documentation.
- Develop, automate, and maintain dashboards and performance reports to facilitate insight-driven decision making.
- Support the Request for Proposal (RFP) process for global freight forwarding partners, defining requirements, evaluating bids, and onboarding vendors.
- Co-manage freight forwarder performance through comprehensive KPI tracking, reporting, and collaboration to ensure continuous improvement and service level compliance.
- If requested, represent transportation operations in regional Monthly Business Reviews (MBR) and global Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR), presenting business updates, and making alignment with our freight partners.
- Support sustainability initiatives in transportation, benchmark emissions, implement green logistics projects, and track progress against targets.
- Establish and enforce standard operating procedures (SOPs) for carrier management, shipment documentation, and operational hand-offs.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders across customs, compliance, warehousing, manufacturing, quality, and logistics partners to resolve issues and support operational excellence.
- Participate in cross-functional continuous improvement projects focusing on cost savings, process optimization and digitalization of logistics processes.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business, or related discipline
- 3+ years’ experience in transportation, supply chain, or logistics; in the LATAM region.
- Proficiency with SAP transportation/logistics modules and Transportation Management Systems (TMS); advanced Excel and data visualization (Power BI, Tableau) skills.
- Demonstrated experience in project management, process improvement
- Strong analytical, stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills.
- Fluent English required; Spanish and/or Portuguese proficiency strongly preferred.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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