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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.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 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 onsite in our Temecula, CA location in the Abbott Vascular Division. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Lead AV Planning, Purchasing, and Material Handling departments, supporting AV product business units.

What You’ll Work On

For Planning department: ·

Facilitate Business Unit S&OP processes for business unit or entire site, provide direction to demand, supply, NPI, financial integration steps.

· Lead cross-site coordination on supply planning for products shared with other sites Establish and continuously improve planning & scheduling business processes

· Manage planning of all new product launches and planning of product transfers to/from other manufacturing sites

· Maintain relationships, and benchmark with sister sites to continually look for improvement opportunities for planning.

· Lead effort and provide directions on achieving high product availability while minimizing finished goods inventory level.

For Purchasing:

· Manage direct and indirect materials for manufacturing activities, as well as materials for packaging/labeling activities.

· Establish and continuously improve purchasing processes · Ensure purchasing and financial compliance with all inventory and non inventory spend for the site

· Manage relationships with suppliers, build stronger relationships with high performance suppliers and mitigate risks with poor performing suppliers

· Lead effort and provide directions on achieving high material availability while minimizing raw materials inventory level

· Participate in purchasing efforts led by corporate purchasing

· Achieving cost improvement goals related to raw materials while minimizing inventory cost such as excess & obsolete For Material Handling: · Manage raw material and expensed item inventory for AV manufacturing sites, as well as packaging/labeling activities

· Establish and continuously improve material handling and warehouse management processes

· Lead effort with Operations in ensuring high inventory accuracy in production-side inventory locations

- Minimize inventory level in non-warehouse locations next to production areas

For Planning:

· Establish vision, strategy, and metrics for Planning department.

· Lead effort with Operations to ensure 98.1% product availability for all products manufactured.

· Lead effort in setting inventory target and optimizing inventory level at distribution centers.

· Lead effort in achieving site-wide planning/manufacturing goals for adherence to supply plans, production schedules, and manufacturing turn-around time.

· Establish process to monitor and prioritize lots throughout the supply chain, coordinating efforts to prioritize production and supply chain activities For

Purchasing:

· Establish vision, strategy, and metrics for Purchasing department.

· Manage raw material spend.

· Manage expense purchase spend.

· Manage raw material inventory.

· Manage E&O budget.

· Establish and achieve Purchase Price Variance, Cost Improvement Project goals in alignment with AV Operations Strategy For Material Handling:

· Establish vision, strategy, and metrics for Material Handling department.

· Manage warehouses and stores areas in multiple manufacturing/packaging locations.

· Manage raw materials.

· Manage raw material inventory.

· Monitors processes for opportunities to improve safety and efficiency.

· Establish and continuously improve cycle-counting processes that ensure inventory accuracy and are in accordance to corporate requirements.

· Responsible for customer service level of 98% for all AV products

· Responsible for raw material spend and negotiation

· Exempt employees and non exempt employees

· Manages site S&OP planning.

Required Qualifications

Education/Experience:

Bachelor degree and 7-9+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. A good understanding of specified functional area.  

Preferred Qualifications

Business Planning:

· Financial management

· Inventory management and optimization

· Capacity planning

· Purchasing and negotiation skills

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The base pay for this position is $127,300.00 – $254,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.