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. **Senior Manager Supply Chain** **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 (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program, and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) 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 **Abbott Park, IL** (Lake Bluff, IL) location in **Transfusion Medicine** . The key to successful treatment and full recovery is often fast, accurate diagnosis. Abbott’s life-changing tests and diagnostic tools provide insights that enable smarter, faster decisions and transform the way the world is managing health. Our pioneering technology spans the world of healthcare operations — with medical diagnostic instruments, tests, automation and informatics solutions for hospitals, reference labs, blood centers, emergency departments, physician offices and clinics. As the **Senior Manager Supply Chain** , you’ll lead Planning, Purchasing, and Material Handling departments, supporting product business units. **What You’ll Work On** + Establish vision, strategy, and metrics for Planning, Purchasing, and Material Handling departments. + 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 affiliate 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. + Manage direct and indirect materials for manufacturing activities, as well as materials for packaging/labeling activities. + 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 Division 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. + Lead effort with Operations to ensure 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 and partners. + Manage E&O budget. + Establish and achieve Purchase Price Variance, Cost Improvement Project goals in alignment with ATM Operations Strategy. + Manage warehouses and stores areas in multiple manufacturing/packaging locations. + Monitors processes for opportunities to improve safety and efficiency. + Establish and continuously improve cycle-counting processes that ensure inventory accuracy and are in accordance with corporate requirements. **Required Qualifications** + Bachelors degree and a 7-9 years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. **Preferred Qualifications** + A good understanding of specified functional areas: Business Planning, Financial Management, Inventory Management and optimization, Capacity planning, purchasing and negotiation skills. + Leadership experience is required. **Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:** www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx) Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott , and on Twitter @AbbottNews. 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. An Equal Opportunity Employer Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce. We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com