Supervisor, Demand Planning at Abbott Laboratories

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.

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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 .
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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 is an onsite opportunity in the Abbott Diabetes Care Division. We are helping people with Diabetes lead healthier, happier lives.   As a global leader in diabetes care, Abbott is constantly working to deliver the highest quality products and unwavering support to our customers.  Consistent and accurate glucose monitoring is the foundation of any diabetes management plan, so we’re committed to continuous improvement in the way patients and professionals measure, track and analyze glucose levels.

As a Supervisor, Demand Planning, you will execute tactical activities supporting US demand forecasting and planning; participate in the development of highly predictable demand-based sales forecasts for all products in the business portfolio; work cross-functionally to achieve organizational goals. Key metrics include but are not limited to forecast accuracy, backorder avoidance and days on hand finished goods inventory. This position assumes the leadership role in communicating to Business Unit Management, Finance, Marketing and Sales and Manufacturing Operations issues related to product sales forecasts and product availability for global ADC. This is an Onsite role in Alameda, CA.
 

What You’ll Do : 

• Responsible for executing tactical components of monthly Demand Planning and IBP (Integrated Business Planning) processes including but not limited to: consensus forecasts, cross-functional assumption alignment, and management review presentations; backorder tracking, reporting and resolution; managing the supply change request (SCR) process;
• Work cross-functionally to achieve organizational goals; coordinate with commercial management to develop product lifecycle; drive adherence to accountability
• support project teams to ensure project success; provide regular benchmarking and adjust processes where beneficial.
• Generate predictable forecasts for maximum benefit for resource allocation, capital utilization and investment decisions, including but not limited to: ability to dependably manage inventory and achieve DOH targets, reduce distressed inventory and assess staffing requirements; responsible for managing lot sequestering for Alameda key customers and the allocation process
• Monitor and recommend modifications to service metrics and safety stock levels.
• Responsible for communicating product supply including decisions to reposition inventory throughout the world to minimize customer backorders
• Develop and recommend contingency plans in response to unexpected changes in demand/supply; provide timely and thorough assessment of problems and formulate solutions; propose solutions which present minimal disruption to the business
• Develop processes to mitigate reoccurrence
• Participate in the preparation of executive level summaries and key assumptions, findings and observations along with actionable information; interpret ambiguous data; draw conclusions and provide recommendations
• Monitor the monthly performance of sales and manufacturing to identify and communicate trends that indicate gaps Monitor and recommend modifications to manufacturing forecasts to optimize customer product supply service levels and days on hand finished goods inventory within assigned Area.
• In coordination with Marketing, transition strategy and forecasts during product transitions including product launches, end of life, conversions and transfers.
• Establish benchmark models for assisting Marketing in forecasting new products.
• Develop a dashboard and manage a reconciliation process with global commercial finance to identify variances between monthly demand forecasts and quarterly rLBE process.
• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and performing other duties as assigned by management

Accountability
This position is accountable for the following:

• Develops accurate demand forecasts through continuous improvement of Class A demand planning and IBP (Integrated Business Planning) processes to maintain product availability to end customer at the highest possible level and manage finished goods inventory investment to target System, people, EHS or Financial implications.) levels.
• Executing strategy as communicated by the department manager; coordinating and assisting in the implementation of processes
• Contributing to short-term, mid-range and long-term organizational goals
• Demonstrating continual improvement in forecasting and planning activities
• Candidate works under general direction and independently determines and develops approach to solutions and identifies and quantifies risks and their consequences relative to the success of a project / task and recommends appropriate action, decisions or recommendations to achieve departmental / project / task objectives
• Drives functional performance to ensure cross-functional standards and expectations are met;
• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors where strategic and tactical decisions will be made based upon data the individual provides in both formal and informal settings.
   

Experience You’ll Bring

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree: Marketing, Finance, Statistics or Business
• Requires 5+ years of relevant work experience to develop the competence required to meet the skills and responsibilities of the position.
• Strong analytical, financial, and information systems skills are required.
• Demand, Finance, Sales Forecasting and/or Production Planning Experience:
•  Minimum 3 years Domestic and International interface experience.
• Project Management experience preferred.
   

Preferred Skills:

• Comprehensive knowledge and ability to apply business concepts, procedures and practices to daily tasks
• Ability to clearly, concisely and accurately convey communication
• Ability to work independently and in groups
• Demonstrated initiative and problem-solving skills; critical-thinking skills
• Advanced use of Microsoft Office applications, with a specific focus on Excel; working knowledge of SAP/Symphony, Dodeca, and Data Analytics tools such as Power BI preferred.
• Ability and aptitude to use various types of databases (FORE, LOGILITY, COGNOS, MS Excel) and other computer software;
• Strong organizational and project management skills
• Ability and aptitude to provide solutions and contingency plans through the comprehensive review of alternative

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

CRM

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Diabetes

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Vascular

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission:  why we exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

EP

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

HF

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

The base pay for this position is $95,500.00 – $190,900.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.