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 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
About Abbott
For years, Abbott's medical device businesses have offered technologies that are faster, more effective, and less invasive. Whether it's glucose monitoring systems, innovative therapies for treating heart disease, or products that help people with chronic pain or movement disorders, our medical device technologies are designed to help people live their lives better and healthier. Every day, our technologies 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 ?ngersticks.
Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes drug-eluting stents, bare metal stents, guide wires, balloon dilatation catheters, imaging catheters and software, vessel closure devices and peripheral stents
Our location in Westford, MA, currently has an opportunity for a Senior Manager, Materials & Warehousing.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Primary Job Function
Lead AV Planning, Purchasing, and Material Handling departments, supporting AV product business units.
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
Core Job Responsibilities
Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
For Planning:
• Establish vision, strategy, and metrics for Planning department
• Lead effort with Operations to ensure 99% 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
Position Accountability / Scope
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
Minimum Education
Bachelor degree (REQUIRED) and 10+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. A good understanding of specified functional area.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU'LL BRING:
Minimum Experience / Training Required
- Medical Device experience Required
- APICS Certification preferred
- Managing staff required
- Experience with large scale ERP, i.e. Oracle, JD Edwards, SAP (SAP preferred)
- Experience with EOL (End of Life) changes
- Experience with high mix/low volume
- Experience dealing with multi-site partnerships
- Business Planning
- Financial management
- Inventory management and optimization
- Capacity planning
- Purchasing and negotiation skills
WHAT WE OFFER :
At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:
- A fast-paced work environment where your safety is our priority
- Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
- Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
- Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs
- Paid time off
- 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
- The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities
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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future.
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
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