ABBOTT LABORATORIES Division Supply Planning Manager Salary in the United States

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

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.

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.  

Business Planning:

· Financial management

· Inventory management and optimization

· Capacity planning

· Purchasing and negotiation skills