ABBOTT LABORATORIES Global Commodity Sourcing Manager – Composites & Plastic Salary in the United States

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 103,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Responsible for business operations for all category management.  Drive global operational consistency across Abbott Diabetes Care.  Works closely with business stakeholders in Corporate and Divisional functions to enable business continuity, including driving implementation plans.  Nurtures stakeholder relationships by serving as a strong business partner, helping to identify business critical needs and requirements while providing operational support that meets immediate and long-term demands.  Strategic representative of Abbott, across disciplines, industry and within the community.

Proactively identifies areas of opportunity for business process improvement. 

Provides insights to business units on how to optimize and refine Abbott and Supplier processes to improve effectiveness. 

Primary point of contact for overall business operational needs across the category. Responsible for prioritizing planned and unplanned demand, globally, across the category.

Responsibilities:

Operational/Financial Excellence

Influences business units to align with strategic initiatives that enable effective operational efficiencies across the enterprise.  Effective operational leader capable of driving effectiveness for the category.  Ability to assess overall needs and react to anticipated and unanticipated disruptions. 

Drives financial performance with thorough supply base management, and category capability building.  Drives cost impacts, whether savings, or revenue generation by meeting expansion goals and growth goals.

Relationship Management

Influence and partner with business leaders to manage and align business needs and requirements for the category.  Closely collaborates with adjacent business departments to ensure adequate and timely delivery of agreed services and service level requirements.  Partner and collaborate with key Global Procurement personnel across Abbott divisions to support cross-divisional business initiatives, and explore Procurement synergies and efficiencies.  Build and maintain strategic relationships with key category suppliers as well as counterparts at other Healthcare/Consumer companies. Build and maintain strong relationships across functions and demonstrate value-add by leveraging those relationships through enthusiasm and support.  Monitor global market dynamics and anticipate business critical actions that may be required for business continuity.

Is key relationship manager with category suppliers, driving risk management, and enhanced development of a flexible agile supply base.

Accountability

Highly self-motivated and directed.  Takes ownership and fulfills goals established by the Senior Director. 

Can lead to additional opportunities for leadership. 

Qualifications:  Bachelors’ Degree in Finance/Business and/or Masters.  Minimum 5 years’ experience Automotive, Computers, or hardware, as well as technical capabilities such as should-costing, capabilities matrixes, and category management.