End to End Sr. Supply Chain Planner

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Purpose

The Sr. Global Supply Planner (GSP) is responsible for the short-term and long-term, or end-to-end (E2E) range supply chain planning activities and controlling the flow of product globally between manufacturing sites and the distribution centers. The objective is to optimize the manufacturing capacity to meet market demand and optimize inventory levels in our supply network. To achieve this, the GSP must build strong relationships with supply sites, brand operation managers, ECM managers, Quality Assurance, Finance, Distribution, the Affiliates, and other stakeholders. The GSP knows the business and can anticipate future opportunities and risks, and continuously looks to raise the bar to ensure success for AbbVie and assurance of supply for our patients.

Responsibilities

• Daily contact with one or more supply plants (internal and/or external) to coordinate the supply of finished product, bulk, active pharmaceutical ingredients or supporting materials.

• Define the monthly and weekly production requirements that the sites will need to execute, to achieve the business requirements. Ensure this is shared and agreed by the sites.

• Lead monthly and weekly Participate in plant meetings with the manufacturing site team to review and improve performance, the production requirements. Create impact with ideas for the larger organization and anticipate and respond to changes.

• Support financial plan/long-range planning (LRP) cycles by providing required data and input to long-term supply strategy.

• Coordinate and process inbound and outbound shipments. Support SOE process through root-cause analysis, problem solving, and creative thinking to drive resolution.

• Ensure SAP and JDA are kept up to date with the latest information and that customers are informed timely of supply updates and risks.

• Manage stakeholder relationships and expectations. Influence others when needed through use of SME knowledge and enterprise view. Act as a project lead when required.

• Drive continuous improvements and participate in initiatives led by other colleagues. Offer innovative ideas and solutions to maximize business opportunities and to address challenges in the Global Supply Planner function.

• Execute financial processes including hedging, inventory reserve review, and product scrapping.

• Support artwork changes by coordinating related supply activity.

• Onboard/train new employees.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master level, preferably in engineering, operations, supply chain or business management.

• Minimum 8 years of work experience in a similar environment required.

• Must be experienced with ERP systems, preferably SAP, and APS (Advanced Planning Systems), preferably JDA Blue Yonder/SAP IBP/o9/Kinaxis.

• Experience in doing supply planning from internal manufacturing sites and managing complex portfolios of products with multiple nodes in a supply network.

• Be a team player with focus on improvement and a strong drive for results.

• Must possess high-level analytical skills and be able to handle large amount of data.

• Excellent written and oral communication is required, to ensure a clear explanation of issues and analysis is provided to both colleagues and to leadership.

• Excellent organizational skills are required.

• Proven strong problem solving, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.

• Ability to step into leadership role when required.

• Persistent, resilient and resourceful when confronted with obstacles, and resolved issues in a timely manner.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at  the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors  including  geographic location, and we may ultimately  pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be  modified in the future. ​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),  medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to  participate in our short-term incentive programs.  ​

Note: No amount of pay is  considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned,  vested,  and determinable. The amount and availability of  any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a   particular employee  remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be  modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion,  consistent with applicable law. ​

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