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Company Description

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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

• Ensure an appropriate and continuous supply of finished goods to the customers in the country as per their demand in a timely manner, including S&OP, supply planning, local repackaging, launch or transfer processes.

• Establish an empowered, direct, and non-bureaucratic planning team and culture within the organization which thinks and acts as part of the end-to-end value chain.

• Support the supply process setting up KPIs and measuring service across the chain.

• Pro-actively monitor and predict market, business environment, quality/regulatory, GTC and technical changes and adapt supply models accordingly.

• Work with global planners (GSP) when needed to ensure correct execution.

• Shipment plan execution’s follow-up from CDCs/manufacturing sites to the affiliate, working closely with Global Transportation to anticipate and mitigate any supply disruptions.

• Owner of the local rework process: lead, plan and coordinate the execution of the labelling and packaging process.

• Responsible for the local commodities vendor, SAP set up, qualifications etc.

• Purchase and manage the inventory of commodities for rework/subcontracting activities.

• Owner of the Material Master Data for the affiliate: creation, control, and update (when required) engaging other stakeholders involved in the process to make sure all steps are completed.

• Ensure the proper use of all Supply Chain systems/tools in Abbvie (SAP, JDA, IVIS, QS, MODS, etc)

• Support and lead specific regional initiatives, aligned with the CoE blueprint and responsible for the Supply simplification initiatives (savings, efficiencies, green initiatives).

• Responsible to check and request updates on any supply chain set-up parameters (DTS, SS, MOQ)

• Generate reports related to Supply Chain.

• Provide effective communication within the business community on demand and supply signals and effectively manage demand and inventory during bottlenecks and supply constraints.

• Participate and support global initiatives such as collaborative planning, air to road, bottleneck management activities, portfolio life cycle management, etc.

• Challenge, align and apply supply parameter policies within the country based on global and local policies.

• To manage inventories, ensuring best practices are followed and appropriate trade-offs are made in setting safety stock levels according with the company policies and guidelines.

• Share best practices across the Region and look for improvement opportunities (benchmark, projects, etc.)

• Assure alignment and compliance with all internal procedures and policies (Finance, Compliance, etc) in the corresponding Areas of responsibility.

• Manage supply chain-related costs, ensuring that best practices are followed, and competitive rates and productivity are maintained.

• Perform activities in line with global and local financial policies, review on a regular basis inbound delivery, outbound deliveries (returned goods), inventory by product and resolve discrepancies and returns.

• Control and understand all Logistics systems (parameters, costs, restrictions) and optimization tools.

• Review upcoming volumes, product launches and future capacity needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree

• 5-6 years of Logistics/Supply chain experience

• Proficient in English: advance

• Customer focus

• Strong analytical, problem solving, communication, customer service and interpersonal skills.

• Individual must be self-motivated with great follow-up skills and be able to work independently.

• Strong Supply and Logistics Know-how.

• Accounting Fundamentals

• Continuous Improvement /Lean manufacturing fundamentals

• Analytical and conceptual skills around data management.

• Data gathering and quantitative and qualitative data analysis, including business process metrics and measures linking to business KPIs.

• People Management & Development

• Strong attention to detail

• Accountability

• Business Process, Corporate Policy (compliance & completeness)

• Analytical and cost analysis

• Pharmaceutical/Healthcare or Consumer supply chain experience preferred.

Additional Information

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.