Supply Chain Planner I

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.

Do you want to have a thriving career? Then, let’s tell you a little more about this role.

 The Supply Chain Planner is a member of the Global Supply Planning team. Each Supply Chain Planner is a critical thinker, contributing business knowledge to the cross functional teams and anticipating future opportunities and risks to ensure success for AbbVie and the customers. The Supply Chain Planner approaches all interactions as opportunities for professional growth. Their responsibilities include scenario planning, risk management, order management, execution of replenishment activities, and developing inventory strategies.

In this position, the Supply Chain Planner will primarily focus on supporting the Allergan Aesthetics brands. These brands operate in a dynamic environment with frequent new product launches and discontinuations, planned promotions across multiple brands, and overlapping manufacturing processes across the CMO network. The Supply Chain Planner in this role will collaborate with stakeholders across supply chain, internal and external manufacturing, procurement, logistics, quality, finance, and commercial to promote robust assurance of supply strategies for AbbVie products.

Is this a team you want to be part of? Then read on…

You will…

• Create, monitor, and maintain a feasible 24-month end-to-end volume (replenishment/ production) and inventory plan for all assigned product families that conform to business strategies, financial and throughput plans, capacity constraints and the target inventory profiles to support monthly sales and operations planning process and PLAN/LBE process.


• Leverage the global planning system (JDA) and monitor and maintain planning parameters and data to ensure AbbVie manufacturing sites and affiliates have reliable data to look at and output from the system can be used for third party manufacturers and customers.


• Monitor inventories on hand at DCs and take proactive action if and where appropriate based on available inventory, lead times and size of orders to minimize risk of disruption to supply.


• Develop and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, within the organization, AbbVie manufacturing plants, Third party suppliers and cross-functional personnel.


• Promotes cross-functional accountability by understanding the team dynamics between Brand, Commercial, and Ops team to determine the impact of active business, projects and strategic decisions on volumes and inventory.


• Own planning inputs to SOP process while contributing to discussions and executing Life Cycle Management initiatives (launches, discontinuations, site transfers, etc.).


• Daily contact with multiple internal and external supplying plants to coordinate the supply of finished product, bulk, active ingredients, and supporting materials.


• Proactively seeks out opportunities with commitment to innovation and improvements by critically evaluating current processes and strategically challenging business stakeholders.


• Participate in cross functional projects as the Subject Matter Expert for supply chain planning. Manage ad hoc, daily, weekly, and monthly planning responsibilities diligently and apply prioritization with management input, as necessary.


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What do you need to do this role? You will need:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Supply Chain Management, Economics, Engineering, Science, or Business Management.


• Minimum of 1+ years of work-related experience, ideally in a regulated fast-paced environment within the Pharmaceutical, CPG, Food & Beverage industry.


• Exceptional analytical, critical thinking, and communication skills are essential for success in this role.


• Ability and desire to create and develop strategic relationships with all stakeholders.


• Works independently with a sense of urgency to deliver high quality work on a consistent basis in a deadline-driven environment.


• Proven track record of problem-solving, negotiation, and conflict resolution capabilities.


• Demonstrated ability to learn and effectively utilize advanced planning and ERP systems such as JDA and SAP.


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So, does this all sound like the right role for you? Then come join Abbvie!

For more information, please visit www.abbvie.com .

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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