Senior Analyst, Inventory

AbbVie • North Chicago, IL

18h

About The Position

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 X , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , LinkedIn and Tik Tok . Purpose Own the coordination of the Inventory plan setting within Supply Chain Planning and all associated follow on activities. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to ensure efficiency and predictability. Further enhance the capability to project and optimize inventories across our key supply chains. Enable accurate inventory data availability for all key stakeholders and enable benchmarking between brands to drive best-in-class at all levels of the organization. Partner with finance functions to understand financial inventory impact. Assist in creating global inventory management policies and implementing supply chain strategies focusing on inventory optimization.

Requirements

• Bachelor or Master level of Science, Engineering, Economics or Business Management, preferably in the Supply Chain area
• 2 years’ experience in Operations, Supply Chain Management and/ or Financial Management
• Practical knowledge of inventory MRP systems such as SAP, advanced planning tools such as JDA and/or others along with the ability to effectively query and isolate data for analysis is preferred
• Act as a team player with focus on improvement and a strong drive for results
• Must have excellent analytical skills
• Ability to individually prioritize and execute tasks based on a defined project plan in a high-pressure environment
• Excellent organizational and follow-up skills are required
• Demonstrated proficiency to develop strong cross-functional collaboration with Finance, Manufacturing, affiliates and within Supply Chain
• Must have solid communication skills (English) as well as excellent Supply Chain management skills/understanding.

Nice To Haves

• International experience and/or multi-lingual capabilities is a plus

Responsibilities

• Provide advisory role to affiliates/brand planning to apply relevant inventory parameters (Minimum Order Quantity and Safety Stock) at all affiliates, manufacturing plants and planning centers to optimize customer service with right inventory levels.
• Drive the short dated/excess inventory review process to mitigate any risk on obsolescence and/or collaborate with finance to create reserves.
• Initiate and support the (automatically) monthly inventory reporting at both a local and net of margin level in USD alongside active units; analyze actuals vs. Plan/LBE & actively work with key stakeholders to understand drivers for variance.
• Accountable to create inventory projections within multiple subsets such as location, product, brand for future planning and strategic direction and manage the review process with the brand planners.
• Drive the overall Inventory plan setting process, monitoring performance and following through on resulting actions with Planning Managers and Finance.
• Enhance the inventory projection and optimization capability within Supply Chain Planning from a process, system and skillset standpoint.
• Consolidate all global inventory Plan/Update/Long Range Plan data and benchmark against previous cycle and drive analytics on the data to enable right decisions on AbbVie inventory position.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level