Demand Planning Manager Jobs

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .
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• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

The Opportunity

This position is an onsite opportunity in the Abbott Diabetes Care Division. We are helping people with Diabetes lead healthier, happier lives. As a global leader in diabetes care, Abbott is constantly working to deliver the highest quality products and unwavering support to our customers. Consistent and accurate glucose monitoring is the foundation of any diabetes management plan, so we’re committed to continuous improvement in the way patients and professionals measure, track and analyze glucose levels.

As a Demand Planning Manager, you will be responsible to consolidate and analyze demand-based sales forecasts for all products for our Canada and Latin America countries. Demand forecasts drive Annual Plan and Latest Best Estimate sales planning, resulting production planning, Long-Range Plan forecasts and capital investment planning. You will work cross-functionally assuming the leadership role in communicating to Country management, Finance, Marketing and Sales and Manufacturing Operations issues related to product sales forecasts and product availability. This is an onsite opportunity in Alameda, CA.

What You'll Do

• Lead and coordinate the monthly area Demand Planning and IBP (Integrated Business Planning) processes including but not limited to: consensus forecasts, cross-functional assumption alignment, and management review presentations; backorder tracking, reporting and resolution; managing the supply change request (SCR) process;
• Develop and recommend contingency plans in response to unexpected changes in demand/supply; provide timely and thorough assessment of problems and formulate solutions; propose solutions which present minimal disruption to the business
• Responsible for communicating product supply including decisions to allocate throughout the area to minimize customer backorders
• Participate in the preparation of executive level summaries and key assumptions, findings and observations along with actionable information; interpret ambiguous data; draw conclusions and provide recommendations
• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and performing other duties as assigned by management
• Develop a dashboard and manage a reconciliation process to identify variances between monthly demand forecasts and quarterly rLBE process.
• Provide consistent analysis of the forecast accuracy. Ultimately responsible for forecast accuracy metrics.
• Generate predictable forecasts for maximum benefit for resource allocation, capital utilization and investment decisions, including but not limited to: ability to dependably manage inventory and achieve DOH targets, reduce distressed inventory and assess staffing requirements;
• Monitor and recommend modifications to service metrics and safety stock levels.
• Support countries and project teams to ensure organizational success; provide regular benchmarking and adjust processes where beneficial.
• Create, manage and distribute frequent reports/dashboards to track KPIs
• Develop processes to mitigate reoccurrence
• Establish benchmark models for assisting countries in forecasting new products and product transitions (e.g. end of life)
• Monitor the monthly performance of sales and manufacturing to identify and communicate trends that indicate gaps. Monitor and recommend modifications to manufacturing forecasts to optimize customer product supply service levels and days on hand finished goods inventory.

Required

EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

• Demonstrate the ability to build and maintain relationships in other organizational groups, at multiple levels
• Minimum 7 years of related work experience.
• Excellent verbal communication skills from quick thinking on conference calls to presentations at senior manager meetings
• Exceptional strategic and analytical skills; including above average knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and other database resources
• Capacity to work independently; show initiative, self-motivation and a solid work ethic
• Strong business acumen, judgment and problem-solving skills in order to translate analysis into recommendations and conclusions
• Work well within the team, utilizing different individual strengths to improve output
• Quickly adapt to changing business conditions
• Bachelors Degree
• Good judgement, integrity and professionalism
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations

Preferred

• Spanish fluency preferred.
• Strong preference will be given to those candidates with Demand Planning and Finance experience/expertise.
• Analytic and trending experience desired.
• Some Project Management Experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Finance, Accounting, Statistics or Business and Demand Planning preferred.
• A minimum of 3 years domestic and international interface experience.
• Ability and aptitude to use various types of databases (SAP, Essbase, MS Excel) and other computer software

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

CRM

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Diabetes

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Vascular

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission: why we exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

EP

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

HF

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow, to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, Glucerna® and ZonePerfect® – to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life.

The base pay for this position is $104,300.00 – $208,500.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.