About Abbott

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 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, medical devices and nutritionals products. In Ireland, Abbott employs over 4,000 people across nine sites. We have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been operating in Ireland since 1946.

Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry-leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for the treatment and management of diseases and other conditions. IDEM is an over a billion-dollar business unit that now support significate growth for Abbott in COVID-19 related products in over 70+ countries.

Description

The role is an integral part of the Customer Supply Chain and will focus on:

• Planning of shipments.

• Understand the business and country requirements related to freight forwarding.

• Communicating requirements to management, customer services and Abbott International Transport teams.

• Transactional effort needed to compliantly ship and record movements of product and materials.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Create and maintain country mapping reference guide - ports of entry, customs requirements, flight schedules, land locked country etc.  for easy reference for all cross functions.

• Alignment with other ARDx entities regards to capability, scope of work.

• Volume forecasting for key orders and create delivery plan.

• Create visibility for the commercial team & finance team on shipment status to support on revenue recognition. forecast and customer-facing communication.

• Ensure that all trade compliance is met for countries.

• Manage and or support to ensure compliance with embargo countries .

• Understanding of products and what is required to ship products (validated boxes, data loggers).

• Support customer service team with solutions related to distribution.

• Support commercial excellence team with lead times and other information related to distribution.

Requirements

• Microsoft Excel

• Analytical

• Supply Chain Experience (distribution)

• Customs and Trade Compliance Knowledge

• Project Management (basic)

• Strong oral and written communication skills

Personal Characteristics

• The successful candidate will be able to work in an always changing environment and will be able to adapt to change and be a change agent.  Building relationships with other peers and be able to manage challenging situations in a professional manner. 

• The candidate will also demonstrate the ability to think beyond their immediate area of responsibility and display strong business and customer focus. 

• The candidate will also display strong operational & risk management skills.

• The candidate will have a preference for data-based decisions making and will value rhythm, rigor and discipline as priority behaviours.

• The candidate will have a history of managing workflow during through standard work and performance management processes.

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