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 Ireland Diagnostic Division Sligo

Abbott Diagnostic's is a global leader of in vitro diagnostics with approximately 70,000 institutional customers in more than 100 countries. Our diagnostic products offer a broad range of innovative instrument systems and tests for hospitals, reference labs, blood banks, physician offices and clinics.

Abbott’s diagnostic products offer customers automation, convenience, cost effectiveness and flexibility. Abbott has helped transform the practice of medical diagnosis from an art to a science, helping to create the modern diagnostics industry through the company's commitment to improving patient care and lowering overall costs. The history of Abbott Diagnostics is filled with examples of first-of-a-kind products and significant technological advancements.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

To ensure that AIDD meets its product availability goal to its customer, while meeting:

• Inventory goals

• Quality goals

• Cost goals, and safety goals

• Feasible Plant Load

• Meeting Order Due Dates

• Inventory Planning and Management

• Inventory Control System deployment

• Sourcing Materials

• Vendor Contracts & Relations

• Execution of work in compliance with AIDD and Divisional procedures and policies

• Ensuring a safe work environment

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To agree with European Demand Planning (EDP), and remaining affiliates on feasible plant load

• To use the plant load for:

• Inventory Planning in the Business updates

• Inventory Control System demand

• Using ERP generate:

  • Planned orders and firm planned orders

  • Shop-orders as per dispatch lists

  • Purchase orders

• To co-ordinate final production schedule based on priorities, available materials and resources

• Maintaining settings/parameters in the ERP

• Using the ERP to manage potential distressed inventory, and to generate MDO request forms

• To generate and review planning and inventory reports

• Issue Production Monitoring reports to AIDD, Wiesbaden and Lake County on a weekly and monthly basis, incl. updated pipeline analyses and input to the critical supply items

• Main interface to EDP and AIDD Management

• To use the forecasted requirements for:

  • Securing capacity with suppliers

  •  Negotiating prices with third party vendors

  • Setting up Contractual Agreements with third party vendors

  • Inventory planning in the Business updates

• Identifying alternative vendors based on cost savings and/or opportunities to improve business performance

• Using the Inventory Control System to generate Purchase orders

• To generate and review purchasing and inventory reports

• Pipeline analysis/critical suppliers

General         

• Maintain close liaison and co-operation with all other departments, affiliates and staff within the organization who are associated with the materials/production operation in AIDD in order to optimize the plants operations

• Ensure that area procedures are in compliance with the requirements of ADD Policy and appropriate regulatory standards

• Ensure adequate training and development of the planning staff by good communication and identifying actual training needs

• Ensuring safety standards are met and safe working-practices adhered to

• Maintain high standard in housekeeping, GMP and Safety

• Complete all activities in a safer manner ensuring that any potential safety issues and areas for improvement are addressed

• Optimise the use of human resources by encouraging an atmosphere of involvement, open communication and effective teamwork

• Ensure Environmental procedures eg recycling, waste minimization are adhered to and improvements made where possible

• Ensure that the plant meets the quality requirements of its customers, ADD, ISO/EN Auditors and other external agencies by ensuring adherence to and implementation of required procedures and activities

• On an annual basis complete performance reviews and development plans for reports.  Maintain a positive attendance management procedure

EDUCATION & COMPETENCIES:

• Ability to work with all levels of management

• Communicate with team

• Recognise and reward effort

• Resolve conflict constructively

• Seek feedback

• Extend contacts with ADD sites, Distribution Operations, Global and Corporate purchasing organisations

• Appropriate qualification in either Production Planning e.g. Diploma in Purchasing or relevant APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society) examinations or

• General Degree with relevant Manufacturing experience

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