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.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

The Global Supply Chain for IDEM, the Infectious Diseases Emerging Market Business Unit consists of Manufacturing sites in China, Korea, Japan and Jena, Germany, centralised services in Philippines, Hong Kong and Galway and the corporate headquarters in Chicago, US. The Supply Chain Headquarters for the Global Infectious Diseases Emerging Markets (IDEM) is based in Galway.  We are responsible for managing the Supply and Demand of Lateral Flow Diagnostic Tests for HIV, Malaria, Hepatitis C, Flu, a range of tropical diseases, and now Covid 19. We support a rapidly expanding Business unit within Abbott and collaborate closely on sales execution, product supply and human resources with the other business Units within the Abbott Rapid Diagnostics Division. In addition to liaising with Manufacturing Units in Japan, Korea, China and Germany, we amongst many other external Global Suppliers and we serve a Global Customer base across all continents. Our core ERP system is SAP.

This role is critical to ensuring strategic and operational information, reports and metrics are available to share with others in the business as and when required.  Driving and collating concise, clear data, completing detailed analysis and reporting on achievement of targets and identify any corrective actions within supply chain area is one of the fundamental aspects of this role. One key area of focus initially is on inventory management across all manufacturing sites, including setting stocking strategy guidelines, supporting and guiding site teams and to ensure that strategic material planning processes are in place to enable operational and production continuity.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Support the Global supply chain function by building tools and processes to collate data from a range of sources.

• Develop clear knowledge of the Global Supply Chain to ensure data collation and analysis provides critical real-time insights.

• Liaise with manager and colleagues across the Supply Chain to source, standardise and cleanse data.

• Present data and associated business insights on Supply Chain performance to senior Management team.

• Develop competency through researching the latest Data Management capabilities and potential further education.

• Ensure that any Material Requirements Planning system (MRP) or IT system in place is effective and that data is accurate and up to date and resolve any issues as required

• Develop MRP component projections for various demand scenarios leveraging our SAP platform. Work with site material teams to anticipate component shortages and excess inventory and take proactive measures to alleviate supply constraints.

• Develop a process and model to monitor ‘risk buy’ reserve levels to maximize production throughput and reduce the supply chain lead time.

• Work to support end to end supply chain dashboard completion and update

• Develop data management strategies in conjunction with supply chain leadership on supply chain key metrics for IDEM

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience within a Supply Chain environment preferred.

• Primary Degree in Engineering, Business, Math or Data Science is a prerequisite and a Master’s degree in one of these subjects is desirable with

• Experience on analytical tools such as Alteryx, Power BI or other analytical tools is desirable. 

• Strong knowledge of MRP/ERP with a solid understanding of manufacturing, bills of material, product lifecycle management, and supply chain operations.

• SAP experience desirable

• Ability to travel globally as required (with advance planning)

• A clear desire to build a career in a major Global multinational organization.

• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team

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