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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

US Demand Manager

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position can be seated in either our Plymouth, MN or St Paul, MN locations, supporting our Structural Heart medical device team. Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

Our team is looking for an experienced, high caliber Demand Manager.  This role will be responsible for leading the U.S. forecasting and S&OP process in collaboration with the finance, commercial, supply chain, and marketing organizations. The role will be responsible for driving process improvements, product lifecycle planning strategies (product launches, phase outs, etc), commercial strategy modeling, field inventory management, management of systems and metrics to measure our performance in these areas.

What You’ll Work On

• Own and lead the monthly S&OP process inclusive of the US Demand Reviews and Regional S&OP meeting with US Executive Leadership, KPI performance, root cause analysis and solution creation
• Provide leadership and partner with key stake holders to drive consensus around the forecast, commercial plans, and action plans to address challenges.
• Develop demand plan with commercial, marketing and finance teams based on assumptions, business trends, commercial and marketing strategies, and sales pipeline. Develop models that forecast sales, field inventory changes, phase in / out of product generations, and distressed inventory risks.
• Responsible for the daily execution of approved plans, managing abnormal demand, review and reporting of adherence to the forecast and launch plans.
• Use scenario planning to assess risk and drive informed business decisions
• Reconcile and explain differences between S&OP forecasts and LBE forecasts
• Demonstrate effective change leadership and builds strategic partnerships to further departmental and organizational objectives.
• Continuously works to optimize processes, tools and systems.
• Summarize complex data and changing assumptions into concise reporting, messaging and recommendations to stakeholders up to senior leadership level
• Must proactive problem solver, comfortable with dealing with unstructured problems, that takes on challenges and can lead a team to resolve the issues identified.   
• Travel for position up to 10%.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, engineering, supply chain, finance related field or equivalent
• 6+ plus years of progressively more responsible work experience. 
• Experience building processes, problem solving and managing change.
• Proven analytical/problem solving skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Tableau, PowerBI or other visualization tool utilization experience.
• Commercial, Marketing, and/or business experience
• Medical Device experience preferred

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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is

$95,000.00 – $190,000.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Supply Chain

     

DIVISION:

SH Structural Heart

        

LOCATION:

United States > Minnesota > Plymouth : 5050 Nathan Lane N

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

United States > Minnesota> St. Paul > Woodridge : 177 East County Rd B

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 10 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

No

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

     

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

     

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