Supply Planner

Abbott Laboratories • Plano, TX

18h • $68,000 - $136,000 • Onsite

About The Position

As the Supply Planner, you'll manage production planning for their assigned product(s). Position will be responsible for translating commercial demand and inventory strategies/targets into effective supply plans. Supply Planner will manage production plans that span multiple plants. Incumbent will be required to coordinate with Demand Planning, Operations and other planners to resolve plant scheduling conflicts and capacity constraints. The Supply Planner is primarily focused on the next 24 months horizon. Incumbent is expected to work independently, with regular support from department management supervision.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum of 6 years of related work experience with a complete understanding of specified functional area. Experience could be from Materials Management, Manufacturing, Planning, or combined experience.
• Comprehensive knowledge and application business concepts, procedures and practices.
• Uses in-depth knowledge of business unit functions and cross group dependencies/ relationships.
• Is recognized as an expert in work group.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment.
• Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
• Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Has broad knowledge of various technical alternatives and their potential impact on the business.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree
• APICS certification

Responsibilities

• Maintain internal and external customer service levels for products.
• Analyze plant throughput within customer service, capacity, efficiency, and inventory plan framework.
• Assist Program and Project management groups, project activity and schedule of new products, new processes, etc.
• Develop production plans for Plan and Update packages.
• Participate in decision-making meetings on plant manpower loading and/or premium labor (overtime-contract labor).
• Work directly with plants to perform Rough Cut Capacity Planning in support of 24 month planning horizon.
• Present at monthly meetings with plant and division operations to review and implement operations strategies.
• Understands business environment and relates extensive knowledge of internal and external activities to trends.
• Interfaces with a variety of management levels on significant matters, often requiring the coordination of activity across organizational units.
• Participates in the development of others by facilitating training and providing feedback and guidance.
• May lead a project team.
• Provides technical leadership to business units.
• Acts as a mentor to less-experienced staff.
• Exercises judgment independently.
• Plans and organizes project assignments of substantial variety and complexity.
• Initiates or maintains schedule for projects and project milestones.
• Establishes priorities of individual or project assignments.
• Selects methods and techniques to lead a project to completion.
• Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve organizational objectives.

Benefits

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees