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.

Planning 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.

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.

The Opportunity
This position works out of our Abbott Park, IL (Lake Bluff, IL) location in the Transfusion Medicine Business. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

As the Planning Manager, you’ll have the chance to manage a team of production planners ensuring worldwide product availability for all of ADD's Lake County manufactured finished kits and lower-level components. This is done supporting the ADD policy of improving health care by providing high quality, safe and effective diagnostic products. The team will achieve this objective by balancing several dynamic and conflicting elements including cycle time management, inventory management, capacity planning, distressed inventory management, technical challenges, and productivity while maintaining the highest level of compliance. More specifically, the planning team develops materially feasible production plans that will ensure the highest level of customer service, maintain finished goods safety stock levels and manage production requirements for worldwide affiliates who source material from Lake County. This plan must also meet financial, SCOP, and inventory objectives.

What You’ll Work On

Translate inputs from affiliate/Division demand and technical meetings into a materially feasible production plan that ensures customer satisfaction along with responsible inventory investment.

Develop contingency plans in advance to facilitate immediate action in response to sales/inventory changes and daily production issues that negatively impact the production plan.

Define production strategy during product transitions including product launches, discontinuations, conversions and transfers.

Maintain planned distressed inventory profile.

Maintain 99%+ finished kit product availability.

Set monthly game plan to achieve SCOP projections.

Maintain affiliate component delivery performance.

Immediately communicate all product availability issues to manager.

Meet all site target inventory levels  for finished goods and rare reagents codes and pipelines.

Staff Accountability: 4 direct reports.

Required Qualifications

Bachelors Degree in Life Science/Math/Business or equivalent experience in Production Planning/PAC.

Minimum 6 years planning experience and/or equivalent supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Full knowledge of MRP, MPS, Factory Planner. Demonstrated ability to work with database software. Project management experience is desired.

APICS certification preferred.

Masters Degree is desired.

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The base pay for this position is $97,300.00 – $194,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.