Business Planning Senior Manager, ANI LATAM

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists

 

The Opportunity

Provide and execute on the vision and strategy. Responsible for providing oversight, leadership and direction to the Regional S&OP process, Demand Planning consolidation, and Sales FP&A management. Deliver a demand-based sales forecast for all LATAM countries and portfolio, enabling maximum customer service level and resource utilization. Reconciles Abbott and customers’ inventory levels, Days on Hand, To-Market Sales, In-Market Sales, and off-take information with all available Market data to improve forecast, monitor for Actuals, ensure hygiene, and challenge the business. Supports the business to understand underlying revenue performance and actively participates in identifying and proactively mitigating supply risks. Ensure organizational alignment with the global demand planning process by fostering awareness, visibility, and process discipline throughout the organization; Direct supervision of 1 HC (grade 17), Indirect supervision over 9 affiliate Demand Planning Managers (grades 15-18), influence over Finance FP&A and Commercial teams.

 

What You’ll Work On

 Main Responsibilities

• Lead monthly Area S&OP processes including but not limited to Consensus forecast, cross-functional assumption alignment and management review presentations.
• Monthly sales forecast and influence those outside of direct control, resolving conflicts across the functions.
• Work cross functionally to achieve organizational goals and coordinate with GMs / Commercial teams to develop product lifecycle and transition strategies for new products and flexible strategies to accommodate uncertainty.
• Develop and align organization around standard set of procedures and drive adherence to accountability.
• Ability to perform as PMO. Support project teams to ensure project success.
• Generate predictable forecast to maximize resource allocation and investment decisions, including but not limited to tight inventory management, reduce distressed inventory, etc.
• Monitor and recommend modifications to service metrics and safety stock levels.
• Performs Channel DOH and customer’s inventory levels audits.
• Responsible for communicating product supply including decisions to reposition inventory to minimize customer backorders. Develop and implement contingency plans in response to unexpected changes in demand/supply, provides timely assessment updates and formulate solutions.
• Interpret ambiguous data, draw conclusions, and provide recommendations.
• Gather market insights to challenge sales assumptions and perform constant triangulation of To-Mkt Sales, In-Mkt Sales, CDOH / stock in trade, to validate financials planning assumptions.
• Responsible for Revenue FP&A, leading the effort to understand sales underlying performance and supports the action generation for acceleration.
• Support the business with price strategy and gross to net optimization.
• Supports LATAM Sr Finance Director with sales positioning communication for Top Management and Abbott Corporate Executives, helping the team to brand the region and clearly articulate the sales strategy and action.
• Leads the region to improve customer’s inventory data availability, analysis and reporting and builds capabilities across the region to ensure that such data is accurate and used for Sales Planning.
• Partners with Business Intelligence for 5-Factors Analysis (IMS, TMS, SIT, Market, Investment).
• Responsible for area PMO, continues improvement and simplification initiatives.

 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, business or engineering. Post graduate studies is ideal.
• 10+ years of related finance and demand planning experience

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in both Region-Global and Affiliate Finance and Demand Planning.
• Evaluate complex problems where analysis of processes, situations and/or data involve multiple competing factors and to provide risk-based mitigation plans.
• Establish strategic direction and lead forecasting-analysis-solve change; ability to lead and influence with and without direct authority and higher levels in the organization.
• Ability to confront and resolve conflict and lead efforts to resolve critical situations while communicates clearly, concisely, and accurately.
• Summarize and present recommendations and solutions to the Regional Management team.
• Develop interpersonal and professional relations; displays socially and professionally appropriate behavior.
• Ability to work independently and in groups and demonstrate initiative and problem-solving skills.
• Experience translating insights into forecast and decision making and to collaborate with Business Intelligence group.

 

 

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The base pay for this position is

$129,300.00 – $258,700.00

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

     

JOB FAMILY:

Supply Chain

     

DIVISION:

ANI International Nutrition

        

LOCATION:

United States > Abbott Park : AP06C

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Not specified

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

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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