Supply Chain Manager

6 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Abbott Laboratories Full time

**About Abbott**

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

**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 will have access to:

- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- 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.

**Supply Chain Manager**

This position is based in Johannesburg, South Africa in Abbott Nutrition Division.

**About Nutrition Division**

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow, to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands - including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, Glucerna® and ZonePerfect® - to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life.

As a Supply Chain Manager, you'll oversee and lead the full demand and supply planning. Customer services and logistics function. Overall responsibility is to ensure that the entire demand planning. Customer service and logistic function operates effectively and efficiently in the day-to-day function within the business as well as devise strategy, steer, lead and implement this strategy in the overall area.

Measurement of performance will be in the form of cost and service deliverables as well as effective leadership capability and resource succession planning. The role also involves a significant component of project management that will be key in delivering cost and service improvement initiatives.

**What You'll Do**:
Demand Planning Manager:

- Manage the overall demand planning and S&OP requirements for Abbott ANI including input to RLBE and forecast preparation. Responsible for Forecast Accuracy.
- Lead the country S&OP process, ensure regular scheduled meetings occur and ensure quality data on past performance and future forecast is available for S&OP review.
- Proposing of change to stock parameters considering MOQ and safety stock for area approval,
- Inventory management, including management of obsolescence
- Manage inventory requirements and seasonal changes to inventory holdings.
- Plan replenishment of product to maintain supply service levels, regular reporting of all business related and customer related KPI’s.
- Lead and manage a team of demand and supply planners
- Establish strong working relationships with marketing, sales, other key stakeholders to achieve the best service level.
- People development with training plan developed career path planning with full support in terms of performance.
- Planning of supply finished goods purchased to suppliers/intercompany and definition of an appropriate inventory strategy to achieve the desired service level.
- Ensure data accuracy in all systems used (BOBJ, SAP,BPCS/AS400)
- In collaboration with the marketing and finance areas, set DOH targets
- Supply tools to “forecast developers “, allowing them to make n analysis according to the market and company circumstances. Document assumptions and occurrences for each product family to facilitate the decision-making.
- Participate in the new product related meetings in order to determine their market projection s
- Prepares the S&OP deck for the monthly meetings
- Monitors forecast accuracy KPI’s

Logistics
- Lead and manage a team of logistics managers
- Ensure stock recons are in alignment & all remediations have been closed
- Project management of key cost and service improvement initiatives.
- General Operational excellence and compliance
- Create, lead and maintain a unique customer satisfaction development plan (Supply Chain) for each assigned top customer and manage its execution thereof.
- In line with plan, manage organizational Capabilities which will enable the market to deliver on targets, which include integrated warehousing and distribution operations, optimal freight cost management, selection and management of 3rd party business arrangements for warehousing, freight and operations and organizational development and capability

Customer Services
- Lead and manage a team of customer services executives and order entry where applicable
- Customer services - deliver best in class customer service to customer (e.g.: PNP, Shoprite, Clicks, Dis-Chem & Spar)
- Collaborates with key stakeholders and those who influence services performance; including commercials teams, supply planning, freight and warehousing service providers to address ways to improve cu

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