AdresseAbbott 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.
We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.
Primary Function:
- The Supply Chain Excellence Manager (Project Manager) supports the Area Supply Chain & Logistics organization in driving Operational Excellence, Standardization and Continuous Improvement for better customer experience and operational efficiency across the Asia Pacific region.
- Area in scope covers end to end Supply Chain (source to deliver) and from policy, workflow, process and systems
Major Responsibilities:
- The Supply Chain Excellence Manager (Project Manager) works with Area Supply Chain & Logistics Leader in translating strategy, vision and long-term goals into actionable plan
- Supports Area Supply Chain to identify productivity and cost improvement opportunities, to drive gross margin improvement initiatives for freight and distribution
- Engages business leader and cross-functional team by enforcing strong alignment between business objectives and operational goals
- Define project scope, goals, timelines and deliverables
- Identify resource requirement, require budget and the potential benefit
- Works with cross-functional team to assess and build up the required tasks, milestone and to assign Person-In-Charge for each task
- Executes and track project progress, identify risks, develop mitigation plans and ensure on-time completion
- Communicates project status, highlight associated risk and contingency to stakeholders, sponsors and leadership
- Works and collaborates with IT/SAP/AddOne to identify automation opportunity using system solution
- Drives a culture of continuous improvement in all aspect of Supply Chain
- Provides coaching, mentoring and training to Supply Chain
- Identify, coach & mentor potential talent on project management processes and techniques
- Participates in external conferences and seminars to keep current with industry best practices in project management, Supply Chain management and Logistics
- Assess business environment, dynamics and customer requirements to better equipped and aligned internal processes to improve customer experience
Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree in Supply Chain/Logistics/ Industrial Engineering or related disciplines
- Minimum 10 years of experience in Supply Chain and Logistics within medical device/healthcare/pharma industry
- Experienced in end to end Supply Chain from demand/supply/warehousing/order fulfillment/last mile delivery
- Experienced in project management, people management and change management
- Strong leadership / influencing skills and track record of driving projects in matrixed organizations
- Practical knowledge and experience with CI tools such as: Class A, Lean, Six Sigma, JI, DMAIC and similar tools and methods are preferred. Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified advantageous
- Good understanding of financial processes and be able to establish business cases, cost benefit analysis & ROI
- Self-starter, independent and able to navigate and identify work priorities in a complex and matrix environment
- Demonstrated teaching and coaching skills
- Comprehensive verbal and written analytical/problem solving, communication, negotiation, interpersonal and presentation skills
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