Senior S&OP & S&OE Process Leader

AbbVie

Zwolle

On-site

EUR 90,000 - 140,000

Full time

40 hours ago

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Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Director-level professional to lead S&OP governance and process design across Europe Therapeutics. You will champion S&OP/ S&OE, drive process adherence, and coordinate with Global Operations, Commercial and Finance to ensure peak business performance.

The role emphasizes collaboration, data analytics, and transformational change to meet business objectives. You will partner with stakeholders to drive continuous improvement, implement training, and support performance metrics

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in preferred fields such as business, operations management, finance, science or engineering, or related degree.
Experience in Pharmaceutical or Operations preferred.
Proven experience fostering collaboration across cross-functional organizations while influencing without authority.
Experience in formal S&OP and, or S&OE processes.
Strong analytics skills, identifying trends, and making informed decisions.
Effective leadership with executive presence and proven presentation and communication (oral & written) skills.
System experience across JDA (or other Demand Planning software), SAP (or other ERP systems), and QlikSense (or other reporting tools) preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop, implement, and drive process adherence of S&OP/S&OE between Operations and specified Commercial and Finance Area senior-leadership and affiliates.
Drive governance of S&OP/S&OE processes and manage cross-functional interdependencies to address governance, compliance, deviations and issues.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the S&OP/ S&OE processes by identifying challenges, implementing best practices, and leveraging leading class methodologies, technologies and data analytics to optimize planning and decision making.
Partner, negotiate and influence without authority to senior-level stakeholders to drive alignment and support S&OP/S&OE implementation across Commercial, Finance, and Operations.
Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to strategize business objectives and develop a continuous improvement roadmap.
Build and maintain strong cross-functional stakeholder relationships by effectively influencing without direct authority, while collaborating with the technology team on system improvements that drive simplification and efficiency through automation.
Collaborate with the Training and Change Management team to develop training and support materials and conduct training sessions as a SME when needed.
Facilitate performance metric development and monitor Commercial Area of responsibility, identifying areas of improvement.