2027 Procurement Early Career

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 59,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Procurement Specialist to execute source-to-contract procurement processes, ensuring policy compliance and contributing to supplier diversity and sustainability. The role involves supporting supplier management activities, driving continuous improvement, and delivering procurement excellence across sites.

Key responsibilities include alignment with category strategies, contract execution, risk mitigation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Experience enabling procurement processes including source-to-contract planning and cost assessment.
• Experience in bidding and negotiation processes.
• Ability to manage supplier relationships aligning with business needs.
• Strong analytical and communication skills for stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Assist with source-to-contract procurement processes aligned to business goals and category strategy.
• Maintain compliance with procurement policies and sustainability diversity programs.
• Drive supplier management activities and collaborate with category managers.
• Support risk mitigation and communicate procurement risks to safeguard operations.
• Support contract execution, identify process inefficiencies, and suggest improvements.
• Lead continuous improvement projects within the PSC team.
• Develop procurement capabilities following learning path and contribute to team goals.

Skills

Source-to-contract planning

Cost assessment

Negotiation

Supplier relationships

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Decision making

Procurement strategy

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management or related field

Job description

• Compensation: USD 58,656 - USD 103,500 - yearly

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , X and YouTube.

Job Description

The Procurement Specialist is responsible for executing source-to-contract procurement processes in alignment with business goals and industry best practices, ensuring compliance with procurement policies, and contributing to supplier diversity and sustainability. This role plays a key part in assisting with supplier management activities, implementing continuous improvement projects, and driving day-to-day supplier excellence.

Responsibilities

• Assist with source to contract procurement processes in line with business goals and industry best practices, ensuring alignment with defined category strategic vision.
• Maintain compliance with procurement policy and team activities to business requirements of supplier diversity and sustainability, executing tactical processes to create value
• Drive supplier management activities in alignment to category SRM strategy and for site-owned supplier relationships, fostering a collaborative and innovative approach to supplier interactions, including lower risk negotiations and workshops.
• Adhere to risk mitigation plans developed in collaboration with Category Managers, providing tactical input on supplier performance and relaying the identification of procurement risks to safeguard the organization’s interest and maintain operational resilience.
• Maintain excellence in all contract execution activities including source to contract and requisition to pay, implementing strategies to identify inefficiencies in process design and execution.
• Execute continuous improvement projects initiated by PSC team, embracing and furthering a spirit of adaptability and innovation in procurement operations
• Develop own capabilities and accumulates procurement expertise in accordance with individual learning path.
• Actively assist in enabling team goals, ensuring performance targets and objectives are delivered successfully.

Qualifications

• Specific and tactical expertise in enabling implementation of procurement processes, including source-to-contract planning and cost assessment, ensuring strategic and informed procurement decisions.
• Previous experience in the respective procurement area.
• Ability to enable the bidding and negotiation processes.
• Capacity and experience assisting with collaborative supplier relationships, aligning procurement activities with business needs.
• Innovative problem-solving skills combined with a solution-oriented mindset, enabling creative approaches and clear communication at all organizational levels.
• Cross-functional collaboration abilities and teamwork skills, effectively navigating diverse team dynamics.
• Strong soft skills and emotional intelligence, facilitating empathetic interactions, effective communication, and relationship-building.
• Impactful abilities and strong work ethic, maintaining efficient performance in challenging situations and building consensus in decision-making.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management or related field or a minimum of 3 years of experience in procurement, supply chain or related business or operations function
• Previous experience in procurement activities including source to contract, requisition to pay, and negotiation

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at thetimeofthis posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographiclocation,andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipatein our short-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.Theamountandavailabilityof anybonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company'ssoleandabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.