Inventory Deployment Planner - Nutrition - Columbus, OH

Abbott Laboratories; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 75,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Inventory Deployment Planner, where your expertise in supply chain and logistics will drive efficiency and customer satisfaction. In this role, you will collaborate with various departments to ensure seamless product movement through a multi-tiered distribution network. Your analytical skills will be key in managing inventory and mitigating risks, while your problem-solving abilities will help enhance operational processes. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow within a globally recognized organization that values diversity and innovation, offering a supportive environment for your professional development.

Benefits

Free medical coverage

Excellent retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Student debt program

Education benefits

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• 3+ years in supply chain, logistics, or inventory deployment planning preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Supply Chain Operations required.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute product movement through a multi-tiered distribution network.
• Collaborate with various departments to ensure product availability.
• Analyze data and manage inventory balances across network sites.

Skills

Problem-solving skills

Critical thinking skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Continuous improvement mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Operations

Tools

ERP system

Planning/work order systems

Job description

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Inventory Deployment Planner

Working at Abbott

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, and Glucerna – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

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

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Columbus, OH location in the Nutrition Division.

Primary Function / Primary Goals / Objectives:

The primary responsibility of the Inventory Deployment Planner is to plan and execute the movement of product through a multi-tiered distribution network to support customer demand at each shipping site. This function includes collaborating and managing relationships with Production Planning, Third Party Manufacturing, Quality Systems, Customer Service, Demand Planning, Transportation, and Warehousing, among other departments to ensure product is produced, released, and positioned as needed to support customer demand, maintain customer fill rate goals, support budgetary goals, and drive network efficiencies to reduce cost and increase service.

What You’ll Work On

• Analyze data inputs from multiple sources to plan and execute the efficient movement of product through a multi-tiered distribution network to enable customer order fulfillment and minimize the risk of cuts at each site.
• Collaborate with Production Planning, Quality Systems, Customer Service, Demand Planning, Transportation, and Warehousing, among other departments to provide end-to-end process oversight and input ensuring inventory is produced, released, and positioned to support demand and maintain customer fill rate goals.
• Compile and assess available data sources and communicate all product availability risk and supply related issues to management and impacted areas. Liaise with relevant departments to make recommendations on the best solution for the business to ensure product is available to the customers.
• Micromanage product shortage situations, working with applicable departments to reduce negative customer impacts.
• Coordinate with all Logistics teams to ensure loads are meeting expected on-time performance, manage system order dates, and communicate any customer service risks accordingly.
• Responsible for identifying opportunities for continuous improvements in the logistic processes.
• Review and update SOPs to ensure accuracy.
• Responsible for analyzing and taking necessary action to maintain inventory balances of managed SKUs across all network sites to ensure effective usage of inventory supporting order fulfillment goals and preventing E&O risk.
• Maintain accuracy of Planning information in ERP system.
• Partner with key stakeholders to minimize and dispose of slow moving, obsolete, and expiring inventory.
• Safeguard the environment and facilitate a safe and healthy workplace culture.
• Collaborate with Warehouse contacts and Capacity Managers to evaluate space constraints and execute deployment needed to maintain safe and efficient warehouse operations.
• Coordinate with all Logistics teams to maximize carrier and warehouse schedule capacities while supporting logistics budgetary goals.
• Maintain positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities, on occasion, as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Supply Chain Operations or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with planning/work order systems.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in supply chain, logistics, or inventory deployment planning preferred.

Preferred

• Exceptional problem-solving skills.
• Critical thinking skills.
• Clear, concise verbal and written communications.
• High level of accountability and reliability.
• Demonstrates ability to work productively as a team.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Ease of operating in high stress, big decision situations.
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• Ability to influence a team in a positive way in relation to performance, change, and culture.
• Demonstrate broad knowledge of Abbott’s business and how department processes/responsibilities interconnect.

MISC:

• This is an on-site role - not a remote role.
• There is no relocation provided for this role.

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The base pay for this position is $75,300.00 – $150,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.