Supervisor Logistics at Abbott Laboratories

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.

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’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 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 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.

The Opportunity

Our Diagnostics business currently has an opportunity for a Supervisor Logistics in our North Chicago, IL Location. The Supervisor Logistics will be responsible for developing and maintaining, cost effective distribution systems that meet our customer's high service requirements. This person will be responsible for specific projects on inbound and outbound shipments for ADD globally which drive down costs, improve cycle time, and customer performance and supervising a team in the logistics and transportation group. Create and implement departmental training programs, assure adherence to it, and represent dept. in GMP audits. Plan, direct, and monitor domestic and international transportation activities, while providing the best cost/service mix for shipments to/from our customers, suppliers, and affiliates (world-wide). 

What You’ll Work On

• Maintains compliance to all government regulations dealing with export, transportation, packaging and labeling of materials for transport.
• Investigates failure in the internal distribution systems to include damage, missed delivery and wrong delivery and corrects when required.
• Serve as initial contact for departmental systems questions. 
• Assure training program is kept up to date with current requirements.
• Work with International accounting to assure accurate invoicing. 
• Responsible for understanding divisional training requirements and supervise in developing programs to assure they are met.
• Analyze business requirements and assure systems adequately provide for them. 
• Understand Distribution Operations flow to assure international affiliate, supplier, and U.S. customer requirements are met. 
• Develops tactical plans for material flow improvements supporting the strategic plan.
• Integrates and manages complex projects across internal and external resources.
• Drives the improvement of supplier and site-specific metrics and KPI’s.
• Serves as leader, contributor, facilitator, consultant, technical expert, evaluator according to the needs of the team and task.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 4 years of experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 years of International Logistics experience.
• Experience managing people is a plus.
• Experience in healthcare industry with a global scope is a plus.
• Willing to take on challenges and has a can-do attitude towards overcoming those challenges.
• Self-motivated

Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully:  http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx. Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides growth and strength to build your future. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott, and Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal. 

The base pay for this position is $83,000.00 – $166,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.