Buyer Planner

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.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Sylmar, CA location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management division.

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

The Buyer Planner will be responsible for obtaining materials, components, and equipment. Process requisitions and create Purchase Order (PO) execute
transactions in an efficient, accurate manner, and according to Division and Corporate policies. Work closely with Category
Managers, site Material Planners, and key partners in the Division. Execute procure to pay (P2P) processes within the sourcing
team. Provide vendor reliability data, monitor cost, and scope of assigned subcontracts to assure best quality at best value.
Minimize the total cost of transactions without affecting service levels.

• Creates and processes purchase orders, direct and indirect, in accordance with documented procurement processes to include, subcontract purchase orders, third party manufacturing orders, and purchase order changes.

• Executes procurement plans, reports supplier performance, aligns with contracts, and processes purchase requests, while ensuring the timely and uninterrupted flow of materials between suppliers and site.

• Communicates with Management and Stakeholders purchase order status. manages orders through completion and executes closures once fulfilled.

• Interacts with suppliers and is responsible for maintaining and, enhancing good business relationship between Abbott and suppliers. communicate component specifications to suppliers.

• Mitigate invoicing issues.

• Updates vendor performance data. supports development of supplier scorecards and Service Level Agreements (SLA).

• Manage the implementation of suppliers (including ensuring the ordering of appropriate first articles and validations).

• Facilitate cost savings and quality improvement projects through purchasing.

• Manages material master data in SAP.

• Uses continuous improvement to establish metrics, drive KPIs, standardize and automate tactical activities over time.

• Support site projects that contribute to organizational goals.

• Provides audit support of purchasing policies and procedures.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree OR an equivalent combination of education and work experience

• Minimum 2 years Related work experience

• A good understanding of specified functional area. General knowledge and basic application of business concepts, procedures and practices. Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.

• Learns to use professional concepts and company policies and procedures to solve routine problems. Works on problems of limited scope. Minimal independent decision making.

• General knowledge and application of procurement concepts, procedures, and practices.-

• Contracting and supplier management - Commercial and contracting terms and negotiations - Procurement tools - Master data management.

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