Purpose
Own the coordination of the Inventory plan setting within Supply Chain Planning and all associated follow on activities. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to ensure efficiency and predictability. Further enhance the capability to project and optimize inventories across our key supply chains. Enable accurate inventory data availability for all key stakeholders and enable benchmarking between brands to drive best-in-class at all levels of the organization. Partner with finance functions to understand financial inventory impact. Assist in creating global inventory management policies and implementing supply chain strategies focusing on inventory optimization. 

NOTE: This is a hybrid role in North Chicago (3 days onsite / 2 days remote) 

Responsibilities

• Provide advisory role to affiliates/brand planning to apply relevant inventory parameters
  (Minimum Order Quantity and Safety Stock) at all affiliates, manufacturing plants and
  planning centers to optimize customer service with right inventory levels.
• Drive the short dated/excess inventory review process to mitigate any risk on obsolescence
  and/or collaborate with finance to create reserves.
• Initiate and support the (automatically) monthly inventory reporting at both a local and net of margin level in USD alongside active units; analyze actuals vs. Plan/LBE & actively work
  with key stakeholders to understand drivers for variance.
• Accountable to create inventory projections within multiple subsets such as location,
  product, brand for future planning and strategic direction and manage the review process
  with the brand planners.
• Drive the overall Inventory plan setting process, monitoring performance and following
  through on resulting actions with Planning Managers and Finance. Enhance the inventory
  projection and optimization capability within Supply Chain Planning from a process, system and skillset standpoint.
• Consolidate all global inventory Plan/Update/Long Range Plan data and benchmark against
  previous cycle and drive analytics on the data to enable right decisions on AbbVie inventory position.