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About Abbott
For years, Abbott’s medical device businesses have offered technologies that are faster, more effective, and less invasive. Whether it’s glucose monitoring systems, innovative therapies for treating heart disease, or products that help people with chronic pain or movement disorders, our medical device technologies are designed to help people live their lives better and healthier. Every day, our technologies help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.
A healthy heart is essential to good health. That’s why we’re committed to advancing treatments for people with cardiovascular disease. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, our breakthrough medical technologies help restore people’s health so they can get back to living their best lives, faster. We focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.
Our location in Sylmar, CA, currently has an opportunity for a NPI Sourcing Specialist.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Working without appreciable supervision, you will have responsibility for sourcing of assigned parts and bill of materials in support of products/projects in the New Product Introduction timeline. Works with supplier base to purchase raw materials, schedule/expedite the delivery and track material/component support of the program. This position’s responsibilities include: product cost and timing of procured components; working with cross-functional project teams and other members of the Supply Chain team to achieve component COGS targets; adherence to tooling budgets; execution of established sourcing strategies; and meeting project schedules, project milestones and Phase Gate deliverables.
Main Responsibilities
- Participate in the development and maintenance of the production schedule, ensuring the availability of required resources to meet the production schedule.
- Generate purchase requisitions for materials to sustain manufacturing schedules.
- Monitors raw material and subassembly delivery dates and follows up as necessary.
- Helps to identify issues which may impact the manufacturing schedule and updates necessary personnel of the status.
- Negotiates routine purchases of raw materials and other expense items for the department.
- Maintains supplier/vendor relations and tracks associated supplier/vendor performance metrics.
- Reviews supplier/vendor performance metrics with management and partners to develop action plans.
- Updates the ERP/MRP as necessary and generates moderately complex reports for various team members.
- Identifies and executes plans related to continuous improvement.
- Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments.
- Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING
- Bachelors Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering or business preferred or an equivalent combination of education and work experience Minimum
- 5+ years In Engineering, planning and/or purchasing.
- 3+ years’ of medical device industry experience preferred
- 3+ years’ experience with MRP/ERP supply chain systems preferred.
- Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross-division business unit model preferred.
- Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.
- Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects.
- Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.
- Multitasks, prioritizes and meets deadlines in timely manner.
- Ability to travel up to 10%, including internationally.
- Strong organizational and follow-up skills, as well as attention to detail.
WHAT WE OFFER
- At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:
- Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
- Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
- Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs
- Paid time off
- 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
- The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities
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