Supply Chain and Transportation Analyst

at  Abbott Laboratories

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.

What You’ll Do:

• Implement most adequate logistics strategy to maximize service level towards internal and external customers.
• Manage and deploy logistics initiatives and set up metrics for follow up
• Evaluate supplier performance in terms of service and spend according to budget and KPI’s
• Perform simulations for new scenarios and vendors
• Coordinate bottom-up freight budget elaboration and follow up on monthly spend towards this budget
• Identify and deploy process improvements to increase productivity or cost-efficiency without jeopardizing quality compliance and service level
• KPI’s: develop and maintain reporting/ dashboards and measures.

Qualifications:

• University degree, with a minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar position, preferably in transportation/ analytics or healthcare industry
• Detailed knowledge of major ERP system (SAP preferred) and/or some TMS system
• Proficient knowledge of Excel, experience in reporting tools as Business Objects, Power query, powerBI and Microsoft Automate is a strong asset.
• Transport pricing knowledge, mainly parcel and air freight, is an asset.
• Experience in Lean tools and methodology is an asset.
• Team player and customer oriented
• Strong communication skills and presentation skills
• Flexibility, including work time schedules and travel
• Fluent in English, written and spoken; Dutch is an asset

• Implement most adequate logistics strategy to maximize service level towards internal and external customers.
• Manage and deploy logistics initiatives and set up metrics for follow up
• Evaluate supplier performance in terms of service and spend according to budget and KPI’s
• Perform simulations for new scenarios and vendors
• Coordinate bottom-up freight budget elaboration and follow up on monthly spend towards this budget
• Identify and deploy process improvements to increase productivity or cost-efficiency without jeopardizing quality compliance and service level
• KPI’s: develop and maintain reporting/ dashboards and measures