Sr. Manager, Margin Improvement

1 month ago

Pleasanton, United States Abbott Laboratories Full time

Job Title

Sr. Manager, Margin Improvement - Heart Failure

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve peopleâs health. Weâre 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. Youâll also have access to:

  • Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
  • Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
  • 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 bachelorâs 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

This position works out of our Pleasanton, California location in Abbottâs Heart Failure Division. In Abbottâs Heart Failure (HF) business, weâre developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

As the Sr. Manager, Margin Improvement you will own the Margin & Profitability (M&P) program for the division, including Operations and Supply Chain. You will will lead and direct M&P PMO resources while collaborating across Business Unit leadership to drive and achieve division Margin goals.   Provide leadership and management of high impact change programs that significantly improve productivity and cost structure of the business.  The scope will include both long term planning and roadmap development, as well as short-term execution of critical projects and programs.  In this role you will have a direct report.

What Youâll Work On

  • Lead the division M&P governance process, including identification and execution of large scale / high impact initiatives and reporting of progress to Executive Steering committee.
  • Develop and execute long term strategy and roadmap for Gross Margin profile and gain alignment from divisional leadership team and key stakeholders to execute roadmap milestones.
  • Collaborate with Business Unit leadership to assign goals, develop project funnels, support execution, and manage/mitigate risks.
  • Establish, develop, and evolve Workstreams to address key areas of opportunity.
  • Develop and deploy sustaining tools and processes to support the evaluation and identification of opportunities across direct and indirect spend areas.
  • Ensures that high impact programs are defined, resourced and implemented in order to achieve financial objectives as defined by both the Annual and Long-Range Plans. - performing benchmarking and cost structure analysis to define significant opportunities for improvement.
  • Collaborate closely with Global Procurement and divisional business units, NPI, Operational Excellence etc. to ensure the success of short and long term margin commitments
  • Collaborate with the resource management team ensure appropriate resource allocation.
  • Support and lead any key strategic initiatives and integration activities being driven by the the division or corporate, where initiatives directly impact margin profile.
  • Manage large-scale global supply chain projects to reduce costs, reduce inventory investment, improve/streamline "go to market" strategies/processes and/or improve service to customers.
  • Previous supervisory experience.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor Degree in Business, Finance or Engineering.
  • 10+ yearâs progressive work experience experience in consumer packaged goods, healthcare or medical devices Industry, or similar, managing Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain Management and/or finance.
  • 3+ years work experience managing operations and/or large ($10MM+) programs across multiple International locations.

  • Strong communications and negotiation skills, sensitive to cultural differences while having ability to influence key stakeholders.

  • Ability to work with multiple stakeholders product division, IT organization, sales management and marketing organization to drive improvement in our operating metrics.

  • Strong conflict resolution skills to achieve results through cross functional groups.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills w/ ability to prioritize, multi-task & adapt to changing demands

  • Strong conflict resolution skills to achieve results through cross functional groups.
  • Proficient in the following IT environments: MS Excel, SAP ECC, SAP APO, Business Objects, Business Warehouse & Hyperion Enterprise

Preferred Qualifications

  • MBA
  • Six Sigma Blackbelt
  • Ability to pull the appropriate functional and geographic functions together to support initiatives.

Apply Now

* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. 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 on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.



The base pay for this position is $144,100.00 â $288,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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