Finance Lead, Demand Planning

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The objective of the US Demand Planning team is to monitor and maintain the stability of Abbvie products in the U.S. supply channel, ensure the equitable allocation of product to customers and provide business insights on product purchase trends across key brands.  The primary areas of focus for the Demand Planning organization are to interact with key stakeholders involved in both the production and order fulfillment of product in the supply chain, administer applicable Wholesaler Distribution Service Agreements, manage wholesaler data for sales analytics, and provide wholesaler purchase trend insights on “to-market” brand performance.

This position will primarily support 11 Regional Wholesalers and Demand Planning Systems, while also assisting the Associate Director with Balance Sheet and Audit & Compliance Support. The Finance Lead will need to develop strong knowledge of the business across his / her area of responsibility and must objectively determine the impact of changing business conditions on the order fulfillment process.  The Finance Lead must have the ability to communicate concisely and proactively, while establishing effective cross functional relationships with Trade, Customer Service, Transportation, Warehousing, Forecasting and Operations.

Major Responsibilities :

I.    Regional Wholesale Support :

• Order Fulfillment :   Perform review of product orders vs. historical customer purchase trends, customer inventory DOH levels of the brand and internal availability of product.  Must possess the ability to quickly reach out to stakeholders, build consensus and execute under tight timelines.
• Support the Administration of Distribution Service Agreements (DSA) :   Per contract terms, evaluate distributor business performance in the categories of purchase stability behavior, inventory DOH levels, order fulfillment rates to downstream customers and timely submissions / accuracy of product movement data submitted via EDI; calculate quarterly performance fees to determine amount earned or owed by the customer, and complete payment authorization process to ensure payment is issued to or received from the customer.
• Reporting and Analytics :   This position will be responsible for independently developing and maintaining reporting tools used to monitor and track daily and weekly submissions of product movement data submitted via EDI by distributors for all US products.  These reports will provide insights of “to-market” sales performance and will be critical in assisting Trade in ensuring product availability across the distribution channel.
• Allocation Reviews : This position will be responsible for reviewing the weekly / monthly Allocation (Purchase) Limits that are set at the specialty distributors for their customers.  Such Allocations Limits provide stability in the purchasing patterns & help avoid speculative purchases resulting in a more stable supply / availability of AbbVie products.

II.   Systems Support : The Demand Planning team utilizes standard financial systems such as BIP, BPC, and  SAP, as well as multiple data repositories including Cognos / Fusion and IntegriChain. This position will                support the Associate Director in maintaining accuracy and alignment across these platforms,          troubleshooting data integrity issues, and contributing to key system initiatives and enhancements.

III.  Balance Sheet Support : Serving as the backup to the Associate Director, this role would assist with various.  Balance Sheet activities, including reconciliation of wholesale accrual balances to ensure liabilities are properly reflected, and forecasting future liabilities for all planning cycles (Plan, LRP, LBEs and Key Plus Minus).

IV.  Audit & Compliance Support : This position will also assist the Associate Director with internal and external audit and compliance requests that span all aspects of Demand Planning activities while confirming adherence to established processes and maintaining thorough documentation for continued operational excellence.

Qualifications

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law :  ​

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),  medical / dental / vision  insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

Note : No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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