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Buyer/Planner
Sligo, Connacht
Abbott
Posted 26 days ago
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**About Abbott**
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
**Abbott in Ireland**
Abbott has been operating in Ireland since 1946 and serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, diabetes care, medical devices and nutritional products. In Ireland, Abbott currently employs about 6,000 people across ten sites located in Dublin, Donegal, Clonmel, Cootehill, Galway, Kilkenny, Longford and Sligo.
**Abbott Ireland Nutrition Sligo**
We understand that proper nutrition is the foundation for living the best life possible. That's why we develop science-based nutrition products for people of all ages. Our products help babies and children grow, keep bodies strong and active, and support the unique nutrition needs of people with chronic illnesses - to make every stage of life a healthy one.
Abbott is a leader in providing enteral nutrition feeding devices, including enteral feeding pumps and pump sets. Enteral feeding (also known as tube feeding) is a means of providing nutrition to people who cannot obtain nutrition by swallowing. Enteral nutrition contains all the calories and vitamins a person needs.
Abbott's journey in Ireland began in 1974 with our first manufacturing facility in Sligo. Over the years, we've transformed from manual operations to a state-of-the-art, fully automated facility. Now located in Carbury Point, Finisklin, Sligo, our award-winning site is recognized for operational excellence, safety, training, and community involvement. The prestigious Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence highlights our commitment to continuous improvement and a culture of excellence, delivering sustainable results year after year.
**Primary Function / Goals / Objectives**
Reporting to the Planning and Purchasing Manager, your key responsibilities will include:
+ Responsibility for MPS & MRP for raw material, intermediate and finished goods.
+ Manage the Purchasing function to ensure material supply in line with plant schedules.
+ Coordinate the purchasing process and work with NPI activities.
+ BOM / Item Master Management
+ CRM and primary point of contact for distribution centre
+ Scenario planning
+ Coordinate materials aspect for NPI's
+ Work with Supply chain members to meet target performance on KPIs
+ Inventory Management and Control(including cycle count process)
+ Liaise with transportation companies regarding deliveries
+ Schedule deliveries within warehouse capacities
+ Project implementation in line with specific goals
+ The position will require communication with the following:
+ Contacts with all levels of management within the plant.
+ Contacts with Abbott personnel in other affiliates especially in planning shipping/distribution/marketing.
+ Coordinate purchased materials to support production and meet product cost within the framework of Abbott Code of Business and applicable laws.
+ Co-ordinate purchase of non-inventory items required to meet plant operation at lowest total cost of ownership levels
**Education/Skills/Knowledge:**
+ Certificate/Diploma/Degree in a related discipline, or IPICS / IIPMM. Appropriate qualification in either Purchasing/ Production Planning e.g. Diploma in Purchasing or relevant APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society) examinations.
+ Excellent Computer skills.
+ Excellent planning and organizational skills.
+ Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
+ Excellent attention to detail.
+ Appropriate qualification in either Purchasing/ Production Planning e.g. Diploma in Purchasing or relevant APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society) examinations.
+ At least two years' experience in production planning in a manufacturing company, preferably previous experience with planning short shelf life products.
+ A high level of expertise is required in solving scheduling, logistics, expediting and purchasing problems.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call or email
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
**Abbott in Ireland**
Abbott has been operating in Ireland since 1946 and serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, diabetes care, medical devices and nutritional products. In Ireland, Abbott currently employs about 6,000 people across ten sites located in Dublin, Donegal, Clonmel, Cootehill, Galway, Kilkenny, Longford and Sligo.
**Abbott Ireland Nutrition Sligo**
We understand that proper nutrition is the foundation for living the best life possible. That's why we develop science-based nutrition products for people of all ages. Our products help babies and children grow, keep bodies strong and active, and support the unique nutrition needs of people with chronic illnesses - to make every stage of life a healthy one.
Abbott is a leader in providing enteral nutrition feeding devices, including enteral feeding pumps and pump sets. Enteral feeding (also known as tube feeding) is a means of providing nutrition to people who cannot obtain nutrition by swallowing. Enteral nutrition contains all the calories and vitamins a person needs.
Abbott's journey in Ireland began in 1974 with our first manufacturing facility in Sligo. Over the years, we've transformed from manual operations to a state-of-the-art, fully automated facility. Now located in Carbury Point, Finisklin, Sligo, our award-winning site is recognized for operational excellence, safety, training, and community involvement. The prestigious Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence highlights our commitment to continuous improvement and a culture of excellence, delivering sustainable results year after year.
**Primary Function / Goals / Objectives**
Reporting to the Planning and Purchasing Manager, your key responsibilities will include:
+ Responsibility for MPS & MRP for raw material, intermediate and finished goods.
+ Manage the Purchasing function to ensure material supply in line with plant schedules.
+ Coordinate the purchasing process and work with NPI activities.
+ BOM / Item Master Management
+ CRM and primary point of contact for distribution centre
+ Scenario planning
+ Coordinate materials aspect for NPI's
+ Work with Supply chain members to meet target performance on KPIs
+ Inventory Management and Control(including cycle count process)
+ Liaise with transportation companies regarding deliveries
+ Schedule deliveries within warehouse capacities
+ Project implementation in line with specific goals
+ The position will require communication with the following:
+ Contacts with all levels of management within the plant.
+ Contacts with Abbott personnel in other affiliates especially in planning shipping/distribution/marketing.
+ Coordinate purchased materials to support production and meet product cost within the framework of Abbott Code of Business and applicable laws.
+ Co-ordinate purchase of non-inventory items required to meet plant operation at lowest total cost of ownership levels
**Education/Skills/Knowledge:**
+ Certificate/Diploma/Degree in a related discipline, or IPICS / IIPMM. Appropriate qualification in either Purchasing/ Production Planning e.g. Diploma in Purchasing or relevant APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society) examinations.
+ Excellent Computer skills.
+ Excellent planning and organizational skills.
+ Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
+ Excellent attention to detail.
+ Appropriate qualification in either Purchasing/ Production Planning e.g. Diploma in Purchasing or relevant APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society) examinations.
+ At least two years' experience in production planning in a manufacturing company, preferably previous experience with planning short shelf life products.
+ A high level of expertise is required in solving scheduling, logistics, expediting and purchasing problems.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call or email
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Category Manager
Kilkenny, Leinster
Abbott
Posted 26 days ago
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**About Abbott**
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional's and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
**About Abbott Diabetes Care**
Abbott is the global leader in Diabetes Care with the number one continuous glucose monitor worldwide. We are delivering breakthroughs for people living with diabetes with the highest level of accuracy in our unmatched sensing technology, we have more than 7 million Freestyle Libre users globally.
**This is how you can make a difference at Abbott:**
In this important role, you will lead category sourcing initiatives focusing on Packaging, encompassing local, domestic and international purchasing opportunities. You will be establishing, articulating, and implementing sourcing strategies, with an emphasis on introducing new suppliers to support the expansion in Kilkenny. This entails obtaining program buy-in from various stakeholder organizations, managing project plans, identifying the resources to support the objectives, and driving projects through complex sourcing processes, ensuring end results meet the requirements of all organisations impacted.
To fulfil this role, you will need a proactive approach that is relationship oriented, customer focused, analytical and data-driven, creative and committed to continuous improvement. Experience in working on new supplier onboarding is a plus.
**What You'll Be Doing:** **:**
+ Overall strategic ownership of suppliers/commodities within the Packaging category.
+ Working closely with business stakeholders in Corporate and Divisional functions to enable business continuity, including driving implementation plans.
+ Nurturing stakeholder relationships by serving as a strong business partner, helping to identify business critical needs and requirements while providing operational support that meets immediate and long-term demands.
+ Being a strategic representative of Abbott, across disciplines, industry and within the community.
+ Proactively identify areas of opportunity for business process improvement.
+ Providing insights to business units on how to optimize and refine Abbott and Supplier processes to improve effectiveness.
+ Influencing business units to align with strategic initiatives that enable effective operational efficiencies across the enterprise.
+ Effective operational leader capable of driving effectiveness for the category.
+ Ability to assess overall needs and react to anticipated and unanticipated disruptions.
+ Driving financial performance thorough supply base management, and category capability building.
+ Strong cost focus, delivering savings, managing negotiations and escalations, and driving value add / value engineering analysis.
+ Influencing and partnering with business leaders to manage and align business needs and requirements for the category.
+ Monitoring global market dynamics and anticipating business critical actions that may be required for business continuity.
+ Being a key relationship manager with category suppliers, driving risk management, and enhanced development of a flexible agile supply base.
**Qualifications and experience**
+ Degree in related discipline.
+ At least 5+ years of combined / related experience in a procurement / buying / category management role.
+ Industry experience in paper packaging / labels - preferable.
+ Experience in a manufacturing environment preferable.
+ Effective relationship building skills, capable of engaging stakeholders at all levels.
+ CIPS qualification (or equivalent) -preferable
**What's in it for you:**
+ Pension
+ Healthcare
+ Bonus
+ Life insurance
+ Disability insurance
+ Paid maternity leave
+ Parental leave
+ Adoptive leave
+ Flexible working
Connect with us at or , on LinkedIn at , on Facebook at and on Twitter @AbbottNews.
Abbott is an equal opportunities employer
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call or email
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional's and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
**About Abbott Diabetes Care**
Abbott is the global leader in Diabetes Care with the number one continuous glucose monitor worldwide. We are delivering breakthroughs for people living with diabetes with the highest level of accuracy in our unmatched sensing technology, we have more than 7 million Freestyle Libre users globally.
**This is how you can make a difference at Abbott:**
In this important role, you will lead category sourcing initiatives focusing on Packaging, encompassing local, domestic and international purchasing opportunities. You will be establishing, articulating, and implementing sourcing strategies, with an emphasis on introducing new suppliers to support the expansion in Kilkenny. This entails obtaining program buy-in from various stakeholder organizations, managing project plans, identifying the resources to support the objectives, and driving projects through complex sourcing processes, ensuring end results meet the requirements of all organisations impacted.
To fulfil this role, you will need a proactive approach that is relationship oriented, customer focused, analytical and data-driven, creative and committed to continuous improvement. Experience in working on new supplier onboarding is a plus.
**What You'll Be Doing:** **:**
+ Overall strategic ownership of suppliers/commodities within the Packaging category.
+ Working closely with business stakeholders in Corporate and Divisional functions to enable business continuity, including driving implementation plans.
+ Nurturing stakeholder relationships by serving as a strong business partner, helping to identify business critical needs and requirements while providing operational support that meets immediate and long-term demands.
+ Being a strategic representative of Abbott, across disciplines, industry and within the community.
+ Proactively identify areas of opportunity for business process improvement.
+ Providing insights to business units on how to optimize and refine Abbott and Supplier processes to improve effectiveness.
+ Influencing business units to align with strategic initiatives that enable effective operational efficiencies across the enterprise.
+ Effective operational leader capable of driving effectiveness for the category.
+ Ability to assess overall needs and react to anticipated and unanticipated disruptions.
+ Driving financial performance thorough supply base management, and category capability building.
+ Strong cost focus, delivering savings, managing negotiations and escalations, and driving value add / value engineering analysis.
+ Influencing and partnering with business leaders to manage and align business needs and requirements for the category.
+ Monitoring global market dynamics and anticipating business critical actions that may be required for business continuity.
+ Being a key relationship manager with category suppliers, driving risk management, and enhanced development of a flexible agile supply base.
**Qualifications and experience**
+ Degree in related discipline.
+ At least 5+ years of combined / related experience in a procurement / buying / category management role.
+ Industry experience in paper packaging / labels - preferable.
+ Experience in a manufacturing environment preferable.
+ Effective relationship building skills, capable of engaging stakeholders at all levels.
+ CIPS qualification (or equivalent) -preferable
**What's in it for you:**
+ Pension
+ Healthcare
+ Bonus
+ Life insurance
+ Disability insurance
+ Paid maternity leave
+ Parental leave
+ Adoptive leave
+ Flexible working
Connect with us at or , on LinkedIn at , on Facebook at and on Twitter @AbbottNews.
Abbott is an equal opportunities employer
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call or email
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Assistant Buyer
D24 Dublin, Leinster
Teamworx
Posted 554 days ago
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Position: Assistant BuyerLocation:Dublin 24Job: Permanent Teamworx are delighted to support a leading Irish Retail group with their search for an Assistant Buyer to join their commercial team located in their Head Quarters in South Dublin. What's in it for you: Hybrid Working (3 days in office, 2 from home)Annual BonusColleague DiscountCompany PensionHealthcareWellness InitiativesFlexi-Wage - Choose your own pay cycleIdeal Candidate:Strong attention to detail and accuracyOrganised with good planning skillsStrong numerical and analytical skillsProficient with Microsoft ExcelClear Communication with the ability to build strong relationshipsMain Responsibilities:Achieve annual budget by providing analytical, management and administrative support to the Category ManagerWork with the Category Manager in developing category plans and strategies to improve product sales and meet budgeted sales and margin targets Identifying, forecasting and taking advantage of market trends and opportunitiesAttending trade fairs to source new product / suppliers whilst monitoring future trends and innovationMeeting suppliers to review performance of current ranges Managing end of line ranges and aged stock through the businessReviewing quotations solicited or otherwise to ensure that our cost pricing remains competitiveAnalysing of sales and margins Working closely with our Marketing Department on promotions to include checking press adverts, leaflet drops and collating product information and imagesAttending scoping meetings fully prepared with product suggestions, quantities, margins and projected sales figures for the duration of the promotion Ensuring that we receive cost discounts for promotional activity and that all suppliers provide us with discounts for the duration of the Christmas / January SaleRespond to store feedback via the intranet and calls as appropriateLiaise with other departments across the business with the ability to build strong relationships when interacting with Marketing, Retail Operations, store colleagues and Suppliers If you are an experienced Buying Executive ready to take the next step in your career and would like to work with a company who are listed as one of Ireland's top retailers by great places to work, this is the company for you. For further information please call Elaine Coen Byrne on or apply today at Teamworx deal in all areas of Head Office, Retail & Hospitality Roles. For many more vacancies check out out website on teamworx.ie or drop us a line on to talk through your next career move.
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