Purchasing & Logistics Manager

hace 1 semana


Alajuela, Costa Rica Abbott Laboratories A tiempo completo

**About Abbott**

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.

**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. You will have access to:

- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Private medical insurance, cafeteria subsidy, stock program, and employee association, among others
- 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 diverse, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

**The Opportunity**

This position works out of our Alajuela, Coyol location in the Vascular division that provides innovative, mínimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

**The Purchasing & Logistics Manager **is Responsible for overseeing activities related to Purchasing and Logistics functions, ensuring product availability and cost efficiency management in the short, mid and long term.

Purchasing functions include direct and Indirect materials, services and contracts and supplier management. Logistics includes materials flow through Inbound/Outbound Freight, Sterilization operations, and Warehouse Management.

Provides clear strategy, structure and systems designed and/or improved to ensure connection between internal and external stakeholders. Provides direction and actively supports subordinates and maximizes results through an efficient use of budgeted resources.

**What You’ll Do**
- Provides leadership and direction in materials procurement from product concept to design and product cost standard, development, and design for AVCR Operation, through interaction with division and site management teams.
- Develop long-term cost improvement strategies and optimize the procurement and logistics costs of raw materials, supplies, spare parts, and MRO items.
- Coordinates purchasing benchmarks and develops complementary purchasing strategic plans to enhance Abbott’s purchasing practices, including resource requirements.
- Oversees long-term inbound and outbound activities to ensure shipment accuracy, completeness and condition. Also, reduce shipping expenses through cost-reduction initiatives.
- Ensures Logistics functions comply with local laws and Abbott’s compliance policies.
- Develop strategies to optimize warehouse operations and enhance efficiency.
- Support talent development at a site level for grades 17 and below.

**Shift: Admin (Monday - Friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm)**

**On-Site position**

**Required Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related STEM field
- 7 years of related experience
- Combined Purchasing, Planning, Inventory Control, Finance, Engineering, Operations, or Project Management experience.
- Supervisory experience.
- Master's Degree combined with experience
- Fully Bilingual (English and Spanish)

**Preferred Qualifications**
- APICS
- Business Accounting

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.



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