Abbott
EMEA Area Demand & Supply Manager
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JOB DESCRIPTION: 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.
The Opportunity
We are seeking an ambitious and influential Area Demand & Supply Manager to lead end-to-end planning excellence by balancing customer demand, inventory optimization, and supply availability across the EMEA region; within Abbott Nutrition International.
Reporting into the Director, Supply Chain and Logistics, this represents an exciting step in broadening strategic leadership capabilities within the supply chain function responsible for ensuring the availability of critical nutrition products across diverse markets while driving Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes, continuous improvement initiatives, and building high-performing teams.
You'll play a pivotal role in shaping business decisions through data-driven insights, leading regional planning teams, and partnering with senior stakeholders across Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, and Global Operations. This is a great opportunity for an experienced Demand & Supply Manager professional who enjoys solving complex challenges, leading transformation, and influencing outcomes on a regional scale.
What You’ll Do
As the EMEA planning lead, you'll be responsible for ensuring robust demand and supply plans that support business growth while delivering outstanding service to customers and patients. We're looking for a strategic supply chain leader who combines strong planning expertise with exceptional analytical capability with experience at both country and Region level.
Responsibilities
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Strategic Demand & Supply Leadership
Lead the end-to-end demand planning process across EMEA for infant, paediatric, and adult nutrition portfolios.
Develop accurate and actionable forecasts using market intelligence, epidemiological trends, demographic data, commercial activity, and customer insights.
Drive improvements in forecast accuracy and forecast bias to support business performance.
Partner with Supply Chain and Logistics teams to ensure uninterrupted product availability across the region.
Lead supply allocation decisions during periods of constraint, balancing business priorities, contractual commitments, and patient needs.
Manage inventory health, minimizing excess stock, expiry risks, and obsolescence while driving continuous improvements.
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Own the Regional IBP & S&OP Process
Lead the EMEA Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes.
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Ensure strong alignment across demand, supply, financial commitments, and long-term business plans.
Identify supply risks, capacity constraints, and future opportunities, developing mitigation strategies and scenario plans.
Deliver meaningful insights and recommendations to senior leadership teams to support informed decision-making.
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Inspire and Develop High-Performing Teams
Lead, coach, and develop a team of Demand and Supply Planning professionals across the EMEA region.
Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Build organizational capability in forecasting, analytics, planning systems, and business storytelling.
Lead change management initiatives, supporting the successful adoption of new tools, technologies, and planning processes.
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Drive Analytics & Business Performance
Leverage data and advanced analytics to improve planning decisions and business outcomes.
Monitor and drive key performance indicators including forecast Accuracy & Bias, Inventory Days on Hand, Expiry & Obsolescence, and Offtake Performance.
Conduct root cause analysis and implement sustainable corrective actions.
Develop actionable insights through dashboards and analytical tools that influence strategic decisions.
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Champion Transformation & Digitalization
Drive planning excellence and process standardization across multiple countries and markets.
Support the adoption of advanced planning technologies including SAP IBP and analytics platforms.
Contribute to regional and global supply chain transformation initiatives.
Experience & Qualifications
- Degree qualified or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
- Significant experience in Demand Planning, Supply Planning, IBP, S&OP, or Supply Chain leadership roles.
- Proven success managing and developing teams within a complex matrix organization.
- Experience operating across multiple countries, regions, or international markets.
- Expertise in SAP IBP, APO, or equivalent planning platforms.
- Experience within a regulated industry such as Nutrition, Healthcare, Medical Devices, Life Sciences, or Pharmaceuticals is advantageous.
- Strong leadership and team development skills.
- Advanced forecasting and analytical capability.
- Passion for leveraging data to drive business decisions.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Commercial and financial acumen.
- Ability to navigate complexity across diverse markets and cultures.
- Change leadership mindset with a track record of driving transformation.
- Naturally curious, proactive, and motivated to continuously improve processes and performance.
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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.
- 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.
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 N/A In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY: Supply Chain
DIVISION: ANI International Nutrition
LOCATION: United Kingdom > Maidenhead : Abbott House
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT: Standard
TRAVEL: No
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Not Applicable
Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.
The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well-being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life’s greatest health challenges. We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings.
An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
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