Senior Supply Chain Analyst

Title: Senior Supply Chain Analyst

Location: Lake Mary, FL

Duration: 12 Months

100% Onsite

Key Responsibilities

Gross Margin Improvement (GMI) Leadership

• Support and coordinate cross-functional GMI initiatives.
• Build business cases and savings opportunities that improve gross margin.
• Identify cost reduction opportunities across:
• Raw materials
• Purchased products
• Contracted services
• Freight and logistics
• Inventory carrying costs
• SKU portfolio complexity
• Develop and maintain GMI dashboards and savings tracking reports.
• Present recommendations and project updates to senior leadership.

Strategic Sourcing & Supplier Management

• Lead supplier negotiations for pricing, contracts, rebates, and service agreements.
• Analyze vendor spend and identify opportunities for strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Conduct supplier RFQs, RFPs, and bid evaluations.
• Develop supplier scorecards and performance metrics.
• Manage supplier relationships to ensure continuity of supply and risk mitigation.
• Identify alternative suppliers and dual-source opportunities.
• Negotiate:
• Product costs
• Annual pricing agreements
• Payment terms
• Freight terms
• Volume discounts
• Service level agreements (SLAs)

Contract Negotiation & Procurement Optimization

• Review and negotiate supplier contracts.
• Work with Legal and Finance to optimize commercial terms.
• Ensure contract compliance and monitor supplier obligations.
• Track contract renewals and opportunities for renegotiation.
• Implement procurement best practices that improve purchasing leverage and reduce total cost of ownership.

Demand Planning & Forecast Analytics

• Analyze historical demand patterns and business trends.
• Develop statistical forecasts and planning models.
• Partner with Sales and Operations to improve forecast accuracy.
• Identify demand variability, forecast bias, and inventory risks.
• Support S&OP and business planning processes.
• Recommend inventory strategies that balance service levels and working capital.

Inventory & SKU Optimization

• Conduct SKU profitability and complexity analysis.
• Identify opportunities for SKU rationalization and standardization.
• Analyze inventory carrying costs and excess inventory risks.
• Support initiatives to reduce obsolete and slow-moving inventory.
• Develop recommendations to improve inventory turns and working capital performance.

Logistics & Transportation Analysis

• Analyze freight spend and transportation patterns.
• Identify opportunities to reduce shipping costs.
• Evaluate carrier performance and service levels.
• Support initiatives related to:
• Freight optimization
• Distribution network improvements
• Shipment consolidation
• Mode conversion strategies
• Calculate financial impact of logistics improvement initiatives.

Financial & Business Analysis

• Build cost models and profitability analyses.
• Quantify savings and track realized benefits.
• Develop executive-level reporting and presentations.
• Support annual budgeting and cost planning activities.
• Collaborate with Finance to validate savings achievements.

Technical Skills

• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Power Query
• Pivot Tables
• Scenario Modeling
• Financial Analysis
• Power BI
• Demand Planning Tools
• Contract Management Systems
• SQL experience preferred

Consultants Eligible Benefits Upon Waiting Period:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account (for High-Deductible Health Plans)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Limited Purpose, Dependent Care, Commuter Parking and Commuter Transit)
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability (coverage varies by state)
• Long Term Disability
• Critical Illness, Hospital coverage, Accident Insurance
• MetLife Legal, MetLife ID Fraud, and MetLife Pet Insurance
• 401(k)

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 and branded generic medicines.

Working together, Abbott and Talent Solutions partner to deliver top talent for contingent roles at Abbott, building better and healthier lives. Abbott believes all employees are essential to creating life-changing breakthroughs, performing key duties to create life-changing breakthroughs.