Associate Specialist Procurement Sustainability

$48,000 - $96,000/Yr

Abbott Laboratories - Green Oaks, IL

Full-time - Entry Level

Green Oaks, IL

10,001+ employees

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

The Associate Specialist Procurement Sustainability role at Abbott involves supporting the company's supply chain sustainability programming. This position is part of the Global Procurement Services team and focuses on driving sustainability due diligence and compliance activities across Abbott's operations. The role requires collaboration with various functions and divisions to meet Abbott's 2030 Supply Chain Sustainability Goals and manage supplier communications effectively.

Responsibilities

• Execute requirements to support the Supply Chain Sustainability program including managing internal and supplier program communications.
• Prioritize and triage internal and supplier inquiries, and manage due diligence campaign communications including audit communications and logistics.
• Maintain performance metrics, tools, reporting processes, systems and communications for supply chain sustainability activities.
• Provide project, data, and program management for implementation of enterprise-level programs.
• Develop supply chain sustainability content, training and communications for a variety of internal and external Abbott stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain process documentation for due diligence processes including screening, assessment, remediation, audit and reporting.
• Partner with Division and Category Procurement, Sustainability Liaisons, and other Abbott cross-functional team members to drive supply chain sustainability considerations into category management strategies.
• Analyze complex problems, deliver solutions and implement process improvements for sustainability issue management across the program.
• Collaborate with business team members to identify and implement strategies, programs and initiatives that will address Abbott-supplier shared sustainability impacts.
• Represent Abbott's expectations, values and priorities to internally and with Abbott's suppliers.
• Execute other assigned tasks to support entire SCS team effectiveness as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Science, Engineering, Business, Finance, or equivalent.
• Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word and Power Point (or Microsoft Office).
• Flexible to work within a matrix organization; at ease within a fast paced, demanding, goal driven environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Subject matter expertise in sustainability and ESG topics preferred.
• Strong communications skills (power point presentations, mass communications campaigns, presentations, analysis summaries, etc.).
• High degree of customer satisfaction/responsiveness in a variety of communications outlets (email, presentations, business meetings, etc.).
• Experience working collaboratively and building strong partnerships across teams.
• Ability to make independent decisions and demonstrate a high level of initiative and proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Interpersonal skills to negotiate and reconcile differences, while optimizing overall organizational goals.
• Good interdisciplinary, intercultural, influence, and networking skills.
• Professional and well organized.

Benefits

• Career development with an international company.
• Free medical coverage in the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• Excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement and FreeU education benefit for obtaining a bachelor's degree.
• Recognition as a great place to work in various countries and for diversity.