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's Diabetes Care team
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 pivotal role, you will shape and lead the organisation’s approach to supply risk management across both direct and indirect procurement. This role will drive the transformation of supply risk management practices, delivering consistent, trusted and strategically embedded capabilities that supports the rapid growth of the organisation.
What You’ll Be Doing:
1. Evolving existing supply risk management activities across the organisation, driving standardisation, modernisation and best practice.
2. Developing robust supply risk scoring and prioritisation tools and user-friendly interfaces that produce actionable, data driven insights.
3. Creating, delivering and maintaining an enterprise-wide governance structure, developing processes, guidance and training that embeds best practice and a recognisable ‘brand’ for supply risk management.
4. Engaging with cross-functional stakeholders, gathering insights, gaining buy-in and influencing adoption by championing the supply risk management culture within the organisation.
5. Owning the ongoing supply risk management cycle, collaborating with procurement teams and cross-functional stakeholders to identify, assess and prioritise supply risk.
6. Partnering closely with PMO, procurement functions and operational leadership to drive mitigation actions forward, ensuring momentum and accountability through structured reporting.
7. Providing clear, high-quality updates to executive leadership, highlighting project progress and risks.
8. Championing a culture of continuous improvement, refining processes, incorporating stakeholder feedback, and identifying opportunities to leverage technology to enhance efficiency and visibility.
9. Collaborating with other Abbott divisions to share insights, identify scalable solutions, and contribute to the evolution of supply risk management at group level.
Qualifications and experience
10. Ideally degree qualified in a business related topic / CIPS (or Equivalent)
11. Expertise in supply risk management – either through leading similar organisational initiatives, or from managing procurement categories with significant risk exposure.
12. Proven ability to lead change across complex environments, including influencing senior stakeholders, overcoming resistance, and building organisational alignment.
13. Experience in project or programme management, with the discipline to drive structured execution and track progress across multiple workstreams.
14. Strong analytical capability, with the ability to translate data into insight and drive action.
15. Exceptional communication skills, enabling you to build credibility, educate stakeholders, and establish supply risk management as a valued organisational capability.
16. Experience working in a manufacturing organisation, preferably within the pharmaceutical or medical device industries.
What’s in it for you:
17. Competitive compensation
18. Structured developmental support
19. Work with impact at the forefront of Diabetes Care technology