Finance Lead, Demand Planning

Role Summary

The Finance Lead, Demand Planning supports AbbVie’s US Demand Planning team by monitoring and maintaining the stability of AbbVie products in the U.S. supply chain, ensuring equitable product allocation to customers, and providing business insights on purchase trends. The role primarily supports 11 regional wholesalers and Demand Planning Systems, and assists the Associate Director with Balance Sheet and Audit & Compliance Support. The Finance Lead will develop strong knowledge of the business and communicate concisely while building cross-functional relationships with Trade, Customer Service, Transportation, Warehousing, Forecasting and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Regional Wholesale Support
  • Order Fulfillment: Review product orders vs. historical customer purchase trends, customer inventory DOH levels of the brand and internal availability of product. Must possess the ability to quickly reach out to stakeholders, build consensus and execute under tight timelines.
  • Administration of Distribution Service Agreements (DSA): Per contract terms, evaluate distributor performance in purchase stability behavior, inventory DOH levels, order fulfillment rates to downstream customers and timely submissions/accuracy of product movement data submitted via EDI; calculate quarterly performance fees to determine amount earned or owed by the customer, and complete payment authorization process to ensure payment is issued to or received from the customer.
  • Reporting and Analytics: Develop and maintain reporting tools used to monitor and track daily and weekly submissions of product movement data submitted via EDI by distributors for all US products. These reports provide insights of “to-market” sales performance and support availability across the distribution channel.
  • Allocation Reviews: Review the weekly/monthly Allocation (Purchase) Limits set at the specialty distributors for their customers to provide purchasing stability and avoid speculative purchases, resulting in a more stable supply/availability of AbbVie products.
• Systems Support

  Support the Associate Director in maintaining accuracy and alignment across standard financial systems (BIP, BPC, SAP) and data repositories (Cognos/Fusion, IntegriChain); troubleshoot data integrity issues and contribute to key system initiatives and enhancements.

• Balance Sheet Support

  Backup to the Associate Director; assist with Balance Sheet activities, including reconciliation of wholesale accrual balances to ensure liabilities are properly reflected, and forecasting future liabilities for planning cycles (Plan, LRP, LBEs and Key Plus Minus).

• Audit & Compliance Support

  Assist with internal and external audit and compliance requests across Demand Planning activities, ensuring adherence to established processes and maintaining thorough documentation for operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years overall business experience, preferably in a pharmaceutical environment, to include commercial finance, cost accounting, auditing, financial reporting or financial planning and analysis
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, SAP/BPC/BIP, Power BI, forecast modeling/scenario planning experience, data presentation skills and previous experience with PowerPoint is preferred
• Problem solving and integrity are key competencies of this position
• Working independently with the ability to shift priorities quickly
• Clear analytical thinking combined with experienced judgement
• Learning & understanding the distribution channel is critical in addition to working across various functional areas to develop action plans and execution
• Knowledge of financial problem solving & analysis and translation of data into actionable business recommendations are essential to success in this position

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or general business is required