Finance Director, Brand Management and Inventory Governance

About Abb Vie

Abb Vie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on Linked In, Facebook, Instagram, Xand You Tube.

The Finance Director, Brand Management & Inventory Governance provides global Finance leadership across inventory planning and analytics, Brand and Supply Chain Finance partnership, inventory governance and controls, U.S. Distribution Finance, inventory risk management, and inventory-related process transformation.

The role is responsible for strong financial stewardship of Abb Vie's global inventory, ensuring inventory plans, reporting, valuation, reserves, controls, and financial processes appropriately reflect business and supply assumptions. The position partners extensively across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Commercial, Accounting, and HQ Finance to identify inventory risks and opportunities and provide senior management with clear, actionable insights supporting business and supply decisions.

• Lead global inventory financial planning across Plan, LBE and LRP, translating demand, supply and production assumptions into financial inventory projections.
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain Brand Teams to challenge inventory assumptions and assess the financial implications of demand changes, supply strategies, product launches and other business decisions.
• Provide senior management with clear insights on inventory performance, outlook, key drivers, risks and opportunities.

• Provide oversight of global inventory reporting, balance-sheet integrity, valuation and key inventory financial processes.
• Lead Finance oversight of inventory exposures, including reserves, distressed inventory, inventory at risk and unapproved/pre-launch inventory.
• Ensure significant inventory risks are identified, understood and appropriately reflected in financial plans and management reporting.

• Lead global inventory governance, including inventory policies and audit requirements.
• Drive consistent and sustainable inventory processes and provide Finance leadership on significant inventory accounting, governance and control matters.

• Provide Finance oversight of U.S. Distribution inventory activities, including financial reporting, inventory accounting, reserves, controls and financial exposure.
• Oversee key inventory valuation, product-costing and financial master-data considerations affecting inventory reporting and planning.

• Drive simplification, automation and modernization of inventory Finance processes, analytics and reporting, including Power BI and related Finance data solutions.
• Lead and develop the Inventory Finance organization across Inventory Analytics & Reporting, Inventory Governance & Controls, U.S. Distribution Finance and related activities.

Represent Supply Chain Finance in senior-level and cross-functional discussions involving inventory strategy, planning, financial risk, governance, and transformation.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field required;
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive Finance leadership experience, including responsibility for supply chain, operations, manufacturing, commercial finance, FP&A,…