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Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.JOB DESCRIPTION:\nOur location in Lake Forest, Illinois currently has the opportunity for a Director, Procurement within the Core Diagnostics division.\nThis position will lead procurement strategy for a significant category portfolio within Core Diagnostics, representing approximately $250M-$300M in annual spend across critical purchased materials. The role owns supplier strategy, performance, contracts, cost productivity, capacity, risk and supply continuity while partnering closely with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality and other business functions.\nThe portfolio includes materials that are critical to product quality and can directly influence reagent functionality and test performance, requiring strong technical partnership and disciplined supplier qualification and change management.\nThis leader will manage a team of procurement professionals and managers while driving both near-term execution and longer-term category strategy, including supplier footprint changes, European expansion, capacity planning, risk mitigation and cross-functional sourcing initiatives.\nMain Responsibilities\nHighly experienced in the management of purchasing and procurement for various function’s needs.\nIn addition to the day-to-day managerial function, the role will incorporate strategic and policy development aspects that will have short, medium and long term consequences on the operation of the function.\nResponsible for purchasing of custom packaging components (primary, tertiary) including Abbott asset ownership within supplier operations.\nManages specific supplies, supervises employees in contacting suppliers requesting quotations, determines parts or product specifications, escalation/ de-escalation of orders and negotiates prices, delivery schedules, and other conditions as required.\nDrive Total Cost of Ownership reductions for spend through analytics and internal partnerships.\nDrive initiatives that span virtual teams across the world and cross cultures.\nInfluence and partner with business leaders\nClosely collaborate with adjacent business departments, and external partners to ensure adequate and timely delivery of agreed services, in line with agreed service levels.\nPartner and collaborate with key One Procurement staff of other Abbott divisions in order to support cross divisional business initiatives, and drive Procurement synergies and efficiencies.\nManage ongoing Supplier relationships.\nCommunicate vision and strategy for organization.\nFoster a collaborative environment among stakeholders.\nInitiate, build and maintain strong relationships across various functions, demonstrate the value-add of leveraging and build enthusiasm and support for adoption.\nEnsure optimal balance between value for money and cost savings is achieved, while ensuring quality and excellent customer service.\nTranslate market changes and dynamics for category into strategy across regions.\nContinually look for opportunities for cost reductions and cost avoidance.\nResponsible for all aspects of people leadership for the team, setting expectations,coaching,counseling,developing,evaluating,feedback,hiring,discipline and separation.\nEstablishes staffing/resources plans determining appropriate mix of sourcing opportunities.\nMininum Qualifications\nBA/BS required\n10+ years of progressive procurement/sourcing leadership experience, including ownership of significant direct-material or category spend in a complex manufacturing environment.\nCertified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM),Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM) or similar certification a plus. \nDemonstrated ability to translate complex supplier, market, financial and technical information into concise recommendations for senior leadership.\nSome functional experience in both procurement and category management desirable. Strong organizational skills, including program/project governance and increased levels of staff oversight.\nExcellent communication skills (written and verbal).\nStrong interdisciplinary, and excellent intercultural influence, and networking skills.\nBroad international experience and globally astute. Strong ability to develop and execute against actionable implementation plans.\nStrong ability to influence multiple stakeholders with superior negotiating skills.\nExperience leading multiple teams - both with direct staff and indirect project teams.\nPreferred Qualifications\nProject Management Professional (PMP) or similar certification a plus.\nMBA or relevant advanced degree\nExperience supporting global manufacturing expansion or supplier footprint changes across regions.\nExperience in diagnostics, medical devices, healthcare, life sciences, or another highly regulated industry.\nWHAT WE OFFER\nAt Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:\nTraining and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance \nFinancial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans \nHealth care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs\nPaid time off \n401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match\nThe stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities\nLearn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully: www.abbottbenefits.com\nFollow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.\nConnect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal\nThe base pay for this position is\n$149,300.00 - $298,700.00In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.\nJOB FAMILY:\nCategory ManagementDIVISION:\nCRLB Core LabLOCATION:\nUnited States > Lake Forest : CP01ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:\nWORK SHIFT:\nStandardTRAVEL:\nYes, 10 % of the TimeMEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:\nNot ApplicableSIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:\nNot ApplicableAbbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdfEEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf","description_format":"text","description_chars":6762,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Supply Chain","Medical Devices","Diagnostics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T23:25:26Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":15,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/abbott-laboratories-director-procurement","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/abbott-laboratories-director-procurement.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T07:30:05Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}