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The company supports the Irish healthcare sector with a broad portfolio spanning diagnostics, diabetes care, medical devices and nutritional products. Today, Abbott employs more than 6,500 people across ten sites located in Dublin, Donegal, Clonmel, Cootehill, Galway, Kilkenny, Longford and Sligo.\nAbout Abbott\nAbbott 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, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries\nAbbott Ireland Vascular Division Clonmel\nAbbott Vascular is one of the world's leading vascular care businesses. Abbott Vascular is uniquely focused on advancing the treatment of vascular disease and improving patient care by combining the latest medical device innovations with world-class pharmaceuticals, investing in research and development and advancing medicine through training and education.\nOur broad line of vascular devices-which includes vessel closure, endovascular and coronary technologies-are used to treat vessel diseases of the heart, carotid arteries and peripheral blood vessels. These vessel diseases can lead to heart attack, stroke, critical limb ischemia and other serious vascular conditions.\n*Please note any offer of employment for this position is conditional upon the successful completion of a pre-employment medical examination, including drug and alcohol screening, conducted by a medical practitioner designated by the Company.\nPurpose Statement\nResponsible for obtaining services, materials, components, and equipment. Checks requisitions, obtains quotations, examines bids, and makes awards. Develops new supply sources where vendors and suppliers are inadequate. As required, monitors the cost, schedule, and scope of assigned subcontracts to assure best quality at best value. May evaluate vendor reliability. Coordinates activities involved with procuring goods and services (for example, raw materials, equipment, tools, parts, supplies and travel services) and ensures that items and services purchased are of high quality, on time and at the lowest total price.\n Key Responsibilities\nInteracts with suppliers and providers by phone or in person to negotiate activities involved with procuring materials and service. Requests bids from new suppliers by personal contact and/or phone to ensure the best price for materials.\nAssists internal and external customers by answering questions and assisting in solving their problems so they can perform within established guidelines (that is, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), travel and expense policy).\nImplements cost saving ideas to obtain maximum efficiencies of company funds.\nConducts supplier audits by visiting their facility, observing task performance and reviewing procedures to evaluate their capabilities.\nAudits various forecasts, patterns, and reports to ensure inventory demands are met and/or company service provided to employees meets business need.\nIdentifies invoice discrepancies (for example, duplicate billing, price differences and quantity errors) by researching process steps and/or investigating with appropriate departments to resolve the problem.\nInvestigates non-conforming materials by interfacing with production engineers, receiving personnel, and/or suppliers to identify the cause.\nMaintains manual and/or computerized records of activities (for example, items/services purchased, costs, delivery, travel patterns, product quality/performance and inventories) to provide accurate information source.\nProvides written data (for example, memos, letters and purchase orders) to departments and suppliers to convey company needs and requirements.\nProcesses purchase requests by accessing database and assigning a number to the order to provide an information source for tracking the order.\nWill be expected to lead significant cost saving initiatives as part of their role.\nEducation and Job Skills\n (Experience/Education) National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) level 7 qualification in a relevant discipline and 4+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.\n (Technical/Business Knowledge (Job Skills)) Working knowledge and application of business concepts, procedures and practices. Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.\n (Cognitive Skills) Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action. Has a general knowledge of technical/alternative and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.\n (Influence/Leadership) Cultivates a wide range of internal networks and begins to develop an external network of resources to facilitate completion of tasks. May demonstrate basic project management skills by acting as a project lead on small, well-defined projects. Provides guidance to less experienced staff. Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.\n (Planning/Organisation) Plans, organises, and prioritises own daily work routine to meet established schedule.\n (Decision Making/Impact) Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action. Failure to achieve results or erroneous decisions or recommendations may cause delays and may result in the allocation of additional resources.\n (Supervision Received) Works under general supervision. Receives limited supervision on standard issues, and detailed instructions on assignments. Works is reviewed for soundness of judgment, overall adequacy and accuracy.\n (Supervision Provided) May provide limited work direction and guidance to evaluate and/or skilled non-exempt levels of employees. 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