Manager Forecasting and Brand Analytic - Columbus, OH

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, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow, to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life.

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the student debt program and education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Abbott Nutrition has a Manager, Forecasting and Brand Analytic opportunity open in Columbus, OH

What You’ll Work On

• Use analytic data techniques and statistical methods related to business analysis, data mining, design of experiments, and modeling, etc. to understand the business and recommend actions for improvements.
• Collaborate with Analytics, Marketing, Sales, Marketing Research, Finance, and Contract Operations to identify and evaluate opportunities to utilize data analytics to maximize marketing and sales success.
• Create and maintain forecasting models for Abbott and competitive brands for monthly and quarterly reporting to the cross-functional team and senior management.
• Analyze monthly and quarterly sales, explain variance to market, sales and share forecasts, and present performance update to leadership
• Develop and gain alignment on best visualization content that is in line with industry best practices and ease of user adoption to convey the story inside the data
• Build dashboards and reports for business stakeholders and to support analytic tools
• Complete ad-hoc requests to support tactical and strategic business needs
• Communicate analysis and findings clearly to senior leaders and non-technical audiences
• Manage monthly data streams and third-party relationships with vendors
• Periodically work evenings and weekends to complete time-sensitive assignments

Required Qualifications

• +4 years’ experience in data mining, forecasting, or other analytics
• Experience with data visualization tools such as PowerBI or Tableau
• Experience with statistical tools such as SAS and R
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, and the ability to communicate technical analysis and findings clearly to senior leaders and non-technical audiences
• Exceptional organization and time management skills including multi-tasking and the ability to adapt to changing priorities
• BS in Business Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• MS degree in Business Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or related field
• Experience using SAS Enterprise Guide, and SAS Forecast Studio
• Experience in time series and regression forecasting
• Experience in Healthcare analytics
• Experience with retail analytics, Nielsen, and IRI

* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $109,300.00 – $218,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.