Abbott

Senior Logistics Analyst

Abbott

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Kansas City • Illinois • Kansas • United States

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Salary

💰 $78,000 - $156,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Lead the end‑to‑end transportation strategy across all modes, ensuring reliable, cost‑effective, and compliant operations that support enterprise supply chain performance.
  • Oversee carrier relationships and strategic sourcing, including service governance, contract optimization, and performance management.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying inefficiencies, analyzing trends, and implementing solutions that enhance service quality and operational efficiency.
  • Guide transportation analytics and reporting, developing dashboards, performance metrics, and executive summaries that inform decision‑making and highlight improvement opportunities.
  • Partner with Finance and Accounting to align freight accruals, reporting, and cost‑to‑serve analysis, ensuring accurate financial integration and forecasting.
  • Manage the freight audit and payment ecosystem, collaborating with audit partners and business teams to resolve discrepancies, improve compliance, and eliminate process gaps.
  • Monitor global market conditions, regulations, and logistics risks, translating insights into proactive strategies and operational adjustments.
  • Resolve cross‑functional and customer issues by identifying root causes, implementing corrective actions, and communicating resolutions across internal and external partners.
  • Support new product introductions and operational changes, ensuring transportation requirements, documentation, and service standards are established and maintained.
  • Lead international and domestic transportation problem‑solving, including documentation, compliance, carrier selection, and issue escalation.
  • Govern forward, reverse, and intercompany logistics operations, evaluating impacts on network efficiency and driving alignment across functions.
  • Evaluate suppliers and carriers using cost, service, quality, and risk criteria to recommend optimal network or service configurations.
  • Review contracts and service terms to identify opportunities to strengthen compliance and implement cost‑efficient, scalable improvements.
  • Coordinate cross‑functional alignment between Procurement, Logistics, Operations, Finance, and other stakeholders to ensure strategic and financial consistency.
  • Maintain system access governance, ensuring proper configuration, controls, and account utilization across transportation platforms.
  • Lead communication of carrier performance, spend trends, and project updates through regular business reviews and stakeholder presentations.
  • Manage documentation‑linked processes, including supplier approvals, carrier label ordering, and account assignments to ensure accuracy and operational continuity.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree OR an equivalent combination of education and work experience
  • 5 or more years of relevant professional experience
  • Must be proficient in MS Office including Excel, Access, Word and Outlook
  • Must be able to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
  • Must be comfortable evaluating large data sets and analyzing the data to identify improvement opportunities.
Benefits
  • Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
  • Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
  • An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
  • Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
transportation strategycarrier relationshipsstrategic sourcingperformance managementtransportation analyticsfreight auditcost-to-serve analysislogistics risk managementdata analysiscompliance
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingcross-functional collaborationcontinuous improvementanalytical thinkingstrategic thinkingstakeholder managementdecision-makingorganizational skills