Senior Logistics Analyst

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Abbott is a global healthcare leader th helps people live more fully 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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Senior Logistics Analyst

Working Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work th mters, 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 internional 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 educion benefit - an affordable and convenient ph to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a gre 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 th 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

The position of Senior Logistics Analyst is part of our Toxicology Workplace Services business loced in our Kansas City, MO or Lake Forest IL office. The role of the Logistics Analyst is to ensure effective and cost-efficient transportion across all transportion modes with focus on identifying and implementing process improvements in service and cost. The Logistics Analyst will work closely with other members of ARDx’s global logistics and procurement team and the supply chain representives in the local opering entities.

Wh You’ll Work On

• Lead the end‑to‑end transportion stregy across all modes, ensuring reliable, cost‑effective, and compliant operions th support enterprise supply chain performance.

• Oversee carrier relionships and stregic sourcing, including service governance, contract optimizion, and performance management.

• Drive continuous improvement initiives by identifying inefficiencies, analyzing trends, and implementing solutions th enhance service quality and operional efficiency.

• Guide transportion analytics and reporting, developing dashboards, performance metrics, and executive summaries th inform decision‑making and highlight improvement opportunities.

• Partner with Finance and Accounting to align freight accruals, reporting, and cost‑to‑serve analysis, ensuring accure financial integrion and forecasting.

• Manage the freight audit and payment ecosystem, collaboring with audit partners and business teams to resolve discrepancies, improve compliance, and elimine process gaps.

• Monitor global market conditions, regulions, and logistics risks, transling insights into proactive stregies and operional adjustments.

• Resolve cross‑functional and customer issues by identifying root causes, implementing corrective actions, and communicing resolutions across internal and external partners.

• Support new product introductions and operional changes, ensuring transportion requirements, documention, and service standards are established and maintained.

• Lead internional and domestic transportion problem‑solving, including documention, compliance, carrier selection, and issue escalion.

• Govern forward, reverse, and intercompany logistics operions, evaluing impacts on network efficiency and driving alignment across functions.

• Evalue suppliers and carriers using cost, service, quality, and risk criteria to recommend optimal network or service configurions.

• Review contracts and service terms to identify opportunities to strengthen compliance and implement cost‑efficient, scalable improvements.

• Coordine cross‑functional alignment between Procurement, Logistics, Operions, Finance, and other stakeholders to ensure stregic and financial consistency.

• Maintain system access governance, ensuring proper configurion, controls, and account utilizion across transportion plforms.

• Lead communicion of carrier performance, spend trends, and project updes through regular business reviews and stakeholder presentions.

• Manage documention‑linked processes, including supplier approvals, carrier label ordering, and account assignments to ensure accuracy and operional continuity.

• Other duties as assigned by the business

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