Finance Director, Brand Management and Inventory Governance
AbbVie
Summary
The Finance Director, Brand Management & Inventory Governance provides global Finance leadership across inventory planning and analytics, Brand and Supply Chain Finance partnership, inventory governance and controls, U.S. Distribution Finance, inventory risk management, and inventory-related process transformation. The role is responsible for strong financial stewardship of AbbVie's global inventory, ensuring inventory plans, reporting, valuation, reserves, controls, and financial processes appropriately reflect business and supply assumptions. The position partners extensively across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Commercial, Accounting, and HQ Finance to identify inventory risks and opportunities and provide senior management with clear, actionable insights supporting business and supply decisions.
Job description
Responsibilities
Global Inventory Planning & Business Partnership
- Lead global inventory financial planning across Plan, LBE and LRP, translating demand, supply and production assumptions into financial inventory projections.
- Partner with Operations and Supply Chain Brand Teams to challenge inventory assumptions and assess the financial implications of demand changes, supply strategies, product launches and other business decisions.
- Provide senior management with clear insights on inventory performance, outlook, key drivers, risks and opportunities.
Inventory Financial Stewardship & Risk
- Provide oversight of global inventory reporting, balance-sheet integrity, valuation and key inventory financial processes.
- Lead Finance oversight of inventory exposures, including reserves, distressed inventory, inventory at risk and unapproved/pre-launch inventory.
- Ensure significant inventory risks are identified, understood and appropriately reflected in financial plans and management reporting.
Inventory Governance & Controls
- Lead global inventory governance, including inventory policies and audit requirements.
- Drive consistent and sustainable inventory processes and provide Finance leadership on significant inventory accounting, governance and control matters.
U.S. Distribution, Costing & Inventory Valuation
- Provide Finance oversight of U.S. Distribution inventory activities, including financial reporting, inventory accounting, reserves, controls and financial exposure.
- Oversee key inventory valuation, product-costing and financial master-data considerations affecting inventory reporting and planning.
Transformation & Organizational Leadership
- Drive simplification, automation and modernization of inventory Finance processes, analytics and reporting, including Power BI and related Finance data solutions.
- Lead and develop the Inventory Finance organization across Inventory Analytics & Reporting, Inventory Governance & Controls, U.S. Distribution Finance and related activities.
- Represent Supply Chain Finance in senior-level and cross-functional discussions involving inventory strategy, planning, financial risk, governance, and transformation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field required
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive Finance leadership experience, including responsibility for supply chain, operations, manufacturing, commercial finance, FP&A, accounting, or related functions
- Broad Finance leadership experience, ideally across Supply Chain/Operations Finance, FP&A, Manufacturing Finance, Commercial/Brand Finance or Accounting
- Strong planning and forecasting experience, including Plan, LBE/Update, LRP and scenario analysis
- Strong understanding of inventory, balance-sheet management, financial controls and financial-risk management
- Ability to understand and challenge demand, supply and inventory assumptions and translate them into financial implications
- Strong cross-functional business partnering and ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Proven ability to communicate complex financial and operational topics clearly and concisely to senior management
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing Finance professionals and leaders
- Inventory forecasting, reserves/E&O, costing, SAP, Power BI and Finance-transformation experience preferred
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Long-term incentive programs
Company overview
AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and markets advanced therapies for some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. Founded in 2013 as a spin-off from Abbott Laboratories, AbbVie has established itself as a leader in immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, and virology. The company's flagship product, Humira (adalimumab), was one of the world's top-selling drugs for treating autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease. AbbVie maintains a robust pipeline of innovative medicines and has expanded its portfolio through strategic acquisitions, including Allergan in 2020. With research facilities across the United States and globally, AbbVie focuses on advancing science to improve patient outcomes while maintaining strong commercial operations worldwide. The company operates with a patient-centric approach and invests significantly in research and development to address unmet medical needs across multiple therapeutic areas.