Finance Director, Brand Management and Inventory Governance

About the role

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.

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.

Additional information

Represent Supply Chain Finance in senior-level and cross-functional discussions involving inventory strategy, planning, financial risk, governance, and transformation.

Qualifications & 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.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.