Logistics Specialist

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

• 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 a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelors degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity working mothers female executives and scientists.

The Opportunity

Were empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day more than 10 million tests are run on Abbotts diagnostics instruments providing lab results for millions of people.

Our Diagnostics business currently has an opportunity for a Logistics Specialist in our North Chicago IL location. This individual will take responsibility and perform the day-to-day operational functions of international exporting for the Abbott Diagnostics division. The Specialist will require significant interaction with logistics distribution operations planning and Customs & Trade Compliance. They will be responsible for the execution on an operational level for appointed freight forwarders for international air and ocean; international small package; same day expedited moves such as next flight out and hot shot truck; LTL; and truckload shipments on an outbound basis.

What Youll Work On

• Create the export documentation in accordance with US Customs and Corporate Customs & Trade Compliance ( CCTC ) regulations for ADD ( Abbott Diagnostic Division) shipments moving out from Lake County Distribution Center and variety of third-party locations (3PL) around the country including a K&N warehouse in North Carolina Streck in Nebraska and ADD facilities in Dallas Texas and Santa Clara California ensuring compliance with all relevant customs regulations and trade laws and regulations including 19CFR 15CFR USDA and other US regulatory agency requirements.
• Work with various freight forwarders to obtain booking details and House Airway Bills/Seaway Bills ensure that these documents are correct and create folders containing the documentation trail for each shipment.
• Responsible for following required regulations and proper AES filings on applicable shipments for different mode of transportation: Air Truck Ocean (both as full container loads FCL and less-than container loads LCL).
• Responsible for partial or full manual input of each data element for manual shipments.
• Manage shipment activity assignments by countries; complexity; routes; freight forwarder capacity and customer expectations.
• Responsible for ensuring proper Dangerous Goods paperwork accompanies all applicable shipments.
• Accountable to ensure compliant exportation of products from all US sites. Responsible to act when lack of compliance occurs with U.S. policy - must escalate and report to export customs site management.
• Generate the proper and required international paperwork necessary for outbound shipment moves and exception management on delayed shipments as well as responsible for pre-alerting on all applicable shipments. On international shipments the person is responsible from the order dropping till the order delivers to ADDs customers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in customs compliance distribution shipping logistics planning operations and quality.
• Actively share customs and logistics expertise and data with cross-functional teams; guiding them through decisions that potentially could be impacted by customs regulations.
• Recommend projects which will positively impact divisional and corporate results.
• Responsible for Export Record Keeping complying with Abbott and US governmental organizations policies.
• Ensure all documentation and training necessary to execute the project plan are complete and meet divisional and corporate quality standards.
• Responsible for following up on international customer complaints on shipments that may be over-shipped mis-shipped or short-shipped.
• Must be on call to handle emergency shipments after hours and on weekends.
• Assist in Due Diligence activities to provide logistics and customs expertise in the decision-making process.
• There are a variety of information systems for managing the freight distribution and customer service portion of the business that do not have common platforms language or reporting capabilities. The Logistics Customs Specialist will support many ADD departments so they must have strong communication skills results driven be self-motivated with a desire to learn and improve the department and their own skill set.
• Needs to maintain constant communication/interaction with internal and external stakeholders to ensure quick responses and satisfactory outcomes.
• Support sustaining a lean culture of continuous process improvement.

Education and Experience

Required

• Bachelors degree required OR an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Minimum 4 years of related work experience preferably in logistics or supply chain management.
• Must have dangerous goods certification or be willing to become hazmat certified for the Lake County facility.

Preferred

• 1-3 years experience in Logistics Supply Chain Customer Service or Customs
• Sound problem solving and analytical skills.
• Acute attention to detail
• Effective communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills are critical.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities simultaneously and manage time appropriately.
• Be self-directed to achieve the departmental objectives. Minimal supervision should be required.
• Intermediate Microsoft Office Skills.
• Power BI experience is a plus.

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