Site Director, Portsmouth

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at 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.

Site Director, Portsmouth

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. You’ll 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.
• 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
This position works out of our Portsmouth, VA location in Abbott’s Toxicology business, part of our Rapid Diagnostics Division. The Site Director, Portsmouth is responsible for leading site operations, logistics, warehousing, and distribution activities for the Toxicology business.

Abbott’s lifechanging tests and diagnostic tools give you accurate, timely information to better manage your health. We’re 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 Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

What You’ll Work On

• Direct all supply and logistics policies, procedures, and activities to maximize the efficiency, reliability, timeliness, and cost effectiveness of the organization's US freight and distribution model.
• Oversee Portsmouth site operations, with responsibility for an extended team of 40-50 direct and indirect employees.
• Oversee the Portsmouth site budget and Toxicology business unit transportation spend.
• Set performance targets and track performance progress of all operations, supply, and logistics activities against these goals.
• Responsible for the planning and management of activities related to material logistics, aiming at meeting pre-determined quantities, quality and deadlines and the efficiency of operational flows within the Portsmouth site.
• Coordinates materials supply, storage, distribution, and order delivery, seeking the optimization of available resources to meet the needs of customer demand.
• Develops studies and determines strategies to enhance the efficiency of the warehouse internal processes and procedures.
• Regularly evaluate relationships and contracts with external suppliers so the organization has a reliable supply of goods and services that meet its standards of quality, timeliness, and cost.
• Responsible for operational improvements and technology enhancements to improve performance in the Portsmouth warehouse.
• Act as functional expert representing the BU on logistics matters to the wider Abbott and ARDx organization.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to deliver annual gross margin improvement resulting in favorable financial performance.
• Develop long-range plan for the Portsmouth site and US distribution model, inclusive of existing facilities and operations strategy to meet the Toxicology 5-year growth trajectory.

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain management or related discipline
• Direct experience in warehouse operations and transportation management, including warehouse management systems (WMS / ERP)
• 7+ years’ experience in relevant fields such as Logistics, Operations site management or supply chain

Preferred Qualifications
• A masters degree would be advantageous.
• Experience in Healthcare or appropriate regulated industry

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. Connect with us at abbott.com, on LinkedIn at and on Facebook at

The base pay for this position is $149,300.00 – $298,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.