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Senior Logistics Planner - Columbus, OH
Abbott Laboratories · 🇺🇸 United States - Ohio - Columbus
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 73 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 28 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Abbott Laboratories
The US Department of Labor certified 73 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 28 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: Senior Logistics Planner About Abbott Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people's health. Our Nutrition business develops science-based products for people of all ages—from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions around the world rely on our leading brands, including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna®, to live their healthiest lives. 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 the FreeU education benefit—an affordable and convenient path to earning a bachelor’s degree. • Recognition globally as a great place to work, and for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. The Opportunity This position works out of our Columbus, OH in the Nutrition Division . The Senior Logistics Planner manages production planning for their assigned product(s). Position will be responsible for translating commercial demand and inventory strategies/targets into effective supply plans. Production Planner will manage production plans that span multiple plants. Incumbent will be required to coordinate with Demand Planning, Operations and other planners to resolve plant scheduling conflicts and capacity constraints. The Production Planner is primarily focused on the next 24 months horizon. Incumbent is expected to work independently, with minimal supervision. The Production Planner translates external environment conditions and demands from Demand Planners into comprehensive manufacturing plans under MRP philosophy. Simplistically: converting and communicating a changing condition to a planned environment. WHAT YOU’LL DO • Maintain internal and external customer service levels for all assigned products. • Manage plant throughput within customer service, capacity, efficiency, and inventory plan framework. • Coordinate with GIO Program and Project management groups, project activity and schedule of new products, new processes, etc. • Identify, resolve and communicate low/or excess obsolete stock position on all assigned SKUs. • Develop production plans for Plan, Update, and monthly LBE packages. • Maintain integrity of forecast passes, finished goods inventory planning, APO inventory planning, master scheduling and capacity requirements planning data for all ANPD and AI products sourced from the U.S. for all ssigned products. • Identify and direct the planning activities associated with the allocation of finished goods in current or projected low stock position for all assigned products. • Participate in decision-making meetings on plant manpower loading and/or premium labor (overtime-contract labor). • Manage and direct inventory investment activities for all assigned products. • Work directly with plants to perform Rough Cut Capacity Planning in support of 24-month planning horizon. • Present at monthly meetings with plant and division operations to rev