About the Role
The Associate Downstream Product Manager – Cardiac Digital Health & Connectivity supports the commercial execution, field enablement, and market adoption of Abbott’s cardiac rhythm portfolio. This role helps translate clinical evidence, customer insights, and competitive information into practical tools and programs that support sales effectiveness and customer adoption.
Responsibilities
- Support downstream launch activities for new Connectivity products, feature releases, services, and enhancements.
- Assist in the development and execution of post-launch adoption initiatives, including messaging updates, targeting support, and competitive response materials.
- Help track launch KPIs (e.g., adoption, utilization, product mix) and flag trends or gaps for discussion with senior team members.
- Partner with the CRM sales organization to support development of sales tools, presentations, objection-handling guides, and training content.
- Assist in maintaining sales playbooks and customer-facing materials to ensure consistency and clinical credibility.
- Participate in field rides, customer meetings, and account visits to gather insights and better understand real-world adoption challenges.
- Support national and regional sales meetings, trainings, and customer education programs.
- Utilize CRM platforms (Salesforce or equivalent) and dashboards to support tracking of sales performance and customer engagement.
- Assist with basic data analysis related to KPIs, market trends, and program effectiveness.
- Partner with analytics and sales operations teams to support reporting and data accuracy.
- Monitor competitor activity, market trends, and customer feedback to support positioning and messaging updates.
- Help translate clinical and technical information into clear, customer-relevant content under guidance from senior marketers.
- Compile and summarize field feedback to support continuous improvement of downstream strategies.
- Work cross-functionally with Global Product Marketing, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Training, Remote Care Technical Services and Operations to support coordinated commercial execution.
- Serve as a supporting interface between the field and internal teams, ensuring feedback is documented and shared in a timely manner.
- Contribute to cross-functional meetings and working sessions focused on launch readiness and execution planning.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Minimum 2-4 years of related work experience with a strong understanding of specified functional area.
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and support field-facing initiatives.
- Strong communication and organizational skills.
- Ability to synthesize information and translate it into clear, practical content.
- Comfort working with data, dashboards, and basic analytics.
- Curiosity, learning mindset, and willingness to engage directly with sales teams and customers.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, matrixed, and regulated environment.
- Willingness to travel periodically to support field activities and meetings.
Skills
- Product Launch
- Commercial Execution
- Sales Enablement
- Field Partnership
- CRM platforms (Salesforce or equivalent)
- Dashboards
- Basic data analysis
- Market trends
- Program effectiveness
- Reporting
- Data accuracy
- Competitor activity monitoring
- Customer feedback analysis
- Positioning
- Messaging updates
- Clinical information translation
- Technical information translation
- Customer-relevant content creation
- Field feedback summarization
- Downstream strategies
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Commercial execution coordination
- Field interface
- Internal teams interface
- Feedback documentation
- Feedback sharing
- Launch readiness planning
- Execution planning
Location
- Austin, TX
- Sylmar, CA
Work Type
- Fully onsite
- Standard Work Shift
- Travel Yes, 10 % of the Time
Experience Level
- Associate
- 2-4 years of related work experience
- Progressive experience in marketing, sales support, or commercial roles
- Exposure to product launches, sales enablement, or commercial programs preferred
- Cardiovascular, electrophysiology, or diagnostics experience a plus
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Masters Degree/MBA preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $78,000.00 – $156,000.00
Benefits
- 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.
- Health and wellness benefits
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats.
Equal Opportunity
- Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
- Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
