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About the Role
Abbott seeks a Global Strategy and Insights Director for its Cardiac Rhythm Management Global Marketing team. This leader will establish and lead a global strategy and insights function, shaping strategic direction, identifying growth opportunities, and driving short-term and long-term goals for a billion-dollar, global business. The role involves bringing clarity to global markets, market share, and competitive development, leading market research, and gathering third-party data to understand market trends. The Director will also contribute to strategy development for growth, explore market growth options, and execute key insights.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Global Strategy and Insights organization, setting goals, defining priorities, hiring talent, championing customer-centric culture, and managing budget and operations.
- Provide strategic leadership, planning, and direction to drive growth and profitability through annual strategic planning and ongoing strategic initiatives.
- Guide franchise and functional plans, ensuring alignment with BU strategy.
- Identify market opportunities to differentiate the business and enable profitable growth.
- Drive portfolio optimization of both new and existing products.
- Build a consistent fact base of market size, share, and growth across franchises and regions.
- Drive cross-functional alignment and form the “single source of truth” for OEM, LBE, NPI, and business assessments.
- Assess customer needs, conduct competitive analysis, and identify enabling products, technologies, and business levers.
- Capture customer insights and articulate market landscape to refine value proposition, pricing elasticity, and identify drivers and barriers for new product adoption.
- Manage complex, large, or difficult data analytics and research projects.
- Select and manage ongoing relationships with external research agencies and consultants.
- Develop and manage contracting for data and market research.
- Strengthen competitive positioning by capturing industry trends, stakeholder dynamics, and competitor activities.
- Conduct scenario planning (war gaming), weekly market surveillance, and industry conference intelligence.
- Perform deep dives on competitors, products, and critical events.
- Partner cross-functionally with key stakeholders in Finance, Marketing, and Commercial Excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, business administration or related field.
- Minimum of 12 years’ work experience.
- Five (5) or more years of forecasting, planning, project management and team management experience.
- Demonstrated market intelligence knowledge, skills and techniques and sales forecasting experience.
- Experience with advanced forecasting techniques, such as regression analysis, cluster analysis, conjoint analysis and discrete choice modeling.
- Strong knowledge and capability in mathematics, statistics and computer skills related to modeling.
- Experience interfacing effectively both domestically and internationally.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Experience interacting effectively with senior management and partnering with others in a matrixed environment.
- Master's degree (± 18 years) MBA preferred.
- Management consulting or healthcare strategy experience preferred.
- Global experience in a finance or planning capacity preferred.
Skills
- Forecasting
- Planning
- Project Management
- Team Management
- Market Intelligence
- Sales Forecasting
- Advanced Forecasting Techniques (regression analysis, cluster analysis, conjoint analysis, discrete choice modeling)
- Mathematics
- Statistics
- Computer Skills related to modeling
- Interfacing domestically and internationally
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Oral communication skills
- Written communication skills
- Interacting with senior management
- Partnering in a matrixed environment
- Market Research
- Competitive Analysis
- Data Analytics
Location
- Austin, TX
- Sylmar, CA
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 12+ years of work experience
- 5+ years of forecasting, planning, project management and team management experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business administration or related field
- MBA preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $149,300.00 – $298,700.00
Benefits
- Training and career development
- Onboarding programs for new employees
- Tuition assistance
- Competitive compensation
- Incentives
- Retirement plans
- Health care and well-being programs
- Medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs
- Paid time off
- 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
- The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities.
Equal Opportunity
- Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.