Business Alignment Manager

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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 - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s 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

This position is a remot opportunity in the Abbott Diabetes Care Division. We are helping people with Diabetes lead healthier, happier lives.   As a global leader in diabetes care, Abbott is constantly working to deliver the highest quality products and unwavering support to our customers.  Consistent and accurate glucose monitoring is the foundation of any diabetes management plan, so we’re committed to continuous improvement in the way patients and professionals measure, track and analyze glucose levels.   

As a US Commercial Sales Business Alignment Manager you will serve the HCP, Trade and DME teams coordinating and driving initiatives across the team, ensuring input from key stakeholders and reporting to the Divisional Vice President.  This opportunity can be onsite or remote requiring significant travel to Alameda, CA to coordinate with home office teams.

What You’ll Work On

• Provide recommendations for initiative strategy and execution
• Act as a member of HCP & Trade leadership team; organize team meetings, agenda, and follow up on agreed upon action items
• Sit in on meetings as needed when the VP is out or in key meetings when she/ he cannot be there live
• Oversee LBE (sales forecasting) process and modeling for HCP channel
• Interface with Sales Operations, Sales Training, Marketing, Market Access and other functions to coordinate the field sales team needs and feedback
• Coordinate and drive special projects moving them forward (NSM, Customer Business Development, Leadership Advisory Council, Culture transformation, etc.)
• Develop VP presentations, slide decks, weekly communications, and talking points for NSM, town halls, HCP team calls, etc by coordinating with various stakeholders
• Review business performance of regions in tandem with VP providing key feedback and identifying opportunities
• Help monitor and drive performance follow up for key market access opportunities
• Provide reporting of key initiatives to senior leadership and other key stakeholders in tandem with the VP
• Own schedule and project plan for US Comm leadership team, ensuring delivery of key initiatives, events, goals and milestones
• Manage other operational aspects of the team as appropriate
• Identify opportunities for simplification, activation, or acceleration
• Develop oneself through key business meetings, conferences, customer engagements as identified in conjunction with DVP.

Experience You’ll Bring

Required

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 6 years Working in Healthcare or Life Sciences

Preferred

• Experience in a sales leadership role
• Experience in marketing operations, program management or product management
• MBA with 1-3 years of related experience.  
• Strong presentation & communication skills, ability to present to senior executive stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills, sound understanding of financial business drivers, project management and executional skills
• Ability to plan and execute complex projects, and mobilize cross functional resources toward program goals
• Product management experience in medical products or services preferred.
• Advanced Degree (MBA)

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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. 

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Divisional Information 

Medical Devices 

General Medical Devices:  

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks. 

 

CRM 

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. 

 

Diabetes 

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology. 

 

Vascular 

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease. 

 

Neuromodulation 

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.  

 

Structural Heart 

Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist 

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease. 

 

EP 

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives. 

HF 

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.  

 

Diagnostics 

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. 

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key health and therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, cardiometabolic, informatics, and toxicology.  

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers. 

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.  

Our molecular division delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions.  We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions.  

 

Nutrition 

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives. 

     

The base pay for this position is

$125,300.00 – $250,700.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Sales Support & Administration

     

DIVISION:

ADC Diabetes Care

        

LOCATION:

United States of America : Remote

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 50 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

No

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

     

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

     

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