Global Product Manager, CardioMetabolic (Lake Forest IL)

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

ABOUT ABBOTT RAPID DIAGNOSTICS:

The key to successful treatment and full recovery is often fast, accurate diagnosis. Abbott's life-changing tests and rapid diagnostic tools provide insights that enable smarter, faster decisions and transform the way the world is managing health. Our pioneering technology spans the world of healthcare operations - with medical diagnostic instruments, tests, automation and informatics solutions for hospitals, reference labs, blood centers, emergency departments, physician offices and clinics.

Our Lake Forest, IL location currently has an opportunity for a Global Product Manager, Cardiometabolic. This role supports the development and management of a successful, sustainable franchise, ensuring delivery of exceptional customer value and business targets. This individual acts as a subject matter expert on our products/solutions and manages the product area day-to-day in line with the global marketing plan and in collaboration with area teams. They proactively identify new opportunities to grow and differentiate the franchise and collaborates across the organization to effectively develop and launch new products and solutions on-time and on-budget.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Support the global product strategy, product development and commercialization of products in the Cardiometabolic portfolio.
• Collaborate on the execution of global marketing initiatives to grow our business including global product and portfolio strategy and roadmap; championing product development; formulating launch, marketing and sales strategies; and providing on-market support.
• Serve as product/market expert related to product positioning, claims, competitive information, product performance, etc.
• Provide direction on user needs and product requirements based on insights generated from market research, customer input, internal stakeholder feedback, etc.
• Participate in strategic planning initiatives such as portfolio management process and long-range strategic planning.
• Provide leadership and direction to R&D and support organizations throughout product development cycle (e.g., trade-off analysis across customer, financial and timeline impacts).
• Develop sales tools (literature, brochures, website, and all media), training materials, and field sales and customer communications to support sales and the customer and address any product line issues.
• Ensure launch and post-launch success by providing support to global commercial organizations and on-market teams.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree with 2-4+ years of related work experience with an understanding of product management or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:

• Product marketing/brand marketing experience in healthcare or medical products and prior experience working within the diagnostics field is strongly preferred.
• Experience in product management/development and launch, including go-to-market planning.
• Experience in developing compelling content for marketing materials.
• Strong presentation & communication skills, strategic planning, critical thinking, decision-making capabilities and analysis of market conditions.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with ability to influence others without authority.
• Demonstrated collaboration skills with ability to build alignment across variety of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated learning agility with ability to quickly master new topic areas.

The salary for this role is between:

N/A

JOB FAMILY:

Product Management

DIVISION:

CMI ARDx Cardiometabolic and Informatics

LOCATION:

United States > Lake Forest : J55

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Yes, 10 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

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)

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