Project Manager, (Sustaining Go To Market)

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 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 works out of our Lake Forest, IL location in Abbott Rapid Diagnostics. This role is on-site daily and not remote.

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.

As the GTM Project Manager, your primary role will be driving launch excellence of On-Market product changes with cross-functional teams across the Infectious Disease portfolio globally.  It’ll be critical to understand the markets we are aiming to serve, partner with both regional and global teams, and build relationships to bridge knowledge gaps and influence change without authority.  Doing so will result in helping to serve a very broad community of patients globally and serve a greater healthcare need. 

What You’ll Work On 

• Partner with regional and global cross-functional teams to drive launch excellence of products, globally

• Create templates and tools, and conduct training on the Go To Market process, deliverables, and expectations

• Build relationships as a liaison to both regional and global stakeholders to understand GTM plans, identify gaps, brainstorm solutions, and ensure accountability of teams/deliverables

• Influence change to align to a global structure, creating excitement and campaigns to help drive adoption

• Work with launch teams to establish KPIs to quantify success and measure progress regularly

• Monthly reporting of launch readiness or post-launch execution against KPIs

• Build excitement around successful launches and encourage knowledge sharing across teams ​

• You must have excellent communication/presentation skills and be comfortable with presenting to leadership in order to perform well in this role.

Required Qualifications 

• Associate degree in Marketing, Business, Biological Science or related field required.

• 5 or more years of related work experience, with at least 4 years of commercial experience is preferred.

• Travel 30% ​including globally if required.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Bachelor and MBA Degrees are strongly preferred and will help you stand out as a candidate.

• Commercial financial acumen (demand forecasting, building sales funnels, monitoring lead/lag measures, etc).

• Global Product Launch experience

• 4+ years of Marketing experience

• 2+ years of Professional and Consumer Healthcare product exp. preferred

• 2+ years of Smartsheet, MS Project, and Power BI experience preferred

• PowerBI or related Master Data capability ​

• Experience working in a regulated environment, ideally healthcare.

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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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