Global Product Manager

About the position

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. The Global Product Manager will lead the organization in leveraging passion about healthcare and technology to impact patients' lives. This role will establish product strategy and new product development direction in the assigned Low Voltage (LV) Therapies portfolio for Cardiac Rhythm Management. The Global Product Manager will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that new products or evolutions of existing products provide value to customers and improve the standard of care.

Responsibilities

• Identify new products to be developed to meet new market demands or the creation of new markets.
• Provide leadership for product/concept justification during funding cycle and provides similar leadership to product development team.
• Identify new business opportunities through expansion of existing products into new markets or enhancements of existing products to maximize existing markets.
• Support the commercial organizations in achieving Plan/Update objectives.
• Provide direction and input to all in-house groups such as PMO, Operations, Finance, R&D, Quality, and Regulatory that affect the successful achievement of business objectives.
• Drive product strategy for the assigned LV products in collaboration with cross functional partners.
• Develop the LV Product Family Marketing Plan incorporating all aspects of the strategic direction.
• Lead financial and data analysis modeling for new product ideas including NPV and long-range forecasting.
• Support downstream marketing and commercial activities where needed.
• Create a clear line of communication between Global Marketing and all other areas that affect the product.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business, Life Science/Biomedical Engineering, or Software related field.
• 6 years of experience in marketing/product management, including experience with a global company.
• Healthcare industry and/or medical device experience preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree preferred.
• Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) experience is highly preferred.
• Sales experience is a plus.
• Experience prioritizing and managing project initiatives across multiple functions and/or business units.
• New product launch experience is preferred.

Benefits

• Career development with an international company.
• Free medical coverage for employees via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement and FreeU education benefit.
• Recognition as a great place to work in dozens of countries.