Product Manager/Senior Product 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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the [Register to View] student debt program and [Register to View] 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Our location in Alameda, CA has a future opportunity for a Product Manager/Senior Product Manager on the U.S. Commercial and/or Global Marketing team for our Diabetes Care Division. In this is role you will be responsible for contributing to the on-going success and growth of the revolutionary CGM sensor, Freestyle Libre. Abbott Diabetes Care is 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.

*This listing is for an upcoming onsite role

Can be filled as either Product Manager or Senior Product Manager depending on experience

What You’ll Work On

Will take a significant role in the development and execution of best-in-class marketing and tactical plans utilizing deep marketing insights to drive innovative, breakthrough marketing campaigns in the glucose monitoring market.

Works collaboratively as part of the US Commercial team to achieve US product line sales and margin by supporting marketing initiatives and driving execution of sales and marketing plans, tracking actuals vs. target and monitoring the progress of these marketing initiatives

• Assist in planning/plans and executes marketing programs and campaigns. Develops, manages and implements sales promotional pieces to support business strategy. Creates sales tools for effective customer communications (literature, brochures, presentations, messaging, detail aids and other media).

• Guide messaging, branding, and communications efforts and supports training of field sales.

• Collaborates closely with sales, other members of the marketing team, medical affairs and internal stakeholders to gain a thorough understanding of customer needs and barriers.

• Supports new product launch planning and execution. Works closely with sales management to develop and execute product launches and marketing strategies.

• Participates in and supports channel meetings, national sales meetings or tradeshows to drive customer adoption. Gathers information through informal and formal means such as spending time in the field with customers and sales personnel.

• Manages external agency relationships to develop and execute effective marketing campaigns and uses appropriate data to measure effectiveness of marketing initiatives. Assists with budget management.

• Creates all brand promotional activities within global brand guidelines and within regulatory, corporate and industry guidelines for ethics and compliance.

Required Qualifications

Bachelors Degree with at least 4-6 years of related experience, with at least one year of experience in marketing or product management, or MBA with 1-3 years of related experience.

Strong presentation & communication skills, strategic planning, critical thinking and analysis of market conditions.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in a regulated environment preferred.

Product management experience in medical products or services preferred.

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