Project Manager, Competitive Insights

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 Opportunity

This position works out of our Alameda, CA location in the Diabetes Care division where we are 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.

As the Project Manager, Global Market and Competitive Insights you will support our global strategic marketing and commercial organization in the Diabetes Care Division. This position will lead key competitive insights initiatives and fuel growth by delivering actionable insights that guide strategy and influence decision making across product development and marketing / commercial efforts. This position is responsible for deeply understanding the competitive landscape and elevating insights to our global organization. This individual should have a strong ability to communicate and will be accountable for synthesizing and translating insights into strategic recommendations and actions at senior leadership levels.

What You’ll Work On

Conduct primary and secondary market research and analysis to provide market and competitive insights to the organization. Collaborate with stakeholders to support the business in making insights-driven recommendations. Success within this position will be achieved through rigorous application of project-specific methodologies and analysis (in partnership with outside vendors) and development of business understanding to identify strategic insights around key priorities.

Major Responsibilities

• Collaborates with the internal teams to provide competitive insights based on primary and/or secondary research and analytics.
• Understands the marketplace, competitor dynamics and ensures those insights are brought to life and acted upon with our global and regional business partners.
• Leverages multiple sources of data and types of information to build conviction on your team that drives action with our global and regional teams.
• Deliver structured communications in written and verbal form with insights and implications to the business.
• Work with cross-functional stakeholders to define and execute learning needs that are aligned to organizational goals.
• Finds creative and compelling ways to generate, present and evangelize competitive actions and recommendations throughout the company in order to help cultivate a highly informed and effective organization.
• Connects the dots between disparate pieces of information to develop prescriptive recommendations on how to grow the business.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 7 years of experience working in a matrix environment with track record of career growth.
• Must have experience working in business analytics/forecasting, competitive intelligence. Experience in healthcare, consumer packaged goods, medical devices or pharmaceuticals a plus.
• Ability to understand business needs and develop and communicate information around those needs will drive success within this position.
• Detail oriented: understands implications of data limitations and can spot and interpret data discrepancies.
• Expertise in synthesizing across multiple data sets in a meaningful way.
• Conducts products in a consistent and representative manner with attention to detail. Ability to apply logic, critical thinking, and assumptions without complete information.
• Whole brained thinker who combines data with deep empathy and strong storytelling.
• Experience working with interdependent cross-functional and global teams.
• Strategic thinker who approaches challenges with a “possibilities and learning” mindset.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to navigate dynamic project scopes.
• Strong project management skills and ability to carry multiple projects at any given time.
• Willing and able to travel domestically and internationally as required. Estimated international travel is expected to be one trip each quarter.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree
• Diabetes category experience
  
  

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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 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 through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of 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.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections 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 are 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.

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 $112,000.00 – $224,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.