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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

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 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 Manager, 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.

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