Global Professional Relations 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 114,000 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 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 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 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  

The Global Professional Relations Product Manager will play a significant role in expanding the strategic plan to support Abbott Structural Heart's commercialization strategy across all franchises. This role will work cross-functionally with marketing, market development, commercial leaders and field team, medical affairs, product training, and R&D to identify and engage key physicians to help Abbott Structural Heart perform best practice clinical research, deliver solutions-based presentations, and provide clinical expertise for new product developments. This individual will report directly to the Global Director of Professional Relations. 
 

What You’ll Work On 

• Develop and facilitate trainings, programming and communication plans for Fellow, Structural Heart Coordinator and Key Physicians. 

• Manage current KOL platform contracting (speaking/consulting), compliance, program scheduling including verification with sales and marketing programs to support and verify speaker/consulting activity. Interact with Office of Ethics and Compliance. 

• Partner closely with marketing and market development on the content development of MD to MD education for physician education  

• Monitor, analyze, and evaluate performance and customer feedback to generate new program ideas and approaches. 

• Act as a point of internal contact for strategic initiatives within professional relations.    

• Evaluate improvement opportunities, prepare business case, present preferred options, and gain alignment from global leadership on chosen option for key initiatives and customer relations strategy. 

• Up to 40% travel maybe required 

Qualifications 

Required:

• Bachelors Degree with up to 4 years related experience, or MBA with up to 2 yrs. related experience.

• Background in Interventional Cardiology or Structural Heart space is preferred. 

• Experience engaging and maintaining KOL relationships. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to influence, lead, negotiate, and work effectively at all levels.