Senior Manager, Strategic Planning

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.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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 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. 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.

As the Senior Manager, Strategic Planning you will support the Head of Strategy and Business Development in driving divisional strategic planning. The Strategic Planning team assists senior leadership in making decisions on innovation portfolio and pipeline to maintain competitive differentiation and achieve growth goals.

This person will conduct fact-based analyses that synthesize industry trends, identify and assess strategic options, and quantify opportunities. He/she will support the Strategic Planning Director in all aspects of ADC strategic planning, including creating material to guide key executive workshops and meetings and collaborating across the organization.

What You’ll Work On

• Conduct deep analyses to evaluate opportunities for ADC
• Research category and adjacent industry trends; conduct secondary research as well as primary, interview-based research as needed
• Collaborate with Competitive Intelligence, Analytics, Market Research, and other ADC teams to aggregate and synthesize information
• Analyze strategic opportunities, including development of high-level quantitative business models
• Lead and program manage cross-functional working teams / efforts to gather input and drive analyses
• Synthesize analyses in Microsoft PowerPoint
• Support innovation strategic planning sessions and other key executive meetings
• Drive major portions of materials for the biannual senior executive innovation workshops, as well as materials for other key strategic planning meetings
• Shape and structure top strategic questions the organization must answer to maintain competitive differentiation
• Project manage activities and deadlines leading up to key meetings, and track and manage action items coming out of meetings
• Collaborate with individuals and teams across the business to collect data/analysis, flesh out ideas, and synthesize perspectives
• Advance integrated strategic planning process
• Help design and implement expanded, more integrated strategic planning process across ADC

Experience You'll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with at least 8 years related business experience or MBA with 6 years related experience.
• 5 years related business experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills, and strong fact-based strategic problem solving
• Excellent logical comm