Director, Global Strategic 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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Director of Global Strategic Insights is responsible for delivering actionable intelligence, advanced analytics, and strategic counsel that enables Abbott’s $3B Vascular Business Unit to make insight‑driven decisions. This role builds and maintains the organization’s fact base, synthesizes market and customer insights, and partners with franchises, regions, and senior leadership to identify opportunities, shape investment choices, and accelerate global growth, innovation, and competitive advantage.

Leadership & People Management

• Lead and develop the Global Strategic Insights organization by setting clear priorities, building capabilities, strengthening analytic and strategic acumen, and optimizing tools, talent, and budget to deliver measurable business impact.
• Foster a high‑performance, customer‑centric culture grounded in curiosity, collaboration, proactive thinking, and evidence‑based decision‑making.
• Establish operating rhythms that ensure rigorous analysis and translate data into clear, actionable insights.

Cross-Functional & Cross-Regional Partnership

• Serve as the enterprise Voice of the Customer and Industry, ensuring that customer needs, market realities, and external dynamics directly inform strategic choices and execution.
• Partner closely with Global Marketing, Regional Commercial teams, R&D, Clinical, HEOR, and Finance to drive aligned, insight‑driven decisions across regions.
• Anticipate stakeholder needs by “running ahead of the question” — proactively identifying issues, opportunities, and implications before they emerge.
• Conduct ongoing informal market sensing by maintaining a strong pulse on trends and sentiment through regular engagement with field teams, regional partners, medical affairs, and physicians.

Strategic & Business Planning

• Lead insights development for annual and 5-year strategic planning, ensuring strategies are grounded in robust fact bases, forward-looking analytics, and customer‑need–driven opportunities.
• Guide scenario planning, competitive anticipation, and long-range market evolution analysis to shape strategic choices and mitigate risk.
• Elevate strategic discussions through the lens of Total Addressable Problem — identifying the core customer problems Abbott can uniquely solve and mapping associated market opportunities

Market Modeling & Forecasting

• Build and maintain Vascular’ s global “single source of truth” for market sizing, segmentation, share, and growth, enabling consistent decision-making across functions and regions.
• Deliver transparent, high-quality, forecasting models to support Organic Execution Model (OEM) alignment, Latest Best Estimate (LBE) planning, New Product Introduction (NPI) assessments, and investment prioritization.
• Identify inflection points, emerging trends, and possible futures through scenario modeling and sensitivity analyses.

Market Intelligence

• Assess customer needs, clinical trends, economic pressures, and industry dynamics to uncover performance levers and inform strategic decisions.
• Synthesize fragmented data into clear insights and compelling storylines that translate market signals into practical recommendations for franchises and leadership.
• Identify enabling technologies, competitive threats, and growth drivers that shape portfolio strategy and commercial execution.
• Incorporate continuous real-world feedback and learnings to validate intelligence, assess market sentiment, and detect early signals of change.

Primary & Secondary Market Research

• Lead the design and execution of primary and secondary research to uncover actionable customer insights, refine value propositions, and support go‑to‑market strategy.
• Apply advanced qualitative and quantitative methods, including as unmet‑need assessments, pricing elasticity studies, ethnography, and customer journey mapping.
• Translate research findings into clear business guidance, framing insights with supporting data, strategic implications, and recommended actions.

Competitive Intelligence

• Drive a proactive competitive intellig