Head of Marketing Operations

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.

About Lingo

Meet Lingo, a new biosensing technology that provides users a window into their body. Lingo tracks key biomarkers – such as glucose, ketones, and lactate – to help people make better decisions about their health and nutrition. Biowearable technology will digitize, decentralize, and democratize healthcare, enabling consumers to take control of their own health.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Marketing Operations Leader to help scale the Marketing organization for Lingo, Abbott’s rapidly growing consumer biowearables division. This person will play a pivotal role in upleveling how we work as a team, and scale to meet the needs of our rapidly growing business.

What You'll Work On

• Agency Relations: Oversee vendor/agency relations, including onboarding, contracting, and payments, collaborating with key stakeholders across Finance, Procurement, and Legal to establish processes and best practices.

• Resource Management: Oversee Marketing budget management, coordinating with the CMO and Leads to facilitate budget and resource allocation, adherence, and reconciliation to ensure we are meeting the needs of the business, delivering on time and on budget.  

• Creative Review Process: Work to operationalize and streamline the Medical, Legal, and Regulatory (MLR) review processes, including building out a team to reduce workload on Marketers and collaborating with stakeholders on efficient solutions.

• Marketing Operational Excellence: Develop and implement operational processes to streamline overall workflows, improve efficiency, increase collaboration, and enhance the overall effectiveness of the Marketing organization.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Foster effective collaboration and communication between Marketing and key functions across Product, Commerce, Legal, Medical Affairs, Procurement, and Finance.

• Program Management: Coordinate cross-functional projects, initiatives, and meetings to ensure alignment and successful execution of strategic objectives

• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior executives, cross-functional teams, vendors, and partners.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Minimum 10 years progressively responsible marketing experience.

• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.

• Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment.

• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.

• Multitasks, prioritizes and meets deadlines in timely manner. Strong organizational and follow-up skil