Group Lead, Strategic Pricing & Contracting

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:

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 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 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.

The Opportunity

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,

nutritional's and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. For years, Abbott's medical device businesses have offered technologies that are faster, more effective, and less invasive.Whether it's glucose monitoring systems, innovative therapies for treating heart disease, or products that help people with chronic pain or movement disorders, our medical device technologies are designed to help people live their lives better and healthier. Every day, our technologies help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

Our team in Austin, TX is looking for a Group Lead, Strategic Pricing & Contracting will be working in support of the Medical Devices US Sales Division, the Group Lead Strategic Pricing & Contract analyst will interface with Sales, Sales Management, Sales Operations, Marketing, Finance, Legal, OCE, and Customer Service to apply business management principles and financial concepts to that maximize the company’s performance against sales and profit goals and minimize risk.

Position will support the following Business Unit: CRM Cardiac Rhythm Management.

The ideal candidate must proactively research, analyze, and interpret data to produce substantiated recommendations and to work effectively in a high-pressure, high-demand sales support environment.

What You’ll Work On

• Analysis, strategy development, and decision making.  Oversee contracting and contacting related activities for a team of Strategic Pricing & Contract analysts. 

• Responsible for contract related analysis for a set geographic territory such as pricing, contract development and contract execution.

• Must possess ability to understand the level of data needed and technical skills to build custom models and analysis to support decision making process. This includes the ability to identify and derive data from the appropriate systems and build analytical models across multiple data sets that can be adjusted to satisfy various proposal structures.

• Analytical support for the various functional groups within the CRM BU

• Supports the Strategic Pricing & Contracting Manager with the development and implementation of price approvals, contract creation and execution.

• Works within audit guidelines for contract approval and contract creation.

• Responsi