GSM Director, Business Data Strategy

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:

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

• 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 Director, Business Data Strategy will lead the development and execution of a comprehensive data strategy roadmap within Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC), focused on responsibly operationalizing connected medical device, digital, cloud data and commercial systems to improve product quality, customer experience, and commercial engagement.  The role owns what business value the data product must deliver, ensures fitness for business use, and acts as the business authority for data quality, definitions, and governance.  This role is accountable for end‑to‑end data product outcomes from vision and prioritization through release, adoption, and measurable business value realization and is accountable for what value is delivered, not how solutions are technically built

What You'll Work On
 

This role will report to the DVP of Global Strategic Marketing and lead a team of data professionals to solve strategic questions that guide the development of innovative data solutions and measure their success in driving intended business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for maximizing business value from data products by setting strategic direction, defining success measures, prioritizing the business backlog, and approving readiness for release.  Serves as final business authority on whether a data product is fit for business use

• Serves as business owner of domain data, ensuring it is accurate, well-defined, trusted, and used appropriately by setting clear definitions and KPIs, managing privacy and access expectations, approving data for business use, and addressing data quality or usability issues when they arise.  Owns metrics, definitions, hierarchies, and calculation logic, to ensure a single version of truth across ADC

• Serves as the business voice in data governance and ethics decisions, ensures standards are applied in everyday practice, leads and empowers Data Stewards to deliver measurable business value, and drives adoption of governance as a core business discipline. Directly accountable for stewardship effectiveness and outcomes, tying governance activities to business impact

• Provides feedback as a strategic partner to medical product and business enablement teams by applying a deep understanding of device development lifecycles and post-market surveillance to enable appropriate, high-value use of connected system data.  Acts as the business escalation point for data integrity, or misuse issues affecting regulated products or customer experience

• Drives adoption and measurable business value from data products after launching by focusing on real decisions and actions, tracking usage and outcomes, and building data literacy and confidence to support self-service and informed decision making.  Accountable for defining and measuring adoption, usage, and value realization of metrics after deployment.

• Enables proactive identification of p