Global Upstream Marketing Product Manager, High Voltage Technologies

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:

Job Title

Global Upstream Marketing Product Manager, High Voltage Technologies

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 Global Upstream Marketing Product Manager, High Voltage Technologies works out of either our Sylmar, CA or Austin, TX locations in the CRM Division. This is a fully onsite role.

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

WHAT YOU’LL DO 

Lead the organization in leveraging passion about healthcare and technology to impact patients’ lives. 

The role will be the lead on product strategy and new product development direction in the specific product line(s) for Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators (ICD) and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy – Defibrillators (CRT-D) (together “high voltage therapies” in Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM). This person will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that the new products or evolutions of existing products provide value to our various customers and improve the standard of care.

The Global Product Manager will work to establish a cohesive vision and strategy on how the portfolio will position Abbott CRM for leadership and work with various stakeholders to ensure the right investments to develop innovative new platforms.  This includes development of strategic marketing plans and activities that drive the flow of new products to our customers in a manner that addresses customer needs, and highlights differentiation and value.

The Global Product Manager is responsible for the product from identification of customer and market needs/wants, to concept and product development, claims and data development, supporting product launch teams, and portfolio management.

The Global Product Manager is responsible for assisting in the following activities for their portfolio:

• Identify new products to be developed to meet new market demands, or the creation of new markets.
• Provide leadership for product/concept justification during funding cycle and provides similar leadership to product development team.
• Identify new business opportunities through expansion of existing products into new markets, or enhancements of existing products to maximize existing markets.
• Support the commercial organizations in achieving Plan/Update objectives.
• Provide direction and input to all in-house groups such as PMO, Operations, Finance, R&D, Quality, and Regulatory that affect the successful achievement of business objectives.
• Drive product strategy for the assigned HV products in collaboration with cross functional partners. Leads within the business unit or related sub-functions.

The Global Product Manager is responsible for identifying global demand for the assigned HV products in a customer-centric manner (exemplified by high satisfaction of needs, and therefore appropriately differentiated and adding value) by partnering with cross-functional teams to develop the strategic marketing plan for the assigned