Sr. Manager, Global Growth Analytics - Abbott Park, IL

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:

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow, to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, Protality® and Glucerna®– to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life.

About Abbott

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 .
• 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.

The Opportunity

Abbott is hiring for a Sr. Manager, Global Growth Analytics for our Abbott Nutrition International team. This position sits onsite at 100 Abbott Park Road, Bldg. AP6C Abbott Park, IL 60064

What You’ll Work On

Partners closely with the Director, Strategic Insights & Analytics to drive a culture of data driven decision making for Abbott Nutrition International (ANI).

Responsible for leading the development of descriptive, diagnostics, predictive and prescriptive (custom models/algorithms) analytics solutions to help guide long-term strategic choices and drive short-term business performance.

Accountable for driving a standardized way of leveraging advanced analytics across the organization to create competitive advantage for ANI teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with ANI stakeholders (Senior leadership, Finance, commercial, marketing, etc.) to understand business needs, challenges and priorities
• Build and optimize the 3-year ANI Growth Analytics Roadmap, in partnership with the other teams of the ANI Global Market Insights & Strategy department. Engage regional and central stakeholders on this roadmap.
• Lead the development and drive adoption of analytics best practices across global and regional teams in prioritized areas such as Business diagnostics (growth drivers, causals), Category growth and Demand forecasting, Strategic pricing & PPA analytics, Marketing Mix Modeling, etc.
• Collaborate with Regional Market Insights teams to develop and drive adoption of growth analytics solutions as part of ANI’s decision intelligence platform
• Synthesize key insights and communicate results/implications to ANI stakeholders, proactively and as integral part of the support to quarterly financial cycle
• Integrate measurement programs (digital, eCommerce, ROI, social listening) and explore novel data sets to generate unique insights
• Manage Analytics partners, explore new vendors and ensure rich ecosystem that brings leading edge Analytics skills and technologies, including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities
• Collaborate closely with ANIT BI & Analytics and Corporate Data Science teams to leverage best-in-class tools and capabilities

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, statistics, mathematics, data analytics, or related field; advanced degree strongly preferred
• 8-10 years of progressive relevant experience, preferably in CPG, management consulting or a