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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.

Senior Product Manager

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 (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) 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

This position works out of our Kansas City, MO, Richmond, VA, or Lake Forest, IL locations in the Rapid Diagnostics division . We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people. Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

The position of Senior Product Manager analyzes market needs and manages the success of products throughout the product lifecycle. The person hired in this role will be committed to understanding customer needs, defining product vision, and working closely with engineering, sales, public relations, and account management to deliver products that will lead our market.

What You’ll Work On

• Perform research to understand customer needs and identify business opportunities

• Analyze solutions performance, competitiveness, and ability to support emerging trends in the marketplace

• Develop strategies for assigned product/brand based on research and analysis

• Collaborate to hypothesize solutions for new opportunities or unmet needs

• Prioritize opportunities and create a roadmap based on business focus and customer value

• Provide solution needs & success measures to product managers, R&D and application development teams

• Be the go-to solutions portfolio expert for internal and external clients

• Work with downstream marketing to communicate new products and product improvements to internal and external clients

• Develop the core positioning and messaging for assigned solutions

• Work with sales, marketing, and account management to help maximize sales and customer retention

• Work with Quality and Regulatory to ensure delivery of high quality, compliant solutions

• Own Product Lifecycle Management Process for parts of the portfolio

• Measure success of product/feature rollouts

• Must be able to travel 10-15% of the time

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors’ degree

• Minimum eight years’ experience as a Product Marketing Manager, Product Owner, or Product Manager (or industry experience demonstrating similar capabilities)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated success managing a portfolio of products

• Demonstrated project management experience

• Demonstrated success managing product lifecycle for web or mobile applications

• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority

• High sense of urgency to deliver customer value

• Self-motivated to multi-task effectively and work in a fast-paced environment

• Demonstrated ability to create and communicate a compelling business case

• Experience with human resources, healthcare or toxicology-related solutions development

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• Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $97,300.00 – $194,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com