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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.

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 in our Lake Forest, IL location (every day) in Abbott Rapid Diagnostics. The days not in office, will be on the road traveling up to 25% of the time.

As the GTM (Go to Market) Program Manager, your primary role will be driving launch excellence of new products with cross-functional teams across the Infectious Disease portfolio globally. It’ll be critical to understand the markets we are aiming to serve, partner with both regional and global teams, and build relationships to bridge knowledge gaps and influence change without authority. Doing so will result in helping to serve a very broad community of patients globally and serve a greater healthcare need.

What You’ll Work On

• Partner with regional and global cross-functional teams to drive launch excellence of new products, globally.

• Create templates and tools, and conduct training on the Go To Market process, deliverables, and expectations.

• Build relationships as a liaison to both regional and global stakeholders to understand GTM plans, identify gaps, brainstorm solutions, and ensure accountability of teams/deliverables.

• Influence change to align to a global structure, creating excitement and campaigns to help drive adoption.

• Work with launch teams to establish KPIs to quantify success and measure progress regularly.

• Monthly reporting of launch readiness or post-launch execution against KPIs

• Build excitement around successful launches and encourage knowledge sharing across teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business, Biological Science or related field required.

• 7 or more years of related work experience, with at least 5 years of commercial experience.

• Global product launch experience required (healthcare products).

• Travel up to 25%.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA preferred.

• Smartsheet, MS Project, and Power BI experience preferred.

• Experience working in a regulated environment, ideally healthcare

• Solid commercial financial acumen (demand forecasting, building sales funnels, monitoring lead/lag measures, etc)

• Excellent communication/presentation skills, and comfortable with presenting to leadership

• Organized and careful attention to detail

• 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 $95,000.00 – $190,000.00. 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