Director of Global Strategy & Insights

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:** A healthy heart is essential to good health. That's why we're committed to advancing treatments for people with cardiovascular disease. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Management, our breakthrough medical technologies help restore people's health so they can get back to living their best lives. We focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats. Our location in Austin, TX (or Sylmar, CA) currently has an opportunity for a Global Strategy and Insights Director role. This leader will be integral to the team. He/she is responsible for establishing and leading a global function of strategy and insights. This role plays a critical role in shaping strategic direction, identifying growth opportunities, and driving short-term and long-term goals for a billion-dollar, global business. This person will also help us understand our global markets, our market share in different countries and regions, and help track our competition's developments. He/she will lead the team that drives our market research efforts to understand unmet market needs. In addition, this team gathers all the third-party data to help the global commercial teams better understanding market trends. This leader is a crucial partner to the executive leadership team as we develop our strategy for short and long-term growth. This person will be involved in organic and inorganic market growth options. He/ She will help drive strategic plans and tactically execute on the key insights this team delivers. We are a big business within the Abbott family, with a start-up feel. We are paced to become the market leaders. We make a difference every day. If you want a fast-paced, challenging job with excellent rewards, this is a role for you. **WHAT YOU'LL DO** - People Management: Lead the Global Strategy and Insights organization within the Cardiac Rhythm Management business unit, including setting goals, defining priority, hiring talents, building capabilities, and managing budget and operation to achieve business results. - Champion a customer-centric culture; Drive cross-function, cross-region collaboration - Product Management: Initial analysis & on-going product management of long-tail lateral flow product lines, including kill/cure/continue (lifecycle management) recommendations. - Strategic & Business Planning: Provide strategic leadership, planning, and direction to the organization to drive growth and profitability through annual strategic planning and ongoing strategic initiatives. Guide franchise and functional plan, and ensure the alignment with BU strategy. - Identify market opportunities that can differentiate the business from competition and enable profitable growth. Drive portfolio optimization of both new and existing products. - Market Modeling & Forecasting: Build a consistent fact base of market size, share and growth across franchises and regions in the Abbott ID business; Drive cross-functional alignment and form the “single source of truth” for OEM, LBE, NPI and business assessments. - Market Intelligence: Assess customer needs, conduct competitive analysis, and identify enabling products, technologies, and business levers to optimize performance and enable revenue and margin growth: - Market research to capture customer insights and articulate market landscape, such as unmet need to refine value prop, pricing elasticity to drive commercialization, and ethnography to identify drivers and barriers for new product adoption. Experienced in Market Research management. Manage the most complex, large, or difficult…