Manager Global Strategic 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:

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

We are seeking a Manager Global Strategic Insights to join the Global Strategic Marketing team within our Vascular business, based in Santa Clara, CA. 

Our Vascular business develops innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of coronary and peripheral vascular disease.

As a global leader and trusted partner in cardiovascular medical technologies, Abbott’s Vascular business is dedicated to advancing care for people impacted by cardiovascular disease. We develop and deliver life-changing, minimally invasive technologies that empower clinicians to navigate complex cases with greater insight, intuition, and innovation. 

This is a fully onsite, individual contributor role. 

This Manager role is responsible for delivering integrated, data-driven market insights that inform strategic decision-making and long-term planning. The individual will synthesize and develop analytics across the voice of country (epidemiology, macro trends, and forecasting), voice of customer (blinded primary market research and segmentation), and voice of competitor (market share tracking and competitive intelligence) to create clear, compelling narratives that guide business strategy.

What You’ll Work On

Responsibilities include assessing existing and emerging market opportunities across therapeutic areas and geographies, supporting product and portfolio strategy development, and contributing to demand planning and forecasting processes. The role partners cross-functionally to align insights with financial planning cycles (LRP, Plan, Updates) and helps translate evolving healthcare, regulatory, and customer dynamics into actionable recommendations that strengthen prioritization, investment decisions, and overall strategic direction. This role is a balance of data analytics, data story-telling, and influencing cross-divisional and regional stakeholders with data. ​

• Develops strategic insights for product line(s) in an effective manner while providing direction and guidance to meet strategic plan needs. Participates in or drives strategic and financial planning/forecasting for products and markets, incorporating insights from voice of country, customer, and competitor.

• Fosters a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.

• Keeps the organization's strategic intent at the forefront of planning, decision making and action, ensuring alignment with data-driven market insights and long-range opportunity assessments.

• Builds and delivers integrated market analytics and data-driven storytelling, synthesizing forecasting (voice of country), blinded market research (voice of customer), and market share/competitive intelligence (voice of competitor) to inform strategic decisions.

• Builds strategic partnerships to further business objectives, partnering cross-functionally (Commercial, Finance, Medical, Market Access) to embed insights into planning and execution.

• Leads assessment of existing and emerging markets, identifying growth opportunities across geographies and therapeutic areas through robust analytics and insight generation.

• Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations, etc.).

• Analyzes and translates complex data into clear, actionable recommendations that influence portfolio prioritization, investment decisions, and long-term forecasting.

• Has a strong understanding of market analytics, forecasting methodologies, and insight generation, applying these concepts effectively to guide business strategy.

• Functions with a high degree of independence, proactively identifying insights and opportunities with minimal direction.

• Is sought out by stakeholders for expertise in market analytics, forecasting, and strategic insights.

• Provides leadership to assigned staff and supervisors by communicating and providing guidance towards achieving business objectives, including embedding insight-driven decision making.

• Assignments are expressed in the form of objectives; makes decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules in order to achieve the program objectives established by senior management; consequences of erroneous decisions or recommendations would normally include critical delays and modifications to projects or operations with substantial expenditure of time, human resources, and funds, and may jeopardize future business activity, with a strong emphasis on accuracy and rigor in data interpretation and forecasting.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

• Bachelors Degree

• Masters Degree Preferred

• Minimum 8 years in brand management, marketing, market research experience or related work experience.

• Will perform this job in a quality system environment.  Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.  Develops and/or identifies new work processes and the improved utilization of human and material resources within the assigned or related functions or groups. Facilitates others' participation in the continuous improvement program. Investigates and solves problems that impact work processes and personnel within or across units or departments.  Develops and communicates a vision for the organizational unit assigned.

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Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

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

$130,700.00 – $261,300.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Market Development and Research

     

DIVISION:

AVD Vascular

        

LOCATION:

United States > Santa Clara : Building B - SC

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 20 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

     

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

     

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

     

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf