EMEA Global Competitive Intelligence Project Manager

at  Abbott Laboratories

Help advance the Global Market Insights team’s mission to combine empathy and analytics in a way that provoke bold actions to best serve our customers.
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 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
At Abbott, we believe people with diabetes should have the freedom to enjoy active lives. That’s why we’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health more effectively and comfortably, with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.
Our location in Wiesbaden, Germany currently has an opportunity for a Global Competitive Intelligence Project Manager. In this role you will help advance the Global Market Insights team’s mission to combine empathy and analytics in a way that provoke bold actions to best serve our customers. This position will lead key competitive insights initiatives and fuel growth by delivering actionable insights that guide strategy and influence decision making across product development and marketing / commercial efforts. This position is responsible for deeply understanding the competitive landscape in the European market and elevating those insights to our global organization. They will also be responsible for translating global insights down to local activation in their regional market. This individual should have a strong ability to communicate and will be accountable for synthesizing and translating insights into strategic recommendations and actions at senior leadership levels.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 7 years of experience working in a matrix environment with track record of career growth
• Must have experience working in business analytics/forecasting, competitive intelligence. Experience in healthcare, consumer packaged goods, medical devices or pharmaceuticals a plus.
• Ability to understand business needs and develop and communicate information around those needs will drive success within this position
• Detail oriented: understands implications of data limitations and can spot and interpret data discrepancies.
• Expertise in synthesizing across multiple data sets in a meaningful way
• Conducts products in a consistent and representative manner with attention to detail. Ability to apply logic, critical thinking, and assumptions without complete information.
• Whole brained thinker who combines data with deep empathy and strong storytelling
• Experience working with interdependent cross-functional and global teams
• Strategic thinker who approaches challenges with a “possibilities and learning” mindset
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to navigate dynamic project scopes
• Strong project management skills and ability to carry multiple projects at any given time

• Collaborates with the commercial teams across European region of our Diabetes Care Division to provide competitive insights based on primary and/ or secondary research and analytics.
• Understands the marketplace, competitor dynamics and ensures those insights are brought to life and acted upon with our global and regional business partners.
• Leverages multiple sources of data and types of information to build conviction on your team that drives action with our global and regional market teams.
• Deliver structured communications in written and verbal form on competitors and the category with insights and implications to the business.
• Work with cross-functional stakeholders to define and execute learning needs that are aligned to organizational goals.
• Subject matter expert on our competitive landscape with your business partners.
• Finds creative and compelling ways to generate, present and evangelize competitive actions and recommendations throughout the company in order to help cultivate a highly informed and effective organization.
• Connects the dots between disparate pieces of information to develop prescriptive recommendations on how to grow the business.