Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity  

This position works out of our Lake Forest, IL location in Abbott Rapid Diagnostics. This role is on-site daily and not remote.

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.

As the GTM Project Manager, your primary role will be driving launch excellence of key product initiatives through collaboration 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 

• Lead commercialization/launch strategy, planning, and execution for priority NPI programs

• Own and facilitate the monthly NPI/Go-To-Market (GTM) Review with ELT DVPs and Global Commercial VPs, aligning on forecast assumptions that feed into S&OP demand planning.  

• Manage commercialization and launch readiness deliverables across the phase-gate process, ensuring market access, pricing, and launch readiness are embedded early in development.  

• Act as the primary liaison between PMO, R&D, Regulatory, Global Strategic Marketing, Market Access, and Commercial teams to ensure strategic alignment and launch preparedness.  

• Identify and mitigate commercialization risks to reduce time from regulatory approval to first sale.  

• Develop and maintain executive-level reporting tools and dashboards to track commercialization progress.  

• Own, oversee, and continuously improve the Go-To-Market framework for ID, integrating it into NPI processes; lead GTM phase gate reviews to ensure ELT alignment on strategy and execution. 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 8+ years of related work experience
• Solid global product launch and/or training experience required
• 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
• Ability to travel 30% ​including globally if required

Preferred Qualifications 

• MBA strongly preferred
• Commercial financial acumen (demand forecasting, building sales funnels, monitoring lead/lag measures, etc.)
• Global Product Launch experience
• Commercial Sales, Training, or Marketing experience
• Operations, Quality, Regulatory experience
• Professional and Consumer Healthcare product experience
• Smartsheet, MS Project, and Power BI experience or related Master Data capability ​

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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