Sales Specialist, Retail Sales

Abbott; Illinois; On-site; USD 61,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott Laboratories seeks a Sales Specialist, Retail Sales for a remote-based role supporting Abbott ARDx Consumer Services & Products. You will maintain and grow the women’s health private label brand at key retail accounts, delivering strategic initiatives aligned with business goals and customer priorities.

The role requires strong communication, collaboration across marketing, finance, supply chain, and leadership, and the ability to present proposals to executives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent.
• 2–5 years of sales experience.
• Ability to clearly and concisely convey communications.
• Ability to develop relationships and work with teams.

Responsibilities

• Achieve sales targets through efficient and effective sales cycle and territory management.
• Maintain sales base while closing new business in both new and existing accounts.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders within accounts and conduct business reviews.
• Develop and implement short and long-term sales strategies and tactical plans.
• Serve as the voice of the customer to influence internal strategies and launch support plans.
• Lead all customer interactions for respective accounts (new item launches, plans, execution).
• Forecast demand and manage costs for accounts.
• Negotiate supply agreements and optimize assortment to boost sales.

Skills

Sales experience

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Analytical thinking

Presentation to executives

Independent worker

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Office

Excel

Nielsen/IRI data

Job description

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 122,000 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 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, 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

The Sales Specialist, Retail Sales is a remote based position supporting Abbott ARDx Consumer Services & Products business.

As the Sales Specialist, Retail Sales, you’ll have direct sales responsibility to maintain, gain and grow the women’s health private label brand (home pregnancy & ovulation tests) at several key strategic retail customers. As part of this responsibility, the Sales Specialist will be responsible for delivering strategic and tactical initiatives that are aligned with both business and customer priorities to achieve customer specific sales and share performance goals. This role will require ongoing identification of growth opportunities and strong collaboration with the customer and internal resources across marketing, finance, supply chain, and global business services. Candidate must possess a high level of comfort sharing strategic proposals with internal and external leadership teams. The candidate must have excellent computer, verbal and written communication skills.

What You’ll Work On

• Achieve sales targets through efficient and effective sales cycle and territory management.
• Maintain sales base while closing new business in both new and existing accounts.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders within accounts. Conduct ongoing internal and external account business reviews to measure, evaluate and drive sales performance.
• Develop and implement short and long-term sales strategies and tactical business plans.
• Serve as the voice of the customer to internal leadership to help influence/ define strategies and short-term launch support plans.
• Leads all customer interactions for respective accounts (new item launches, annual plans, commercial execution).
• Accountable for demand forecasts and lowering controllable costs (e.g. customer fines) for respective accounts.
• Leads supply agreement negotiations, managing cost and assortment discussions to optimize sales performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 2-5 years of sales experience.
• Ability to clearly, concisely and accurately convey communications.
• Ability to form and develop interpersonal, professional relationships.
• Display socially and professionally appropriate behavior.
• Ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Demonstrated initiative and problem‑solving skills.
• Analytical and critical‑thinking skills.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize initiatives based on business need.
• Ability to present material to Executive-level management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of retail sales acumen and category management.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
• Strong interpersonal / leadership skills.
• Work with Nielsen and IRI data to analyze market trends to effectively develop presentations, provide recommendations and business forecasting.
• Initiative to identify growth drivers and then secure resources to support execution.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office (Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
• Experience with Power BI.

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

Connect with us at abbott.com, on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbott-/, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AbbottCareers.

The base pay for this position is $61,300.00 – $122,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.