Senior Analyst Competitive Intelligence

Abbott; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 78,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free medical coverage

Excellent retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

FreeU education benefit

Job summary

Abbott, a global healthcare leader, invites talented professionals to join its Molecular Diagnostics-focused team in Lake Forest, IL. This role focuses on competitive intelligence, data synthesis, and strategic planning to guide business decisions across divisions.

The position emphasizes analytical rigor, collaboration with marketing and sales training teams, and creating insightful dashboards and reports to support growth and innovation.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize data from multiple sources into clear actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain intelligence on Abbott and competitor pipelines, strategies, and positioning.
• Collect, interpret, and disseminate competitive intelligence across assigned segments; synthesize data from multiple sources to generate actionable insights.
• Proactively communicate competitive updates and insights to global business partners in a timely manner.
• Support development of strategic plans and long-range business planning initiatives.
• Manage external partners to process and report data, including onboarding new datasets, defining data harmonization logic, and ensuring data quality.
• Analyze data using multiple secondary sources (e.g., IQVIA) to support business decision-making.
• Driving competitive intelligence initiatives, including wargaming and scenario planning exercises.
• Building and automating reporting solutions and dashboards in Excel to enhance data accessibility and insights.
• Designing and delivering impactful data visualizations and analyses for key stakeholders.
• Developing competitor playbooks and educational tools to support commercial and sales effectiveness.
• Partnering with Global Strategic Marketing and Sales Training teams to create and deploy training content.
• Supporting innovation and continuous improvement in data reporting, analytics, and insight generation.
• Monitoring emerging trends in the healthcare landscape and translating them into strategic recommendations.
• Contributing to cross-functional, high-impact projects that shape business strategy and growth

Skills

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in marketing or MBA

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION

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 the Molecular Diagnostics division. 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. Our molecular division delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions. We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions. delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions. We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions.

What You’ll Work On

• Develop and maintain intelligence on Abbott and competitor pipelines, strategies, and positioning
• Collect, interpret, and disseminate competitive intelligence across assigned segments; synthesize data from multiple sources to generate actionable insights
• Proactively communicate competitive updates and insights to global business partners in a timely manner
• Support development of strategic plans and long-range business planning initiatives
• Manage external partners to process and report data, including onboarding new datasets, defining data harmonization logic, and ensuring data quality
• Analyze data using multiple secondary sources (e.g., IQVIA) to support business decision-making.
• Driving competitive intelligence initiatives, including wargaming and scenario planning exercises
• Building and automating reporting solutions and dashboards in Excel to enhance data accessibility and insights
• Designing and delivering impactful data visualizations and analyses for key stakeholders
• Developing competitor playbooks and educational tools to support commercial and sales effectiveness
• Partnering with Global Strategic Marketing and Sales Training teams to create and deploy training content
• Supporting innovation and continuous improvement in data reporting, analytics, and insight generation
• Monitoring emerging trends in the healthcare landscape and translating them into strategic recommendations
• Contributing to cross-functional, high-impact projects that shape business strategy and growth

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing with 4 years of experience or MBA with 2 years of Marketing experience
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize data from multiple sources into clear actionable insights.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, Science, Engineering, Economics, Data analytics, Marketing

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

The base pay for this position is $78,000.00 – $156,000.00

JOB FAMILY: Market Development and Research DIVISION: AMD Molecular LOCATION: United States > Lake Forest : J55 ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: United States > Chicago : Willis Tower Building 233 S Wacker Dr. WORK SHIFT: Standard TRAVEL: Yes, 5 % 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.

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

Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health. The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well-being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life’s greatest health challenges.

We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

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