Senior Manager, Strategic Planning

Abbott Laboratories; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Planning for the Diabetes Care Division at our Alameda, CA location. You will support the Head of Strategy and Business Development in driving divisional strategic planning, analyzing industry trends, and quantifying opportunities to sustain growth and differentiation.

You will lead cross-functional teams, develop executive materials, and guide workshops with senior leadership to shape the company’s innovation portfolio and strategic roadmap.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with at least 8 years related business experience or MBA with 6 years related experience.
• 5 years related business experience.

Responsibilities

• Conduct deep analyses to evaluate opportunities for ADC.
• Research category and adjacent industry trends; conduct secondary and primary research.
• Collaborate with Competitive Intelligence, Analytics, Market Research, and other ADC teams.
• Analyze strategic opportunities, including development of high-level quantitative business models.
• Lead and program manage cross-functional working teams to gather input and drive analyses.
• Synthesize analyses in Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Support innovation strategic planning sessions and executive meetings.
• Drive major portions of materials for biannual senior executive workshops and other planning meetings.
• Shape top strategic questions to maintain competitive differentiation.
• Project manage activities and deadlines leading up to key meetings.
• Collaborate across the business to collect data and synthesize perspectives.
• Advance integrated strategic planning process across ADC.
• Help design expanded, more integrated planning processes.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Strategic planning experience

PowerPoint & Excel

Healthcare experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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 forfree medical coverage in ourHealth Investment Plan (HIP) PPOmedical 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 Alameda, CA location in the Diabetes Care Division. We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health 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.

As the Senior Manager, Strategic Planning you will support the Head of Strategy and Business Development in driving divisional strategic planning. The Strategic Planning team assists senior leadership in making decisions on innovation portfolio and pipeline to maintain competitive differentiation and achieve growth goals.

This person will conduct fact-based analyses that synthesize industry trends, identify and assess strategic options, and quantify opportunities. He/she will support the Strategic Planning Director in all aspects of ADC strategic planning, including creating material to guide key executive workshops and meetings and collaborating across the organization.

What You’ll Work On

• Conduct deep analyses to evaluate opportunities for ADC
• Research category and adjacent industry trends; conduct secondary research as well as primary, interview-based research as needed
• Collaborate with Competitive Intelligence, Analytics, Market Research, and other ADC teams to aggregate and synthesize information
• Analyze strategic opportunities, including development of high-level quantitative business models
• Lead and program manage cross-functional working teams / efforts to gather input and drive analyses
• Synthesize analyses in Microsoft PowerPoint
• Support innovation strategic planning sessions and other key executive meetings
• Drive major portions of materials for the biannual senior executive innovation workshops, as well as materials for other key strategic planning meetings
• Shape and structure top strategic questions the organization must answer to maintain competitive differentiation
• Project manage activities and deadlines leading up to key meetings, and track and manage action items coming out of meetings
• Collaborate with individuals and teams across the business to collect data/analysis, flesh out ideas, and synthesize perspectives
• Advance integrated strategic planning process
• Help design and implement expanded, more integrated strategic planning process across ADC

Experience You'll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with at least 8 years related business experience or MBA with 6 years related experience.
• 5 years related business experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills, and strong fact-based strategic problem solving
• Excellent logical communication (oral and written)
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate across functions and levels
• Functional experience in strategic planning, management consulting, investment banking, business development, or venture capital
• Driven self-starter able to balance competing priorities and work well under schedule pressures
• Considerable experience with / comfort using Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
• Healthcare experience preferred

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

CRM

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Diabetes

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health 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.

Vascular

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission: why we exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

EP

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

HF

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

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.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest live

The base pay for this position is $148,700.00 – $297,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.