Senior Product Manager – Infectious Disease

Abbott; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 113,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Free medical coverage for employees

Strong retirement savings plan with高em

Tuition reimbursement

Freedom 2 Save student debt program

FreeU education benefit

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Sr. Product Manager to lead the Infectious Disease portfolio. You will drive product marketing, launch planning, and global campaigns, coordinating with R&D, sales, and regional teams to deliver customer value and growth.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and global market insights. You will partner with global area teams, influence stakeholders, and travel up to 25% to support launches and expansion across markets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, life sciences, engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of product marketing/brand marketing experience in healthcare or medical products.
• 2 years' experience in marketing / product management.
• Experience in product management/development and launch, including go-to-market planning.
• Experience in developing compelling content for marketing materials.
• Strong presentation & communication skills, strategic planning, critical thinking, decision-making capabilities, and analysis of market conditions.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with ability to influence others without authority.
• Demonstrated collaboration skills with ability to build alignment across variety of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated learning agility with ability to quickly master new topic areas.
• Ability to travel globally up to 25% of time dependent on business needs.
• Familiarity with IVD market, industry practices and understanding of the core lab, with emphasis on immunoassays.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate strong product and brand marketing capabilities, including development of customer-centric messaging, global campaign execution, market development initiatives, and portfolio positioning across multiple stakeholders and regions.
• Build the strategic marketing expertise required to independently lead an Infectious Disease portfolio, including ownership of franchise strategy, commercialization planning, launch excellence, and long-range growth initiatives.
• Support the global product strategy, product development and commercialization of products in the Infectious Disease portfolio.
• Creatively build a global marketing plan to position our product lines to help countries achieve elimination goals.
• Collaborate on the execution of global marketing initiatives to grow our business including global product and portfolio strategy and roadmap; championing product development; formulating launch, marketing, and sales strategies; and providing on-market support.
• Serve as product/market expert related to product positioning, claims, competitive information, product performance, etc.
• Provide direction on user needs and product requirements based on insights generated from market research, customer input, internal stakeholder feedback, etc.
• Participate in strategic planning initiatives such as portfolio management process and long-range strategic planning.
• Provide leadership and direction to R&D and support organizations throughout product development cycle (e.g., trade-off analysis across customer, financial and timeline impacts).
• Develop sales tools (literature, brochures, website, and all media), training materials, and field sales and customer communications to support sales and the customer and address any product line issues.
• Ensure launch and post-launch success by providing support to global commercial organizations and on-market teams.

Skills

Presentation skills

Communication skills

Strategic planning

Critical thinking

Decision making

Market analysis

Leadership

Collaboration

Learning agility

Global travel

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, life sciences, engineering, or related technical discipline

Job description

Abbott is seeking a Sr. Product Manager to lead the Infectious Disease portfolio. You will drive product marketing, launch planning, and global campaigns, coordinating with R&D, sales, and regional teams to deliver customer value and growth.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and global market insights. You will partner with global area teams, influence stakeholders, and travel up to 25% to support launches and expansion across markets.