Director - Commercial Excellence And Project Management Office Job in Abbott Laboratories

• Strategy and project management
  • Work closely with the MD office to develop a long term strategy & vision for the business, anticipate the impact of business trends and prepare plans to accommodate business changes while meeting the overall goals of the organization
  • Engage Commercial and Functional Leaders through industry insights, presentation on projects or thought leadership
  • Engage with external partners and agencies such as SMSRC, IMS to get market insights and intelligence
  • Identify transformation initiatives and projects based on short and long term business needs and interact with Regional / Affiliate / Corporate teams effectively for proposal development or project management
  • Set up and work with relevant cross functional teams and support functions such as HR, Finance, Medical and Regulatory on transformation projects
  • Lead the PMO team in detailed design of initiatives, bringing in best practices and insights from internal and external sources (market, competition and other industries) into the project design
  • Independently conceptualize research tools for high end projects
  • Guide PMO team in developing detailed documentation and specifications and in structuring presentations that are appropriate to the characteristics or needs of the audience
  • Partnering with Commercial Directors to identify and triage business development and growth opportunities

• Marketing Excellence
  • Lead the development of an external Abbott image program to increase the familiarity and favorability of the organization across key customer segments
  • Work closely with the Senior Leadership Team to create, develop and implement a strategic and tactical integrated marketing plan for the organization
  • Work across boundaries with different lines of business, and with Leaders to develop key strategies, plans and tactics to increase the organizations image and reputation
  • Maintain responsibility for the positioning of the Corporate brand externally
  • Lead cross-divisional marketing teams to create, operationalize, and implement the integrated marketing plan nationally

• Digital and technology innovation
  • Lead the development and execution of Abbott Specialty Cares digital and technology innovation roadmap / digital strategy and deployment of a:care in India
  • Support the digital team across Abbott Specialty Care to scale up digital assets to improve doctor, patient and pharmacy outcomes

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• Building field force capabilities
  • Drive need identification short and long term; development and improvement of methodologies of training need identification in line with latest trends
  • Drive field force capability building at all levels (entire sales force of 2500+ employees)
  • Guide the team to design programs as per training needs assessment, business requirements
  • Drive thought leadership to make training a USP for the organization to attract and retain talent
  • Driving training as a lever to disseminate organization strategy across field force

• Collaboration with EPD India, global and other regions
  • Liaise with the EPD India Leadership Team to drive priority thematic initiatives in the India region
  • Liaise with the EPD India Leadership Team, Global Marketing Team on best practice sharing and related interventions
  • Lead the execution of EPD Globals digital health initiatives in Abbott Specialty Care across priority therapies (customized to local requirements) to create differentiation in the technology space.
  • Manage the work of project managers.

• Skills

• A proven ability to envision the project, conceptualize and drive changes
• Track record of ability to drive organization strategy and execution
• Demonstrated Project management skills
• Proven consulting skills
• Ability to question the status quo and push the organization to embrace change.

• Education:

  Post Graduate in Management from an institute of repute.

• Experience:

• Minimum 12 + years of overall industry experience of which significant years of experience in people management role.
• Should have an exposure of working in mid-large size businesses ~ $MM 120 or above
• Ideal candidate would have a blend of pharmaceutical/management consulting/FMCG experience
• Management Consulting and Corporate experience is a must.