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Country Manager Heart Failure UK & Ireland
Abbott Laboratories · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom > Solihull : Remote · Remote
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About the role
JOB DESCRIPTION: A fantastic opportunity to join Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) UK & Ireland business at a really exciting time for the division. We are recruiting for a confident, experienced senior leader, to join us Country Manager to lead the Heart Failure division across UK & Ireland. A second-line leader, you will have responsibility for sales revenue, profitability and market growth within the HF teams across all product areas. What you’ll do: · Understand the dynamics of the market relevant to each product area, identify opportunities to grow market share; · Develop and document strategic objectives and translate into operating plans to grow sales and profit in line with agreed company targets; · Develop and execute market growth activities in line with overall strategy and to improve market access for Abbott HF technologies; · Contribute to building and leading a high-performance organization (the role includes distributor management) to deliver HF operating plans by hiring, training, coaching and developing people; use a participative leadership style to encourage ownership and enthusiasm; provides support and feedback to the team, addressing performance management issues or any training gaps urgently; · Communicate the sales vision, strategy and objectives appropriately, encouraging collaboration and teamwork; · Provide all market information, forecasts, business reports and information flows as required by senior management; · Develop high level engagement with external decision influencers; KOLs, reference centers, procurement, and trust/hospital management; · Collaborate with key internal stakeholders including Market Access, HE&R in order to develop local execution plans to accelerate access for non-reimbursed HF technologies; · Support the strategic/Operating Plan process and utilize to develop relevant organisational design, sales plans etc. · Sales process effectiveness - ensure relevant sales tactics are planned for each account and participates in sales visits with the customer account owner/sales management to support goals, coaching the field team; · Budget management – regularly re-evaluates performance against forecasts and budgets and takes timely action to meet agreed targets. What you’ll need: • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience • Demonstrated leadership experience, ideally within devices industry • Prior experience on pathway/therapy development • Demonstrated experience of controlling a budget • Results orientation, problem solver • Decisive decision maker As you’d expect from a global healthcare company, we offer a fantastic range of benefits to support you and your family, including competitive salaries and bonus potential, a superb defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance and a flexible benefits scheme. This is a unique opportunity to develop a business, motivate a newly established team, whilst making a meaningful impact on patients living with heart failure! The base pay for this position is N/A In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted. JOB FAMILY: Sales Force DIVISION: HF Heart Failure LOCATION: United Kingdom > Solihull : Remote ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: WORK SHIFT: Standard TRAVEL: Yes, 75 % of the Time MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: Not Applicable SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment