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Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. 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 to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced senior leader to join the reimbursed Nutrition team as Sales Director, responsible for maximizing the division’s sales and margin, achieving national market share targets across core adult, infant and paediatric markets, through superb leadership of the regional management team.

Reporting to the General Manager UK & Ireland, in this national role you will:

• Deliver sales and margin goals for the division

• Ensure volume growth in Abbott Contract areas

• Achieve annual national market share targets

• Recruit, retain and coach/develop people, motivating high performing teams

• Manage budgets within agreed parameters, assist in forecasting and budget planning

• Contribute to and delivering divisional strategic goals

• Identify opportunities, supporting key accounts and customers, and driving the contracting process

• Establish key relationships with industry/customer groups as well as Opinion leader development and liaison with key professional bodies

• Monitor KPI’s and ensuring data warehousing utilised to provide full effort results capabilities

• Assist in the identification of new product opportunities and ensuring suitable launch and activity strategies

• Drive sales force effectiveness, omni channel activities etc. and assist marketing develop campaigns

• Lead sales conferences and fully contribute to the Nutrition Leadership team

What you’ll need:

• A degree

• Prior sales management/sales director experience within healthcare (nutrition/pharma ideally)

• Solid understanding of regulatory, medical and contracting functions

• Ideally some prior experience within marketing

• Strong analytical skills/commercial acumen, negotiating skills and will to win

• Presentation skills

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.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com