Therapy Development Manager MEA AVD

About Abbott:

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 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .

  
  

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

  
  

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.

Vascular

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

THERAPY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER-MEA

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES

• Defining, creating and implementing marketing strategies, objectives and actions for a specific product, product group or therapy, for  market of responsibility.

JOB RESPONSIBILITES

• Definition of strategic priorities: product launches, key campaigns.
• Effective product launches including positioning, implementation and tracking.
• Tailoring of Emerging Markets plans to individual needs of key accounts in the region.
• Support Therapy Development Specialist in the region by providing guidance, tools and training support.
• Identify competitive advantages of AV products and create sales and marketing materials that contribute towards more effective market impact and increased differentiation from competition.          
• Implementation of activities: road shows, internal meetings, employee training conference calls, AV symposia
• Identifying clinical needs in existing and potential accounts.
• Engaging with KOLs on educational activities and research projects.
• Responsible for ensuring that all questions of a technical nature from the field, internal sources and physicians are answered in an expeditious manner and reported to the relevant contacts within Abbott.
• Perform trainings / Education to physicians, technician & nurses on the use of new products
•  Ensure compliance in performing the training as required by the training procedure
• Ensure compliance in reporting product experiences according to AV requirement

Knowledge & Skills

Relevant Product Knowledge

• Excellent presentation skills
• Competency in MS Office applications
• Ability to travel
• Excellent in English
• Demonstrated abilities in coordinating projects and working with the medical profession

Required Competencies

Teamwork/Collaboration, Adaptability

• Customer Focus
• Planning and Organizing
• Flexible, proactive and result oriented
• Good problem-solving skills
• Team player behavior

Educational Requirements

• University Degree in medical / Engineering/Business
• Master degree in Marketing is preferable

Experience

• Experience in a sales and marketing role in the Health Care Industry is a must
• Preferred an experience in the Medical devices, vascular field is preferable

Location

Riyadh Saudi

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The base pay for this position is

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.