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About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

In Germany, Abbott has more than 4,000 employees working in manufacturing, research and development, logistics, manufacturing, sales and marketing. They are located at Abbott`s German headquarters in Wiesbaden and its sites in Hanover, Neustadt am Rübenberge, Wetzlar, Eschborn, Cologne, Jena and Hamburg.

W orking at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters and help people to live a healthier and full life, grow your career, and learn, be your true self. You will have access to:

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

• An attractive benefits package (e.g.attractive Abbott Pension Plan, a company bike, employee stock purchase program)

• 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.

• A challenging position in a fast-growing crisis independent industry

• To become part of a dynamic, highly educated, highly skilled, and motivated team

• Flat hierarchies, open appreciative mentality, and efficient, constructive lines of communication

• Multi-national environment, where we foster the development of our talents within the enterprise

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Wiesbaden location in the Abbott Diabetes Care - Abbott GmbH. We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Your Tasks:

• Coordinate business planning cycles’ consolidation for EMEAP, LATAM and APAC

• Prepare IBP/LBE Deck and other deliverables for International markets

• Prepare and follow up IBP minutes for International Markets and support countries/regions on their commercial priority requests

• Be the point of contact for Global, regions and affiliates on business planning cycles’ deliverables, establish alignment and collaboration between EMEAP, LATAM and APAC

• Follow up and support commercial priorities/requests with relevant stakeholders between Global, regions and affiliates

• Provide appropriate strategic recommendations that improves effectiveness of our core business planning processes and create synergies in between regions

• Establish strong communication within Area, Global and Affiliates to drive best practices on core business planning processes

• Understand major strategies for the Area and Affiliates, serve as a link between International Markets, Global and Affiliates

• Collaborate with Finance, commercial and other relevant stakeholders to ensure alignment and integration with the financial forecasting processes

• Proactively identify, develop and lead rollout of new tools, systems and processes to simplify and improve commercial effectiveness and analytics

Your Qualification:

• Graduate university level education – preferably in business/scientific-related disciplines. Master’s degree is a plus

• Previous Integrated Business Planning/project management or consulting experience is a plus

• Min 5 years of previous experience, preferably within the medical device or pharmaceutical industry

• Strong analytical skills: ability to analyze data from a wide range of internal and external sources and translate these into powerful insights

• Strong ability to build relationships and work in a team to establish trust and exercise influence with internal clients and other key stakeholders

• Can manage upstream and downstream with equal confidence through very good interpersonal communication skills

• Capability to work under pressure in a dynamic environment to deliver on communicated timelines and objectives

• Fluent in written and spoken English, knowledge of a second language is desirable

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

We ask for your understanding that we only consider online applications via our online application portal. Applications by email or post cannot be processed. Original documents will not be returned. 

Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbott-/ , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

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