Country Manager Heart Failure UK & Ireland

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/AIn 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