Vendor Partner Alliance Manager

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

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

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

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

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

The Opportunity

The position of Vendor Partner Alliance Manager is within Abbott Rapid Diagnostics in our Informatics business unit. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe.

This role will be based out of our, Lake Forest, Illinois or Willis Tower near Chicago, or remote near a major US airport. As a Vendor Partner Alliance Manager, you will play a pivotal role in bridging our clients’ needs with innovative solutions that enhance client and patient experiences. You will also lead relationship building, The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

This role will be responsible for supporting business-wide strategic alliance imperatives by creating, developing, and driving relationships that will optimize device connectivity solutions and streamline and enhance collaborative GTM activities.  You will be responsible for building relationships, driving vendor partner alliance opportunities, establishing a strategy and roadmap and collaborating across teams to help with roadmap execution. Your work will drive value and differentiation, contributing to our mission of improving lives through better health and energy management.

What You’ll Work On

Product Strategy Development:

• Develop new and existing and long-term technology strategies with device vendor partners to optimize GTM and technical relationships, marketing opportunities, and joint sales opportunities.

• Coordinate joint strategies and plans to promote and communicate value to global market and specific customer communities.

• Lead initiatives with Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, Sales, and Services organizations to conceive, design and execute high impact joint vendor alliance partner collaborations.

• Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering in conjunction with Alliance Subject Matter experts to implement joint technology collaboration and joint technical initiatives.

• Design and negotiate collaborative agreements to formalize joint initiatives and to create appropriate governance.

• Tracking and reporting Alliance results and metrics. 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field master’s a plus

• 8 or more years of experience in similar roles such as product management roles, preferably in software development or technology-driven organizations.

• Ability to travel up to 25%

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines.

• Proven track record of managing successful IT/software products from conception to launch and post-launch activities.

• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

• Strong presentation & communication skills, strategic planning, critical thinking and analysis of market conditions

• Ability to think strategically and translate business objectives into actionable product plans.

• Ability to deliver clear and compelling presentations to diverse audiences, including executives, customers, and technical teams.

• Experience with creating product documentation, technical specifications with engineering team, release notes, and training materials.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

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.

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