Country Manager Heart Failure UK & Ireland

Solihull, West Midlands

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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

Benefits

competitive salaries and bonus potential
a superb defined contribution pension scheme
private healthcare
life assurance
a flexible benefits scheme

Salary and compensation

The base pay for this position is N/A. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Job family & location

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

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