Sr. Marketing Specialist

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.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Abbott Thailand location in the SH Stricture Heart. Why we exist our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

What You’ll Work On

• Plan and drive to work towards achieving company vision, objectives as well as divisional mission and strategies.
• Maximum efficiency and develop new business opportunities with existing and potential clients. Monitor market trends and competitor activity in assigned territory.
• Complete and submit timely administration tasks such as customer record keeping, rolling forecasts, monthly highlights, expenses, etc. in line with divisional standards. Manage samples, demo devices, promotional and phone expense budgets as per your plan spreadsheet to ensure expenses budget is contained.
• Maintain close relationships with key accounts and ensure their requirements are being met by the Company's products where possible. Represent Abbott in a professional manner that aligns with Company image, ensuring activities comply with legal and ethical standards.

Key Actions

• Continuously develops talents, skills and abilities.
• Encourages, supports and actively contributes to the team.
• Asks for feedback on strengths and weaknesses and uses the input to improve performance.
• Willingly shares expertise and experience with others; is considered a subject matter expert.
• Offers culturally-appropriate, frequent and constructive feedback to peers and leaders.
• Improves efficiencies and/or reduces costs.

Set Vision and Strategy

• Learns new or changing job processes, tasks and/or trends, and applies them to the work as appropriate.
• Uses an understanding of the larger business context to more effectively complete work.
• Creates role-appropriate plans, action steps, and timetables to support the strategy, goals and assignments.
• Prioritizes own work to focus on customer and department needs, outcomes and objectives.

Deliver Results

• Delivers on expectations and meets commitments; holds self-accountable for results.
• Acknowledges and learns from mistakes.
• Takes thoughtful action, appropriately balancing speed and risk.
• Persists and applies extra effort to overcome work barriers, issues and obstacles.
• Meets quality and/or compliance standards.
• Works with a sense of urgency to deliver results within deadlines.

Anticipate

• Proactively identifies work issues/obstacles, communicates them to leaders/peers and creates appropriate contingency plans.
• Effectively responds to internal or external change.
• Treats change as an opportunity to learn and develop.
• Uses experience, data, and/or internal/external customer input to create better work solutions.
• Gains support for ideas, proposals and/or projects by influencing leaders and peers.

Innovation

• Identifies and implements process/product improvements that benefit the company and customers.
• Tactfully challenges assumptions and traditional ways of doing things.
• Thoroughly analyzes problems to identify causes and not just symptoms.
• Implements new, innovative solutions or processes.
• Seeks and combines diverse opinions and views to create better ideas and solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 2 to 4 years of relevant experience
• Understanding Healthcare business model.
• Experience in medical device or relevant business at least 1 year.
• Relevant product knowledge.
• Capable computer skills for Abbott field reporting data system and necessary correspondence and spreadsheets.
• Ability to put together a territory business plan.
• Numerical ability.
• Teamwork / Collaboration, Adaptability.
• Customer Focus.
• Planning and Organising.
• Excellent spoken and written of English and local language.