Country Manager Heart Failure UK & Ireland

A fantastic opportunity to join Abbotts 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 youll 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 youll 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 youd expect from a global healthcare company we offera fantastic range of benefits to support you and your family including competitive salaries and bonuspotential 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

In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.