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.

**Director Competitive Intelligence & Foresight**

**Working at Abbott**

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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

+ Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

+ An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

+ Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-stude...) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree...) 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists

**_MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE_**

Position is responsible to oversee and provide leadership to an global strategic marketing operation responsible for identifying market opportunities, establishing direction to meet long-term goals and leading the team to achieve those goals.

**Role Description:**

+ The Director of Competitive Intelligence and Foresight will bring outside-in thinking to help drive GMEA Brand prioritization, vision setting and action-planning.

+ The role requires an experienced CI/futures practitioner who can gather and translate meaningful intelligence into the “so what” and “now what” for Abbott Brand-building.

+ We are looking for a skilled communicator and storyteller who is comfortable presenting/debating with Abbott Senior Leadership to drive new strategic thinking and actions that drive competitive advantage.

**Key Responsibilities & Deliverables:**

+ Build and manage a comprehensive competitive intelligence approach that delivers on-going timely competitor Brand insights; incl. early warning capabilities, business-implications, and recommended actions.

+ Lead competitor war-gaming program design and execution to better anticipate and counter the competition; include learnings and recommended actions to drive the GMEA business-planning process.

+ Build a new foresight capability to effectively horizon scan the environment and uncover emerging competitive and market signals; develop heat map of emerging signals, recommend Brand-building opportunities, and mitigate risks.

+ Develop and run quarterly GMEA deep-dive learning sessions on emerging impactful competitive trends.

+ Build/manage a GMEA competitive war-room.

+ Develop and execute necessary GMEA and Abbott CI training.

**Qualifications & Skills**

+ A related business or science degree.

+ Minimum 10 years’ experience in a related role.

+ Analytics acumen: ability to interrogate, analyze and interpret mass data from multiple sources, drawing meaningful conclusions and recommendations.

+ Strong communication and data storytelling skills; comfortable presenting to large senior groups.

The base pay for this position is $143,300.00 – $286,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com