General Manager Electrophysiology UK & Ireland

Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) division is at the forefront of transforming cardiac care through cutting-edge technologies that diagnose and treat abnormal heart rhythms. With a fast-growing portfolio that includes advanced mapping systems, ablation catheters, and remote monitoring solutions, Abbott empowers clinicians to restore healthy heart function and improve patient outcomes.

We are recruiting for an experienced medical devices leader to join us as General Manager EP, UK & Ireland, responsible for developing strategic objectives for the region and translating into operating plans to grow sales and profit in line with agreed targets. The General Manger will build and lead a high performance organization to support delivery, ensuring operational integrity and compliance throughout.

What you will do:

• Leads a high performing cross functional team, providing support, feedback and advice to ensure strong results, develops team capabilities, rewarding employees appropriately and addresses performance management issues in a timely manner
• Drive sales process effectiveness, helping sales teams apply a consultative sales process enabling them to build value propositions that maximize the attractiveness of the Abbott offering and supports cross-divisional input 
• Develop deep knowledge of the market, emerging trends, opportunities and threats, including competitor offerings
• Supports strategic plan process, develop the vision for the team’s targets and direction
• Effective business forecasting, control and reporting, regularly reevaluating performance against forecasts and budgets and takes timely action to meet agreed targets
• Financial management, to include local P&L, controlling costs in line with annual expense operating plans
• Build relationships with external decision influencers, industry associations, regulatory bodies, local KOLs etc.
• Specifies organisational design and headcount requirements
• Operates in an ethical, disciplined and orderly way, encouraging coaching and responds productively to feedback

What you will need:

Education

• University Degree or equivalent in economics, business and/or medical field. Post graduate education preferred. 

Experience

• Management experience within the complex medical devices environment, cardiology strongly preferred with a proven track record of building high performing, varied (sales, clinical, education) teams
• Significant prior experience with people leadership roles in sales and marketing and with P&L responsibility 
• Comprehensive knowledge of the local healthcare market, pricing/contracting strategies and regulatory/reimbursement environment
• Proven track record of developing local commercial strategies and delivering above market growth and taking share from competitors
• Demonstrated success of being a change agent
• Demonstrated effectiveness to work across a matrix organization and build relationships and network with key internal and external stakeholders 

Attributes

• Outstanding leadership skills; agile, resilient and able to adapt depending on the needs of the business 
• Positive and proactive attitude

• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills
• Leads by example, excellent planning and prioritization 
• Strategic thinker
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

What we offer:

As you would expect from an innovative global health care company, we offer a competitive range of benefits to support you and your family, including excellent salaries, bonus potential, a fantastic defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance and a flexible benefits scheme.