As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, at Abbott we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

We are recruiting for a newly created role of Partnerships Manager for our Cardiac Rhythm Management business, to build and maintain a strategic partnership with NHS Supply Chain, including stakeholders within SRM, NHSE and Specialised Commissioning and to facilitate operational ways of working between multiple Abbott stakeholders and NHSSC.

What you’ll do:

• Influence a broad network of stakeholders, drive improved contract performance through access to data.
• Design and lead the commercial strategy for NHSSC and provide guidance to the field team.
• Connect cross divisionally to collect valuable insights and formulate a cohesive strategy for enhancing customer engagement.

• Design and organise the cadence of engagement between Abbott CRM and NHSSC, to include category meetings, education, operational and strategic.
• Establish trust-based, collaborative, sustainable relationships with both Abbott internal stakeholders and external customer stakeholders.
• Work alongside marketing to ensure all future pipeline products have a commercial strategy and listing plan with NHSSC, including pricing and training.
• Develop ways of working, tools and processes to support the commercial strategy with NHSSC.
• Where appropriate be a conduit between stakeholders on specific contracts.
• Maintain personal knowledge of the UK Healthcare Market by monitoring both industry and NHS developments that may be pertinent to the UK Market.
• Design and manage projects that will further our relationship with NHSSC based on uncovering specific needs of the customer.

What you’ll need:

• A business degree, or equivalent experience.
• Ideally a proven track record in National Accounts/Strategic Accounts, building partnerships, with solid commercial acumen.
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships with managers, co-workers and customer stakeholders at all levels.
• Prior commercial experience, within complex devices ideal but not mandatory.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent analysis and decision-making skills.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.

At Abbott, we are committed to your ongoing development and progression and we will ensure you receive the very best training and support to enable your success. As you’d expect from a global healthcare company, we offer a phenomenal range of benefits to support you and your family. These include competitive salaries and bonus potential, a superb defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance and a flexible benefits scheme.