JOB DESCRIPTION:

Bring your passion, ideas and purpose to life in a company that can truly help you achieve your full potential.

Join Abbott Rapid Diagnostics – Infectious Disease business, a world leader in point-of-care testing.

We are recruiting for a Commercial Activations Lead, who will play a pivotal role in strengthening how we engage with customers across the UK & Ireland, based from our Maidenhead office with up to 40% travel across the region. This is a unique opportunity to shape the way we bring our commercial strategy to life - ensuring our field teams are equipped, aligned and empowered to deliver meaningful, consistent and relevant engagements across every channel.

What you’ll do:

• As Commercial Activations Lead you will be responsible for ensuring excellence in execution of brand strategy and high‑impact commercial initiatives that maximise sales performance, strengthen market presence, and support long‑term growth.
• You will translate strategy into execution plans by shaping activation plans, coordinate cross‑functional inputs, and ensure key success factors are achieved.
• Act as a key connector between Sales, Marketing, Market Access and cross‑functional teams.
• Lead the end‑to‑end translation of brand, access and account strategies into locally relevant activation plans, ensuring flawless cross‑functional execution across Sales, Marketing, Medical and Market Access.
• Equip field teams with compliant, high‑quality materials and training.
• Drive effective sales team-led and digital engagement by leveraging Pitcher CLM insights, omnichannel analytics and customer feedback to optimise targeting and channel performance.
• Plan, coordinate and deliver exceptional execution of external events end-to-end, overseeing logistics, administration, vendor management, budget control and post-event maximisation.
• Manage compliance documentation and approval workflows, ensuring timely, audit‑ready governance through Veeva PromoMats and other Abbott-owned systems.

What you’ll need:

• Educated to degree level with some marketing experience.
• Professional marketing and/or business management qualifications preferred but not mandatory.
• Good understanding of the healthcare landscape.
• Excellent organisation, planning and project management ability.
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Dynamic, proactive, business and results-focused.
• Strong analytical and data management skills, with ability to make sound commercial decisions.
• Veeva PromoMats material approval system experience (ideal but not essential).
• Creative, resilient and agile individual with a can-do attitude that can respond to changing environments and use their initiative to deliver results.
• Team player capable of motivating and influencing others.

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

     

The base pay for this position is

N/A

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

     

JOB FAMILY:

Marketing Support

     

DIVISION:

ID Infectious Disease

        

LOCATION:

United Kingdom > Maidenhead : Abbott House

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 50 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Not Applicable