JOB DESCRIPTION:
Country Manager – Abbott Diabetes Care (Medical Devices)
About the Role
Abbott is looking for a strategic and inspiring Country Manager to lead our Diabetes Care division in Norway. In this key leadership role, you will translate divisional strategy into a localized business model, ensuring both short-term execution and long-term growth. You will lead a high-performing team, drive operational excellence, and represent Abbott with key external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership and Execution
- Translate global strategy into a localized, actionable business plan for the Diabetes Care division.
- Inspire and engage the team to take ownership and deliver results.
- Define key performance indicators, manage resources, and adjust plans as needed.
- Conduct strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analyses and apply business models to define sales direction and growth.
- Ensure alignment of local plans with global strategy.
- Lead forecasting, budgeting, and business reporting processes.
Operational Excellence
- Monitor performance against forecasts and budgets, taking timely corrective actions.
- Ensure accurate and timely business reporting.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders, including government bodies and regulatory agencies.
People Leadership
- Set clear goals and expectations for teams and individuals.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and high performance.
- Recruit, develop, and retain top talent.
- Lead long-term organizational and talent planning.
- Ensure compliance with Abbott’s reporting and field event return requirements.
- Recognize and reward performance in line with company policies.
Qualifications and Experience
- Master’s degree in Business, Commerce, or a related field (preferred).
- Minimum ten years of experience in the medical device industry, with at least five years in senior leadership roles.
- Proven success in commercial operations, including sales, marketing, and reimbursement models.
- Strong experience in managing profit and loss, financial oversight, compliance, and cross-functional leadership.
- Ability to lead in a complex, matrixed, and multicultural environment.
- Excellent coaching, communication, and self-management skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Office tools
- Fluent in Norwegian and English.
- Strong knowledge of the Norwegian healthcare market and culture.
- Excellent sales and negotiation skills.
The base pay for this position is
N/AIn specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Sales Support & Administration
DIVISION:
ADC Diabetes Care
LOCATION:
Norway > Fornebu : Rolfsbuktveien 4
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Yes, 50 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Not Applicable