Director Commercial Excellence
Abbott
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Karachi
Contract type: Full time

About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
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 Will Have Access To
Director- Commercial Excellence
Abbott Established Pharmaceutical Division is looking for a Director- Commercial Excellence to be based in Pakistan.
The Director- Commercial Excellence will be responsible for leading commercial business initiatives in the areas of sales support, business policy, processes and practices designed to increase sales productivity and drive efficiencies to support affiliate revenue growth. Primary areas of responsibility include business analytics, standardizing practices, optimizing sales incentive plans, and leveraging existing sales tools to support sales velocity planning. Further responsibilities include sales force trainings, commercial compliance, field communications and sales meeting planning. In addition, this position serves a lead for Affiliate Commercial EHS.
Responsible to supervise day-to-day activities of the sales team so that the organization's sales force is effectively supported, and all sales transactions are processed efficiently, accurately and economically.
What You'll Do-
Strategic Planning
Preferably a Science Graduate. Masters degree and/or complimenting business related degree would be an added advantage.
Knowledge & Experience
Key Leadership Competencies:
Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/abbott-/, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews.
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
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 Will Have Access To
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- 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.
Director- Commercial Excellence
Abbott Established Pharmaceutical Division is looking for a Director- Commercial Excellence to be based in Pakistan.
The Director- Commercial Excellence will be responsible for leading commercial business initiatives in the areas of sales support, business policy, processes and practices designed to increase sales productivity and drive efficiencies to support affiliate revenue growth. Primary areas of responsibility include business analytics, standardizing practices, optimizing sales incentive plans, and leveraging existing sales tools to support sales velocity planning. Further responsibilities include sales force trainings, commercial compliance, field communications and sales meeting planning. In addition, this position serves a lead for Affiliate Commercial EHS.
Responsible to supervise day-to-day activities of the sales team so that the organization's sales force is effectively supported, and all sales transactions are processed efficiently, accurately and economically.
What You'll Do-
Strategic Planning
- Optimizing sales and marketing processes to drive revenue growth and profitability. They develop and implement strategies to enhance sales effectiveness
- Track key performance indicators (KPIs) and provide regular reports on commercial performance.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance commercial processes and performance.
- Works closely with other functional areas (e.g., Marketing, Finance, HR, Operations) to collaborate and gain alignment in the execution of initiatives.
- Participate as a team member/leader in all assigned corporate and divisional initiatives.
- Leads Field Services and Sales Training teams
- Lead Recourse Allocation process
- Lead systems/process standardization, integration, training and implementation.
- Responsible for sales force personnel trainings of new hires and existing field personnel on product, disease and selling skills.
- Supports monthly, quarterly and annual reporting process in alignment with the financial planning cycle.
- Leads commercial compliance initiatives.
- Drives sales force effectiveness by identifying and recommending initiatives to improve the efficiency of the function. Leads implementation of approved initiatives.
- Responsible for Field Force Communications to ensure consistent messaging.
- Collaborate with regional commercial team to obtain and share commercially based “Best Practices”.
- Lead targeting strategy and implementation
- Provide analysis of overall historical sales trends for key product groups to assist in long range strategic sales and organizational planning.
- Provide Sales Directors and Managers with metrics and processes to identify team shortfalls and institute measures to improve performance.
- Reports and tracks performance against plan for all aspects of the sales group across a variety of key performance metrics. Reports may require combining data from several systems into a comprehensive set of reports. Implements metrics to generate data and tracking for decision making.
- Provide analysis and recommendations for standard business system applications to be used by the management to provide ready access to sales and customer data.
- Maintains responsibility for building and implementing incentive compensation and recognition programs, provides oversight and leadership
- Continually look to improve sales processes, people, and sales coverage to support growth.
- Oversees the development of goals and implementation of the annual process for sales team.
- Lead Commercial EHS initiatives for all the divisions of the affiliate
- Provide overall vision and direction for Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health functions for commercial employees through the establishment of sound policies and strategies.
- Develop strategic goals and objectives to support continuous improvement in EHS.
- Establish communication strategies and channels to effectively deploy EHS best practices initiatives company-wide.
- Develop, compile and report appropriate metrics to track the impact of EHS programs company-wide.
- Provide information and direction to management in identifying opportunities, problems and components of potential threat to our business.
- Serve as a business partner and consultant to reduce risk and maximize productivity. Advise and guide senior leadership on critical EHS issues.
- Cultivate an environment where others value and support a strong EHS culture promoting employee well-being and creating a zero-incident workplace.
- Responsibilities for Commercial EHS activities include:
- Comply with the requirements of Global Commercial EHS Tracker
- Develop and implement Commercial EHS Strategic Plan for the Affiliate
- Develop relevant Commercial EHS policies, procedures, written programs, orientation programs, and training programs.
- Maintain a Commercial EHS data base for all activities, documents and training/orientation programs, injuries and PAPMM.
Preferably a Science Graduate. Masters degree and/or complimenting business related degree would be an added advantage.
Knowledge & Experience
- Minimum of 15-18 year of experience in sales, marketing and/or Commercial Excellence roles, with past at least 5 years at a senior/leadership role.
- Insight into internal and external customers
Key Leadership Competencies:
- Sets Vision and Strategy
- Builds Organization and Inspires People
- Knows the Business
- Drives for Results
- Makes Difficult Decisions
- Encourages Open Environment and Knowledge Sharing
- Planning and Organization
- Analytical Skills
- Coaching and People Development
- Negotiation / Influence
- Strategic Thinking and Vision
- Project Management
Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/abbott-/, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews.
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