Commercial Manager Cardiac Rhythm Management (Central & North UK)
Bring your passion, ideas and purpose to life in a company that can truly help you achieve your full potential.
We have a fantastic opportunity to join our Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) business, where as a global leader, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats.
The Opportunity
We are recruiting for a Commercial Manager who will act as a strategic commercial partner to the CRM Division of Abbott Medical UK, providing commercial leadership, guidance, and functional expertise to drive sustainable growth and deliver business objectives.
This is a field-based role with 60%-70% of travelling anticipated.
As a Commercial Manager you will support the design, development, implementation, and execution of commercial strategies, processes, and value-based commercial models that strengthen Abbott Medical's market position and contribute to the achievement of quarterly and annual sales targets.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and execute commercial strategies that drive growth and maximise opportunities within the NHS and healthcare market.
- Identify market trends, customer needs and business opportunities through data analysis, market intelligence and stakeholder engagement.
- Lead tender, pricing and contract strategies, ensuring competitive, compliant and value-driven commercial solutions.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with NHS procurement teams, ICSs, framework managers and key decision-makers.
- Act as a trusted commercial advisor, supporting value-based partnerships and influencing commercial outcomes.
- Drive contract performance, commercial excellence and continuous process improvement across the business.
- Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Finance and Commercial Operations to deliver strategic objectives and maximise market share.
- Provide leadership, coaching and guidance on commercial negotiations, stakeholder management and tender strategy.
- Represent Abbott Medical as a senior commercial leader, building long-term partnerships and strengthening market position.
Required qualifications/Profile
- A business degree, or equivalent is essential.
- Experience in a sales or commercial role dealing with UK Tenders within the UK Healthcare Market is desirable.
- Ability to translate data into actionable insight and drive decision-making.
- Demonstrated ability to build consultative, collaborative relationships with managers, co-workers and customer stakeholders at all levels.
- Commercial acumen including pricing, contracting, and value-based selling
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Excellent analysis and decision making skills
- Experience of UK commercial and contract law to assess and challenge constantly changing market place.
- Demonstrate the authority, confidence and intelligence required to deal directly with each customer group on general matters relating to Tenders & Quotes.
- Excellent general computer skills, especially Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word
This is a fantastic opportunity to become a valued member of a highly skilled Commercial team in an innovative medical device business of Abbott.
As you’d expect from an innovative global health care company, we offer a competitive range of benefits including excellent salaries, a class-leading defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance and a flexible benefits scheme.
Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. Joining us, you can shape your career as you shape the future of healthcare.
With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.