Abbott · 1 month ago
Head of Marketing, North America - Abbott Diabetes Care
United States - California - Alameda
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$217K/yr - $433K/yr
12+ years expAbbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. The Head of Marketing for North America will provide executive marketing leadership across multiple markets, ensuring strategic marketing execution aligns with global business priorities while driving local market impact.
BiotechnologyEmergency MedicineGeneticsHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedicalMedical DeviceNutritionPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Provides executive marketing leadership across multiple markets, ensuring strategic marketing execution aligns with global business priorities while driving local market impact
Leads transformation efforts, capability development, and regional marketing innovation
Define and execute the area-wide marketing vision, ensuring integration with global business strategy
Oversee multiple regional marketing teams, ensuring alignment, collaboration, and best practice execution across affiliates
Lead regional marketing investment strategies, ensuring budgets are optimized for long-term growth
Influence business strategy at the regional level, integrating marketing as a key driver of commercial success
Ensure consistency in brand and marketing execution across affiliates, balancing standardization with market-specific flexibility
Drive transformation initiatives, ensuring the area’s marketing function is continuously innovating and evolving
Develop leadership talent within the marketing organization, ensuring teams are future-ready
Champion digital marketing excellence, ensuring marketing strategies leverage technology and data-driven insights
Ensure marketing compliance and risk mitigation at the regional level
Represent the area in global marketing discussions, shaping the direction of global marketing initiatives
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Life Sciences, or a related field
Minimum 12 years of progressive marketing leadership experience, ideally within the life sciences, healthcare, or biopharma sectors
Proven success leading regional or multi-country marketing teams at a senior level with a track record of driving growth and innovation
Demonstrated experience leading large-scale marketing transformations, including digital innovation and organizational capability building
Deep understanding of the North American healthcare ecosystem, including regulatory, payer, and provider dynamics
Strong analytical, strategic, and executional capabilities
Exceptional communication, influence, and leadership skills
Ability to align global strategy with local market execution
Metrics-driven mindset with expertise in marketing analytics and performance optimization
Preferred
Advanced degree (MBA, MPH, or similar)
Company
Abbott
Abbott is a healthcare company that produces diagnostic kits, medical devices, nutritional products, and branded generic medicines.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.79M2011-03-15Post Ipo Debt· $0.1M
2009-03-16Post Ipo Debt· $6.69M
1980-12-12IPO
Leadership Team
Robert Ford
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mike Peterson
Senior Vice President
Recent News
2026-01-07
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