Global Product Leader, Clinical Decision Support

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Job description

Working at Abbott At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Global Product Leader to drive the strategy, innovation, and growth of the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) portfolio.

As healthcare systems face increasing clinical complexity, workforce shortages, care variability, and demands for improved outcomes, Clinical Decision Support has become a critical enabler of evidence-based, efficient, and personalized healthcare delivery.

This highly visible leadership role will define the future of intelligent healthcare decision support by connecting diagnostics, laboratory informatics, clinical workflows, healthcare data, artificial intelligence, and enterprise healthcare ecosystems.

You will work closely with customers, commercial teams, R&D, medical affairs, clinical experts, and executive leadership to deliver innovative solutions that improve clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, care quality, and patient experience.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

Product Strategy & Vision

• Define and communicate the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the AlinIQ Clinical Decision Support portfolio aligned with corporate growth objectives.

• Position AlinIQ CDS within Abbott’s broader Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Healthcare Informatics ecosystem.

• Identify emerging market opportunities, customer needs, regulatory requirements, industry trends, and competitive dynamics.

• Develop business cases and prioritize investments based on clinical value, customer outcomes, market potential, strategic fit, and financial return.

• Lead product portfolio planning, lifecycle management, platform expansion, and innovation initiatives.

• Evaluate partnerships, clinical content providers, AI capabilities, healthcare integrations, and ecosystem opportunities.

Product Development & Execution

• Partner with R&D, software engineering, medical affairs, clinical affairs, quality, regulatory, data science, and commercial teams to deliver innovative solutions.

• Translate provider, laboratory, payer, and health system needs into product requirements and development roadmaps.

• Champion agile development, user-centered design, evidence-based validation, and continuous improvement.

• Drive innovation in clinical rules engines, intelligent workflows, predictive analytics, population health insights, personalized recommendations, and AI-assisted decision support.

• Define and monitor KPIs related to adoption, engagement, efficiency, outcomes, and business performance.

• Support product launches and commercialization efforts globally.

Customer & Market Leadership

• Serve as the voice of the customer and develop deep understanding of clinical workflows, diagnostic pathways, and healthcare decision-making.

• Engage physicians, laboratorians, care teams, executives, population health leaders, and industry stakeholders to validate future solutions.

• Lead customer advisory boards, clinical councils, market research initiatives, and competitive assessments.

• Represent Abbott at conferences, customer engagements, and thought leadership forums.

• Identify trends in value-based care, clinical intelligence, virtual care, predictive healthcare, personalized medicine, and AI-driven workflows.

Clinical Decision Support Ecosystem Leadership

• Drive vision and strategy for an integrated CDS ecosystem connecting diagnostics, analytics, EHR/EMR systems, clinical workflows, care management, and enterprise platforms.

• Advance intelligent decision support capabilities across the patient journey.

• Lead innovation in real-time clinical intelligence, predictive modeling, workflow orchestration, evidence-based recommendations, and generative AI-enabled insights.

• Collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver scalable, secure, explainable, and interoperable solutions.

• Ensure alignment with healthcare regulations, standards, governance requirements, and best practices.

• Establish frameworks for clinical content management, recommendation transparency, and ongoing evidence updates.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and customer-centricity.

• Influence and align global cross-functional teams.

• Mentor product management talent and build organizational product leadership capabilities.

• Promote execution excellence, continuous learning, and customer outcomes.

Business & Financial Management

• Develop and execute portfolio business plans, forecasts, investment strategies, and performance measures.

• Manage investment priorities and support annual strategic planning processes.

• Monitor adoption, utilization, market growth, profitability, and ROI.

• Present recommendations and growth opportunities to senior leadership.

• Support strategic decisions related to platform expansion, partnerships, acquisitions, AI capabilities, and emerging technologies.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Healthcare Informatics, Life Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Computer Science, Engineering, Public Health, or a related field.

• 10+ years of experience in product management, product strategy, or portfolio management within healthcare software, clinical informatics, digital health, diagnostics, or healthcare IT.

• Proven success leading global product portfolios and delivering enterprise healthcare technology solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and lead complex cross-functional initiatives.

• Strong commercial and business acumen, including development of growth strategies, business cases, and investment plans.

• Experience launching and scaling global software, informatics, or digital health solutions.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in clinical decision support, healthcare informatics, diagnostics, population health, or enterprise healthcare platforms.

• Expertise in SaaS, cloud-based platforms, digital ecosystems, and platform product management.

• Knowledge of AI/ML-enabled healthcare solutions, clinical analytics, predictive insights, and workflow automation.

• Familiarity with global healthcare regulations, interoperability standards, and healthcare data exchange.

• Experience with healthcare integrations and standards including HL7, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, CDS Hooks, APIs, EHR/EMR, LIS, and healthcare ecosystems.

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The base pay for this position is $129,300.00 – $258,700.00

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

Job family Product Management

Divisione CRLB Core Lab

Sede di lavoro United States > Lake Forest : CP01

Sedi di lavoro ulteriori

Turni Standard

Viaggiare Not specified

Controllo medico No

Attività lavorative significative Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous walking for prolonged periods (more than 2 hours at a time in an 8 hour day)

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