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Abbott

Makes heart devices, glucose sensors and lab tests

Global Product Leader - Aliniq Sample Management, Indexor

Product ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLake Forest, IL, USA$149.3k - $298.7k

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science, Healthcare Informatics, Business, or a related field is required.
  • At least 10 years of product management, product strategy, or portfolio management experience is required.
  • Proven success leading global software, healthcare IT, diagnostics, laboratory informatics, or digital health product portfolios is required.
  • The role requires the ability to influence senior executives and lead complex cross-functional initiatives.
  • Strong commercial acumen, including experience developing business cases, growth strategies, and investment plans, is required.
  • Experience launching and scaling enterprise software or healthcare technology solutions globally is required.

Responsibilities

  • Define and communicate the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the AlinIQ Sample Management portfolio aligned with corporate growth objectives.
  • Position AlinIQ Sample Management as a strategic component within Abbott's broader Digital Health and Laboratory Informatics ecosystem.
  • Identify emerging market opportunities, customer needs, industry trends, and competitive dynamics in laboratory automation, specimen management, and workflow optimization.
  • Develop business cases and prioritize investments based on customer value, operational impact, market potential, strategic fit, and financial return.
  • Lead product portfolio planning, lifecycle management, platform expansion, and innovation initiatives.
  • Evaluate strategic partnerships, technology integrations, and ecosystem opportunities that enhance product differentiation and customer value.
  • Partner with R&D, software engineering, operations, quality, regulatory, and commercial organizations to deliver products and enhancements on time and within budget.
  • Translate laboratory, biobank, pathology, and healthcare customer needs into product requirements and prioritized development roadmaps.
  • Champion product management practices including agile development, user-centered design, customer validation, and continuous improvement.
  • Drive innovation in specimen tracking, digital chain of custody, sample inventory management, storage optimization, retrieval workflows, and laboratory automation.
  • Define and monitor key performance indicators focused on customer adoption, operational efficiency, utilization, retention, and business outcomes.
  • Support product launches and commercialization in partnership with global marketing and commercial teams.
  • Serve as the voice of the customer by developing an understanding of laboratory specimen management challenges and operational workflows.
  • Engage with laboratory directors, pathologists, biobank leaders, operations managers, healthcare systems, and industry stakeholders to validate needs and future solutions.
  • Partner with marketing to drive customer advisory boards, market research initiatives, and competitive assessments.
  • Represent Abbott at industry conferences, customer engagements, and thought leadership forums focused on laboratory operations and informatics.
  • Identify emerging trends in laboratory consolidation, automation, digital transformation, precision medicine, and biorepository management.
  • Drive the vision and strategy for an integrated sample management ecosystem connecting automation systems, laboratory information systems, laboratory middleware, analyzers, and enterprise healthcare platforms.
  • Advance digital specimen management capabilities across the sample lifecycle, from accessioning through storage, retrieval, retention, and disposal.
  • Lead innovation in intelligent automation, workflow orchestration, predictive sample management, and analytics-driven operational insights.
  • Collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver scalable, secure, and interoperable solutions.
  • Ensure alignment with industry standards and best practices related to specimen integrity, traceability, compliance, and quality management.
  • Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and customer-centricity.
  • Influence and align cross-functional global teams to achieve shared objectives and strategic priorities.
  • Mentor product management talent and strengthen organizational product leadership capabilities.
  • Promote a high-performance culture focused on execution excellence, continuous learning, and customer outcomes.
  • Develop and execute product portfolio business plans, forecasts, investment strategies, and performance measures.
  • Manage product investment priorities and support annual strategic planning processes.
  • Monitor business performance, customer adoption, market growth, portfolio profitability, and return on investment.
  • Present recommendations, growth opportunities, and progress updates to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
  • Support strategic decisions regarding platform expansion, partnership opportunities, acquisitions, and emerging technologies.

Desired Qualifications

  • An advanced degree (MBA, MS, PhD, or equivalent) is preferred.
  • Experience in laboratory diagnostics, healthcare informatics, middleware, LIS, or enterprise healthcare systems is preferred.
  • Expertise in SaaS platforms, cloud technologies, digital ecosystems, and platform product management is preferred.
  • Knowledge of AI/ML-enabled healthcare solutions and workflow automation technologies is preferred.
  • Experience working with global regulatory environments and healthcare interoperability standards is preferred.
  • A strong understanding of healthcare data integration, analytics, and cybersecurity principles is preferred.
  • Knowledge of end-to-end laboratory workflows, including specimen tracking, test ordering, workflow orchestration, technical validation, clinical validation, quality management, reporting, and operational analytics, is preferred.
  • Knowledge of laboratory automation solutions, intelligent rules engines, workflow optimization, and AI-driven decision support is preferred.
  • Knowledge of technical and semantic interoperability among analyzers, automation systems, laboratory information systems, middleware, electronic health records, and enterprise healthcare platforms is preferred.
  • Knowledge of healthcare integration standards, including HL7, FHIR, IHE, and API-based architectures, is preferred.
  • Experience in end-to-end specimen lifecycle management, including accessioning, sample tracking, chain of custody, storage, retrieval, retention, archival, and disposal, is preferred.
  • Experience in laboratory inventory management, specimen logistics, storage optimization, and workflow orchestration is preferred.
  • Experience in sample integrity management, compliance workflows, quality assurance, auditability, and operational governance is preferred.
  • Experience in biobank, pathology archive, research repository, and clinical laboratory sample management practices is preferred.

About the Company

Abbott

Makes heart devices, glucose sensors and lab tests

Abbott makes medical devices, diagnostic tests, nutrition products and branded generic drugs for hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies and patients. Its best-known product is the FreeStyle Libre, a coin-sized sensor worn on the upper arm that tracks blood sugar around the clock without routine finger pricks. Its other lines run from heart valves, pacemakers and brain stimulators to lab analyzers, rapid tests and mail-in colon cancer screening kits, and Abbott earns money by selling these products to health systems, labs, retailers and consumers. The company was founded in 1888 by Chicago physician Wallace Abbott and is based in Abbott Park, Illinois.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Abbott Park, IL
Founded
1888

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