Head of Consumer Marketing - Abbott Diabetes Care

Alameda, CA (Unknown)

$197K/yr – $395K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 7 days ago

Job Summary

Own and lead a consumer marketing organization to drive acquisitions, engagement, and market share while shaping strategy, budget, and cross-functional collaboration across digital, traditional, and CRM channels.

  • Own the development and execution of multi-channel marketing strategies.
  • Lead a diverse team and manage the marketing budget to maximize ROI.
  • Collaborate across functions to align on business goals and stakeholder expectations.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of 2 direct and 25 indirect reports to execute business strategies and plans to ensure delivery of the brands Sales, Margin and Market Share commitments.
  • Develop and execute comprehensive consumer marketing strategies to drive customer acquisition, retention, and engagement.
  • Build and support a top tier team, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the successful implementation of marketing plans and a healthy, happy, efficient, and effective team.
  • Lead market research to understand consumer trends, insights, challenges, and opportunities, and translate them into actionable marketing strategies.
  • Lead our consumer marketing investment strategy - how we think about and execute on digital marketing, social media, email marketing, content marketing, traditional advertising and other channels.
  • Implement advanced audience segmentation techniques to target specific customer cohorts, delivering highly relevant and personalized content across email, social, and digital channels.
  • FreeStyle Libre CRM lead inclusive of all consumer marketing activations: email, website, app, and roadmap development and execution.
  • Lead the development of consumer competitive strategy to address current and future competitors.
  • Manage marketing team budget, allocate resources effectively, and ensure cost-effective marketing campaigns.
  • Monitor and analyze marketing campaign performance, track KPIs, and make data-driven decisions to optimize marketing efforts and maximize ROI.

Requirements

  • BS or BA required; MBA strongly preferred due to the business complexity and P&L responsibility of the position.
  • At least 10 years of progressively responsible brand management experience in healthcare professional and/or consumer packaged goods marketing, ideally including new products marketing.
  • Preferably, would also possess experience in a sales leadership role.
  • Proven ability to develop and execute complex strategic business plans, proven effectiveness in financial and budget management.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate with a multitude of functions, outstanding communication, and presentation skills.
  • Ability to motivate, focus, and lead a diverse group of people; demonstrated effectiveness at developing talent throughout organizational levels.
  • Strong analytical ability and understanding.
  • Must be experienced in stakeholder management in a complex organizational structure, a strong influencer and possess negotiating skills.
  • Must possess experiences in leading teams, both with direct staff and indirect teams.

Preferred

  • MBA strongly preferred

Benefits

  • Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
  • An excellent retirement savings plan with 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 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
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Founded in 1940
North Chicago, Illinois, USA
161K employees (6,303 in marketing)
71% recommend to a friend
81% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$197K/yr – $395K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$20B
Last Raise
$20B
Post IPO Debt, 7 days ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2026
    Post IPO Debt • $20B
  • Mar 2011
    Post IPO Debt • $100K
  • Mar 2009
    Post IPO Debt • $6.7M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.1M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$98.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41.6%
Direct
41.4%
Referral
14%
Social
0.9%
Paid
2.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~160.9K

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