Commercial Activation Lead

<p style="text-align:inherit">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><h2><b>JOB DESCRIPTION:</b></h2><p><b>Bring your passion, ideas and purpose to life in a company that can truly help you achieve your full potential.</b></p><p>Join Abbott Rapid Diagnostics – Infectious Disease business, a world leader in point-of-care testing.</p><p></p><p>We are recruiting for a<span> <b>Commercial Activations Lead</b>, who will </span>play a pivotal role in strengthening how we engage with customers across the UK &amp; Ireland, based from our Maidenhead office with c.25% travel across the region. This is a unique opportunity to shape the way we bring our commercial strategy to life - ensuring our field teams are equipped, aligned and empowered to deliver meaningful, consistent and relevant engagements across every channel.</p><p></p><p><u>What you’ll do:</u></p><ul><li><span>As Commercial Activations Lead you will be responsible for ensuring excellence in execution of brand strategy and high‑impact commercial initiatives that maximise sales performance, strengthen market presence, and support long‑term growth. </span></li><li><span>You will translate strategy into execution plans by shaping activation plans, coordinate cross‑functional inputs, and ensure key success factors are achieved. </span></li><li><span>Act as a key connector between Sales, Marketing, Market Access and cross‑functional teams.</span></li><li>Lead the end‑to‑end translation of brand, access and account strategies into locally relevant activation plans, ensuring flawless cross‑functional execution across Sales, Marketing, Medical and Market Access.</li><li>Equip field teams with compliant, high‑quality materials and training.</li><li>Drive effective sales team-led and digital engagement by leveraging Pitcher CLM insights, omnichannel analytics and customer feedback to optimise targeting and channel performance.</li><li>Plan, coordinate and deliver exceptional execution of external events end-to-end, overseeing logistics, administration, vendor management, budget control and post-event maximisation.</li><li>Manage compliance documentation and approval workflows, ensuring timely, audit‑ready governance through Veeva PromoMats and other Abbott-owned systems.</li></ul><p></p><p><u>What you’ll need:</u></p><ul><li>Educated to degree level with some marketing experience.</li><li>Professional marketing and/or business management qualifications preferred but not mandatory.</li><li>Good understanding of the healthcare landscape.</li><li>Excellent organisation, planning and project management ability.</li><li>Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.</li><li>Dynamic, proactive, business and results-focused.</li><li>Strong analytical and data management skills, with ability to make sound commercial decisions.</li><li>Veeva PromoMats material approval system experience (ideal but not essential).</li><li>Creative, resilient and agile individual with a can-do attitude that can respond to changing environments and use their initiative to deliver results.</li><li>Team player capable of motivating and influencing others.</li></ul><p></p><p>As you’d expect from an innovative global health care company, we offer a competitive range of benefits to support you and your family, including excellent salaries, defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance and a flexible benefits scheme.</p><p style="text-align:inherit">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p><b>The base pay for this position is </b></p>N/A<p style="text-align:left"><span>In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.</span></p><p style="text-align:inherit">     </p><h2><b>JOB FAMILY:</b></h2>Marketing Support<p style="text-align:inherit">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><h2><b>DIVISION:</b></h2>ID Infectious Disease<p style="text-align:inherit">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h2><b>LOCATION:</b></h2>United Kingdom &gt; Maidenhead : Abbott House<p style="text-align:inherit">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><h2><b>ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:</b></h2><p style="text-align:inherit">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><h2><b>WORK SHIFT:</b></h2>Standard<p style="text-align:inherit">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><h2><b>TRAVEL:</b></h2>Yes, 25 % of the Time<p style="text-align:inherit">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><h2><b>MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:</b></h2>Not Applicable<p style="text-align:inherit">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><h2><b>SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:</b></h2>Not Applicable<p style="text-align:inherit">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:inherit">     </p><p style="text-align:inherit">     </p>