Director, Sales Training & Enablement

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.JOB DESCRIPTION:MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE

• This role will be responsible for leading sales force effectiveness and developing high-impact, scalable training programs that will position our sales organization to grow revenue, win market share, and achieve margin goals. The role will support our Vascular US Commercial organization. This is an impactful, dynamic, and high visibility position that will materially impact the business. This position reports to the DVP US Commercial, Strategy & Operations.

• Lead the creation and implementation of value-based sales training programs to support commercial readiness for product launches


• Convert business and organizational objectives into scalable training programs for all levels of the sales organization including new hire and leader/manager training to accelerate time to revenue-generation


• Establish and promote best-in-class techniques to deliver training programs that are engaging, actionable, sticky, scalable, and results driven


• Team player than can partner closely with Sales leaders to ensure buy-in and input into all curriculum, including identification of candidates for selective training programs


• Select and assess external vendors who can assist with deploying high quality programs and interactive online/ virtual tools and methods


• Collaborate with Marketing and Education to ensure integration with product / technical training


• Collaborate with customers to ensure trainings reflect customer expectations and involve them where appropriate


• Align with HR to evaluate competency levels and create training strategy to address critical gaps


• Develop key performance indicators for sales training programs, track effectiveness, and demonstrate strong financial ROI


• Present program strategy, metrics, and impact to executive leadership


• Provide insights and recommendations to drive strategic decisions and investments in sales training

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