Diretoria de Marketing Cone Sul - Divisão Nutricional (ANI) - São Paulo/SP

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About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

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

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

• Benefits such as Medical and Dental Assistance, Life Insurance, Private Pension Plan, Medication Subsidy, Discount on Abbott stock purchases, among others.

• 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.

• We offer flexible work policies that allow a healthy balance between personal and professional life

• We invest in the development of our employees through training and  growth opportunities

• We foster an environment where every voice is heard and valued

The Opportunity

This position works out of our São Paulo, Michigan site location, in the Nutrition business. Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow, to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, Glucerna® – to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life. 

As the Marketing Director South Cone, you will be responsible for defining and driving the long-term Nutritional strategy across markets, ensuring sustainable growth and competitiveness.

You will represent cluster needs and ensure alignment between regional strategies and local market realities. The role contributes strategic input into the development of regional campaigns, ensuring they address key business opportunities within the Cluster. Is accountable for leading the innovation agenda for the portfolio, identifying and prioritizing growth opportunities, and supporting the development of the pipeline in alignment with long-term category objectives.

Additionally, this role defines and leads the Cluster learning agenda, identifying research needs and generating insights to inform strategic decisions. The role is primarily strategic in nature and does not have responsibility for local execution or direct ownership of resources.

What You’ll Do

• Category Strategy & Long-Term Planning: Define and drive the long-term strategy for the Nutritional portfolio across the Cluster, ensuring alignment with regional priorities and market opportunities.  Provide yearly guidance to the countries to build local brand plans.

• Regional Interface & Alignment: Act as the main liaison with the LATAM regional team, ensuring cluster perspectives are incorporated into regional plans and initiatives.  Provide structured input into regional campaign development, ensuring relevance and applicability for Cluster markets.

• Innovation & Pipeline Development: Lead the innovation agenda for the category, identifying opportunities and supporting prioritization and go-to-market strategy definition.  Support the execution of pipeline launches, leveraging cluster strategies when available. Ensure full coordination with Regional, and cross-functional teams (NPI, Supply, Demand, Medical, Regulatory, Sales, Trade) to guarantee readiness, alignment, and flawless readiness.

• Learning Agenda & Insights Generation: Define the Cluster research agenda, identifying key knowledge gaps and ensuring insights generation to support decision-making.  Guarantee proper feedback from each country to guarantee having a proper and clear understanding of Consumer & HCP journey for the category brands in charge.

• Performance Monitoring (Strategic Level): Track category performance trends and translate learnings into strategic recommendations.  Define and track KPIs (at Cluster level) to assess category and launches performance.

• Follow-Up of Marketing Plans: Lead the tracking at Cluster level of implementation of local marketing plans for the portfolio, ensuring alignment with both consumer and HCP strategies to achieve financial (Net Sales, Division Margin) and competitive objectives (Market Share, Market Growth).

Qualifications

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or related field; MBA or postgraduate degree preferred.

• Minimum of 10–15 years of experience (preferred) in marketing, category management, or strategic roles in FMCG, OTC, or nutrition categories

• Experience in portfolio strategy, innovation, and cross-market or regional roles is strongly preferred.

Languages:

• Fluency in English is required.

• Spanish is a strong plus.

Core Skills:

• Category Strategy & Long-Term Planning: Ability to define and articulate long-term growth strategies across markets.

• Innovation Management: Experience identifying opportunities and supporting development of strong innovation pipelines.

• Insights & Learning Agenda: Ability to translate data and research into actionable strategic recommendations.

• Regional & Cross-functional Collaboration: Strong ability to work across markets and influence regional stakeholders.

• Strategic Thinking: Strong analytical mindset with the ability to manage complexity and ambiguity.

• Business Acumen: Understanding of market dynamics, competitive environments, and growth drivers.

Competencies / Attributes:

• Strategic and forward-thinking mindset.

• Strong collaboration and influencing skills within matrix organizations.

• Ability to work with ambiguity and drive alignment across geographies.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Structured thinking and problem-solving capabilities.

• Learning agility and curiosity.

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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