Global Product Leader, Clinical Decision Support

Abbott • Lake Forest, IL

1d • $129,300 - $258,700 • Onsite

About The Position

Abbott is seeking an experienced Global Product Leader to drive strategy, innovation, and growth for the AlinIQ Clinical Decision Support (CDS) portfolio. The role will shape intelligent healthcare decision support by connecting diagnostics, laboratory informatics, clinical workflows, healthcare data, artificial intelligence, and enterprise healthcare ecosystems. The leader will collaborate with customers, commercial teams, R&D, medical affairs, clinical experts, and executive leadership to develop solutions intended to improve clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, care quality, and patient experience.

The role defines the product vision and multi-year roadmap, identifies market and customer opportunities, prioritizes investments, manages the portfolio lifecycle, and evaluates partnerships and technology opportunities. It partners across development and commercial functions to translate stakeholder needs into product requirements, support user-centered and evidence-based product development, monitor performance, and support global launches.

The leader serves as the voice of the customer, engages healthcare stakeholders, and leads customer advisory and market research activities. The position also guides an integrated CDS ecosystem, including capabilities such as real-time clinical intelligence, predictive modeling, workflow orchestration, evidence-based recommendations, and generative AI-enabled insights, while ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, explainable, interoperable, and aligned with relevant regulations and standards.

The position fosters innovation and collaboration across global teams, mentors product management talent, and develops and executes portfolio business plans, forecasts, investment strategies, and performance measures. It monitors adoption, utilization, market growth, profitability, and return on investment and presents recommendations to senior leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Healthcare Informatics, Life Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Computer Science, Engineering, Public Health, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in product management, product strategy, or portfolio management within healthcare software, clinical informatics, digital health, diagnostics, or healthcare IT.
• Proven success leading global product portfolios and delivering enterprise healthcare technology solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and lead complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong commercial and business acumen, including development of growth strategies, business cases, and investment plans.
• Experience launching and scaling global software, informatics, or digital health solutions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in clinical decision support, healthcare informatics, diagnostics, population health, or enterprise healthcare platforms.
• Expertise in SaaS, cloud-based platforms, digital ecosystems, and platform product management.
• Knowledge of AI/ML-enabled healthcare solutions, clinical analytics, predictive insights, and workflow automation.
• Familiarity with global healthcare regulations, interoperability standards, and healthcare data exchange.
• Experience with healthcare integrations and standards including HL7, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, CDS Hooks, APIs, EHR/EMR, LIS, and healthcare ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the AlinIQ Clinical Decision Support portfolio, aligned with corporate growth objectives.
• Position AlinIQ CDS within Abbott’s Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Healthcare Informatics ecosystem.
• Identify market opportunities, customer needs, regulatory requirements, industry trends, and competitive dynamics.
• Develop business cases and prioritize investments based on clinical value, customer outcomes, market potential, strategic fit, and financial return.
• Lead product portfolio planning, lifecycle management, platform expansion, and innovation initiatives.
• Evaluate partnership, clinical content, AI, healthcare integration, and ecosystem opportunities.
• Partner with R&D, software engineering, medical affairs, clinical affairs, quality, regulatory, data science, and commercial teams to deliver solutions.
• Translate provider, laboratory, payer, and health system needs into product requirements and development roadmaps.
• Champion agile development, user-centered design, evidence-based validation, and continuous improvement.
• Advance clinical rules engines, intelligent workflows, predictive analytics, population health insights, personalized recommendations, and AI-assisted decision support.
• Define and monitor KPIs for adoption, engagement, efficiency, outcomes, and business performance.
• Support global product launches and commercialization efforts.
• Represent the voice of the customer and develop an understanding of clinical workflows, diagnostic pathways, and healthcare decision-making.
• Engage physicians, laboratorians, care teams, executives, population health leaders, and industry stakeholders to validate future solutions.
• Lead customer advisory boards, clinical councils, market research initiatives, and competitive assessments.
• Represent Abbott at conferences, customer engagements, and thought leadership forums.
• Identify trends in value-based care, clinical intelligence, virtual care, predictive healthcare, personalized medicine, and AI-driven workflows.
• Drive strategy for an integrated CDS ecosystem connecting diagnostics, analytics, EHR/EMR systems, clinical workflows, care management, and enterprise platforms.
• Advance intelligent decision support capabilities across the patient journey, including real-time clinical intelligence, predictive modeling, workflow orchestration, and evidence-based recommendations.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver scalable, secure, explainable, and interoperable solutions.
• Ensure alignment with healthcare regulations, standards, governance requirements, and best practices.
• Establish frameworks for clinical content management, recommendation transparency, and ongoing evidence updates.
• Foster innovation, accountability, collaboration, and customer-centricity, and influence and align global cross-functional teams.
• Mentor product management talent and build organizational product leadership capabilities.
• Promote execution excellence, continuous learning, and customer outcomes.
• Develop and execute portfolio business plans, forecasts, investment strategies, and performance measures.
• Manage investment priorities and support annual strategic planning processes.
• Monitor adoption, utilization, market growth, profitability, and ROI.
• Present recommendations and growth opportunities to senior leadership.
• Support strategic decisions related to platform expansion, partnerships, acquisitions, AI capabilities, and emerging technologies.

Benefits

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• Retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
• FreeU education benefit, an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• Career development opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior