General Manager Electrophysiology UK & Ireland

Abbott Laboratories

United Kingdom > Solihull : Remote

Full-Time

Mid (3-6 yrs)

Operations & Project Management

Leadership

Posted on April 3, 2026

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) division is at the forefront of transforming cardiac care through cutting-edge technologies that diagnose and treat abnormal heart rhythms. With a fast-growing portfolio that includes advanced mapping systems, ablation catheters, and remote monitoring solutions, Abbott empowers clinicians to restore healthy heart function and improve patient outcomes.

We are recruiting for an experienced medical devices leader to join us as General Manager EP, UK & Ireland, responsible for developing strategic objectives for the region and translating into operating plans to grow sales and profit in line with agreed targets. The General Manger will build and lead a high performance organization to support delivery, ensuring operational integrity and compliance throughout.

What you will do:

Leads a high performing cross functional team, providing support, feedback and advice to ensure strong results, develops team capabilities, rewarding employees appropriately and addresses performance management issues in a timely manner
Drive sales process effectiveness, helping sales teams apply a consultative sales process enabling them to build value propositions that maximize the attractiveness of the Abbott offering and supports cross-divisional input
Develop deep knowledge of the market, emerging trends, opportunities and threats, including competitor offerings
Supports strategic plan process, develop the vision for the team’s targets and direction
Effective business forecasting, control and reporting, regularly reevaluating performance against forecasts and budgets and takes timely action to meet agreed targets
Financial management, to include local P&L, controlling costs in line with annual expense operating plans
Build relationships with external decision influencers, industry associations, regulatory bodies, local KOLs etc.
Specifies organisational design and headcount requirements
Operates in an ethical, disciplined and orderly way, encouraging coaching and responds productively to feedback

What you will need:

Education

University Degree or equivalent in economics, business and/or medical field. Post graduate education preferred.

Experience

Management experience within the complex medical devices environment, cardiology strongly preferred with a proven track record of building high performing, varied (sales, clinical, education) teams
Significant prior experience with people leadership roles in sales and marketing and with P&L responsibility
Comprehensive knowledge of the local healthcare market, pricing/contracting strategies and regulatory/reimbursement environment
Proven track record of developing local commercial strategies and delivering above market growth and taking share from competitors
Demonstrated success of being a change agent
Demonstrated effectiveness to work across a matrix organization and build relationships and network with key internal and external stakeholders

Attributes

Outstanding leadership skills; agile, resilient and able to adapt depending on the needs of the business
Positive and proactive attitude

Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills
Leads by example, excellent planning and prioritization
Strategic thinker
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

What we offer:

As you would expect from an innovative global health care company, we offer a competitive range of benefits to support you and your family, including excellent salaries, bonus potential, a fantastic defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance and a flexible benefits scheme.

The base pay for this position is

N/A

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.