The MD Benelux is responsible for the overall management, strategy and leadership for all activities of Abbott Diagnostic across the Region including sales, marketing, finance and HR issues. He supports the affiliates commercial and distributor organizations in effectively meet their needs of their customer bases and enables growing of the business. He is involved in marketing and strategic business development to identify new product and market opportunities within Abbott existing businesses in a certain geographic area. Actively collaborate with the Service organizations, Quality and other parts of the global organization.

•Determines and drives the strategy for the entire region in alignment with area and global distributor strategy

•Manage and grow the relationships between Abbott and its customers and implement a highly innovative go-to-market strategy.

•Ensures continuous improvement of KPI‘s and distributor processes including Sales, Service, and Operational Excellence

• Define the long-range strategic plan for the region and ensure that plan objectives are met. Balance the long-range plan with short-term business needs.

•Develop Strategies and execute to ensure KPI targets are achieved

• Build and maintain a strong positive profile with the company’s key stakeholders,

• Assess, identify and prioritize potential market growth opportunities as well as market synergies to secure competitiveness and ensure corrective actions are implemented when required.

• Anticipate market trends and environmental forces and implement the necessary changes to meet distributor and customer needs.

•Responsible for contract compliance (volume, pricing, utilization, efficiency) 

•Implement and sustain business processes that ensure efficient execution of key business initiatives.

• Leading business excellence initiatives, develop a high performance organization.

• Acquire, inspire and retain top talent to achieve a high level of competence, motivation and efficiency in order to secure sustainable profitability and in doing so, develop a high performance organisation, driving best practice, and create a culture of innovation, pro-activity and accountability.

• Inspire the team and operate in a legal and ethical manner and ensure that products and services are marketed in accordance with compliance requirements.

• Create a culture of innovation, risk and high accountability