Head of Strategy & Transformation

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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.

• 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.

• Potential future job opportunity at Abbott.

The Opportunity - Head of Strategy & Transformation

This position works out of our Pakistan office location in the Abbott Established Pharmaceuticals division.

About Established Pharmaceuticals

We are committed to bringing the benefits of our trusted medicines to more people in the world’s fastest-growing countries. Our broad portfolio of high-quality and differentiated branded generic medicines reaches across multiple therapeutic areas including gastroenterology, women's health, cardiometabolic, pain management/central nervous system, and respiratory.

The Head of Strategy and Transformation is responsible for leading the end-to-end transformation agenda of the site, driving a zero-loss culture, strategic clarity, organizational alignment, capability building, and sustained operational excellence.

As a core member of the Site Leadership Team, this role acts as the central integrator of strategy execution, ensuring that strategy, culture, systems, processes, and people are fully aligned to deliver short-, medium-, and long-term business objectives.

The role is accountable for embedding structured continuous improvement disciplines, PDCA rigor, and performance governance, while simultaneously leading cultural transformation, capability development, and organizational effectiveness. This position ensures that the organization moves from fragmented initiatives to a fully integrated, system-driven, and high-performance environment delivering sustainable business results

What You'll Do-

1. Strategic Planning & Master Planning

• Lead the development of the site’s 3-year strategic masterplan, including:

  • Long-term vision and ambition

  • Strategic priorities and focus areas

  • Required organizational capabilities and behaviors

• Translate strategy into a fully integrated annual site masterplan, ensuring:

  • Clear linkage to business and commercial objectives

  • Alignment across all functions and departments

  • Defined KPIs, milestones, and deliverables

• Develop zero-loss journey roadmaps across a 3-year horizon, identifying:

  • Key loss areas

  • Transformation levers

  • Expected business impact

• Ensure clear cascade of strategy to departmental and individual plans

• Continuously review and refine the strategy based on:

  • Performance outcomes

  • Market dynamics

  • Organizational maturity

2. Operational excellence leadership

• Lead and deploy the Manufacturing linked Continuous Improvement strategy aligned with business objectives.

• Drive Lean Manufacturing, TPM, Six Sigma, and Operational Excellence initiatives across both sites.

• Establish annual productivity, cost savings, waste reduction, and efficiency improvement roadmaps.

• Facilitate Kaizen events, Rapid Improvement Workshops, and structured problem-solving sessions.

• Ensure sustainability of CI systems through governance, standard work, and KPI management

• Design and implement best-in-class production management systems aligned with operational excellence objectives

• Drive structured loss elimination through robust RCA (Root Cause Analysis) systems

• Improve OEE, line efficiency, yield, labor productivity, and asset utilization

• Reduce manufacturing losses including downtime, waste, changeover time, quality defects, and energy consumption

• Lead improvement initiatives using:

  • Lean Manufacturing

  • Six Sigma / DMAIC

  • Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

• Foster a strong continuous improvement mindset across the organization

3. Continuous Improvement Program (CIP) Leadership

• Lead the end-to-end CIP portfolio across the site, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities

• Deploy structured node-specific loss analysis tools to identify high-impact opportunities

• Drive the full loss elimination lifecycle, including:

  • Identification and prioritization of losses

  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

  • Solution development and implementation

  • Sustainability and control

• Govern all CIP initiatives through a structured framework ensuring:

  • Clear ownership and accountability

  • Robust tracking of benefits and outcomes

  • Alignment with business targets

• Facilitate and lead cross-functional improvement programs, ensuring integration across functions

• Build a strong pipeline of high-impact projects delivering measurable financial and operational benefits

4. Performance Management & PDCA Governance

• Establish and embed a site-wide PDCA management system, ensuring:

  • Structured planning aligned with strategy

  • Disciplined execution

  • Regular review and performance tracking

  • Continuous learning and adjustment

• Align all functional and departmental PDCA cycles to:

  • The site masterplan

  • Strategic priorities

  • CIP objectives

• Design and lead site-wide drumbeats, including:

  • Weekly functional performance reviews

  • Monthly site performance reviews

  • Quarterly strategic reviews with senior leadership

• Ensure each drumbeat:

  • Is structured, data-driven, and action-oriented

  • Has clear escalation and decision-making mechanisms

• Drive execution discipline and accountability by:

  • Tracking progress of all actions

  • Ensuring closure and impact delivery

  • Eliminating delays and inefficiencies in execution

5. Culture & Organizational Effectiveness

• Lead the design and execution of the site-wide cultural transformation agenda

• Use structured tools such as:

  • High Performance Organization (HPO) assessments

  • Organizational performance models

  • Employee engagement diagnostics

• Establish clear linkage between:

  • Cultural behaviors

  • Organizational performance

  • Business results

• Identify key behavioral and cultural gaps, and develop targeted interventions

• Drive initiatives to build:

  • Accountability and ownership

  • Problem-solving mindset

  • Collaboration across functions

  • Transparency and performance focus

• Engage directly with teams across all levels to:

  • Reinforce desired behaviors

  • Drive cultural adoption

  • Build trust and alignment

6. Learning & Development (L&D)

• Design and implement a comprehensive site-wide L&D system aligned to strategy and operational needs

• Ensure every role across the site has:

  • Clearly defined competencies

  • Structured skill matrices

  • Capability development pathways

• Develop systems for:

  • Continuous capability assessment

  • Skill progression tracking

  • Targeted learning interventions

• Integrate L&D with:

  • Performance management systems

  • CI deployment

  • Organizational transformation goals

Establish mechanisms to ensure continuous learning, capability growth, and system sustainability

7. Talent Development & HR Partnership

• Partner closely with HR to design and deploy:

  • Comprehensive onboarding programs

  • Early career development frameworks

  • Leadership development pipelines

• Ensure alignment between:

  • Talent strategy

  • Capability building

  • Long-term business needs

• Develop a strong internal talent pipeline, reducing dependency on external hiring

• Support succession planning for:

  • Critical roles

  • Leadership positions

  • Transformation-critical capabilities

8. Communication & Engagement Strategy

• Lead the design and execution of the site communication strategy

• Ensure clear and consistent:

  • Cascade of strategy and masterplans

  • Communication of performance results

  • Reinforcement of cultural messages

• Establish structured communication forums across:

  • Leadership

  • Middle management

  • Frontline teams

• Drive high levels of engagement and alignment, ensuring employees understand:

  • Business priorities

  • Their role in delivering results

  • Expected behaviors and outcomes

9. Organizational Governance & Change Management

• Design and implement a robust organizational governance framework

• Define and drive clarity on:

  • Roles & Responsibilities (R&R)

  • Decision rights

  • Accountability structures

• Develop and deploy an organization-wide change management system to:

  • Manage transformation initiatives

  • Ensure adoption of new systems and processes

  • Monitor change effectiveness

  • Ensure adherence to governance frameworks across all functions

10. Simplification & Digitization

• Develop and lead a multi-year simplification and digitization roadmap

• Identify opportunities to:

  • Reduce process complexity

  • Eliminate non-value-added work

  • Improve efficiency and cycle times

• Deploy digital tools and platforms to:

  • Enhance data visibility

  • Enable real-time performance tracking

  • Support data-driven decision-making

• Ensure integration of digital solutions into:

  • Daily management systems

  • Performance reviews

  • Operational routines

11. Work Process Optimization

• Lead identification of improvement opportunities across all site functions

• Conduct structured process mapping and workflow analysis, including:

  • Flowcharting

  • Effort and workload balancing (effort vs value analysis)

  • Bottleneck identification

• Redesign processes to:

  • Improve efficiency and speed

  • Enhance clarity of roles

  • Reduce duplication and waste

• Ensure all improvements are:

  • Standardized

  • Documented

  • Embedded into daily operations

Required Qualifications-

Bachelor's degree with at least 5 to 6 years of experience in a manufacturing site with core manufacturing along with lean manufacturing continuous improvement exposure.

Leadership skills

Strategic mindset

Strong Communications skills

Team management

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is

N/A

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

     

JOB FAMILY:

Corporate Planning

     

DIVISION:

EPD Established Pharma

        

LOCATION:

Pakistan > Karachi : Opp: Radio Pakistan Transmission, Hyderabad Road, Landhi

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Not specified

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Not Applicable