Government Affairs Director

Found in: beBee S PH - 1 month ago


Taguig City, Philippines Abbott Laboratories Full time

MAJOR DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Bring strengths in advocacy, business knowledge, judgement, and process management to successfully lead Government Affairs efforts for Abbott.
  • Develop superior political, policy and influencer networks for Abbott by coordinating the building of strong GA, local GMs (Country Managers), Functional and External Advisor networks to cover key targets. Ensure that Abbott team has skills needed to build and maintain effective networks.
  • Build the reputation of Abbott GA as the preferred, go-to trusted partner, honest brokers who drive for constructive solutions.
  • Establish and maintain relationships with specifically assigned key members of Legislature, Ministries, Civil Service and Executive Office with great importance to Abbott's goals and objectives. This involves identifying key targets, prioritizing resources, networking with their office staffs and developing outreach and grassroots programs.
  • Stay apprised of business goals and strategies in order to assess impact to Abbott from regional, local, state/provincial legislative, executive, and regulatory activities. Consult with appropriate business and corporate personnel in making such determinations, providing recommendations for formulation of action plans.
  • Identify health care, economic and other policy developments in Government that could impact Abbott's business and operation. Proactively identify opportunities for Abbott to pursue favorable government policies and effectively defend Abbott against government policies that could harm shareholder interests. Drive efforts of GA team to positively address these policies.
  • Develop proactive policy and strategic plans to shape legislation and agency actions for both macro and business/product specific initiatives. Develop successful positioning the right content (data), emotional understanding and political sensitivity with relevant business and corporate personnel and when appropriate, with outside allies, coalitions and trade associations.
  • Deliver strong messaging in support of Abbott positions - combining the right substance, with a credible, trusted approach.  Work collaboratively with all relevant Abbott support functions to ensure message consistency and delivery to key targets via appropriate channels.
  • Participate in Asia Pacific country and regional government affairs strategies and meetings as assigned.
  • Participate in Corporate GGA Network and support One Abbott approach.

EDUCATION:

  • Bachelor's degree required, a Master's degree in Political Science, Public Policy, Public Health, or MBA is preferable. 

EXPERIENCE:

  • Fifteen year's minimum in positions of increasing responsibility and experience in government affairs or public policy in best-in-class health care or consumer products industry is strongly desired. 
  • Proven extensive contact network, involvement and success in shaping the development of government policies/legislation and strong knowledge of process.
  • Exceptional level of relation management, agility and strategic planning.

  • Excellent project management and organizational skills, adept at multi-tasking and managing a complex array of projects, personalities and issues. 
  • Experience in matrix reporting and project management.  Team player who can effectively work across the internal and external organizations. 
  • Must be fluent in English (oral/written). 

PROBLEM-SOLVING:

Problem solving and integrity are key competencies of this position. Incumbent must be able to apply sound judgment to the analysis and resolutions of various governmentsâ priorities of interest across cross-divisional business units. This role requires strong analytical skills to dissect complex range of public issues and assess impact to Abbott.

ACCOUNTABILITY

Incumbent needs to appropriately anticipate, identify, coordinate and successfully execute a cross-divisional, customer-based and government-linked strategic program(s). Position has significant impact across all Abbott business operations. 

SCOPE OF AUTHORITY

Being an individual contributor role, the incumbent must be able to act independently and demonstrate sound business judgment within the scope of their strategic projects and activities. 

The incumbent is part of the Global Government Affairs, Asia Pacific Team, interacts within the Asia Pacific region. The position is ideally based in the Philippines.

Depending on the proven and consistently high performance of incumbent, opportunities for development include geographical expansion, special projects and potential successor to regional director role.

The role reports to Divisional Vice President Government Affairs, Asia Pacific.



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