Project Manager

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

The Project Manager will ensure excellence in delivery of division and department projects. Administer, support, and maintain division wide quality system applications in compliance with ISO 13485 and other regulatory and industry standards for medical devices. You will be responsible for managing medium to large-scale projects from beginning to end, with accountability for project execution. Demonstrate stewardship and provide project leadership to meet Division strategies and business objectives. Deliver project excellence by incorporating best practices in project management to meet and or exceed customer needs. Identify process issues and recommend improvements to team members and management. Act as point of contact for project reporting & updates. Provide support as required to Program or Portfolio Management. Build and maintain dashboard for department with relevant KPIs to monitor quality compliance and effectiveness.

What You’ll Work On

• Lead a variety of different types of projects, including quality system application improvements and implementations.
• Gather, analyze, and prepare detailed reports and dashboards.
• Maintain effective Quality metrics and drive proactive continuous Quality System improvements.
• Collaborate with team in establishing ground rules and chartering team.
• Ensure project scope is clearly defined.
• Develop and manage project plan to meet deliverables.
• Facilitate completion of project documentation and recommend readiness management review.
• Participate in project assessments and communicate lessons learned.
• Responsible for execution of scope change management and project close-out processes.
• Provide cross-functional forecasting, tracking, reporting and oversight on project budget, expenditures and metrics.
• Facilitate project team members through the project management process; ensure team is working within project scope and addressing questions for next project review.
• Create and deliver project review presentations.
• Document project plan in Project Management (PM) software and maintain project documentation.
• Manage cross-functional project timeline and follow-up with project team members to ensure timely completion of tasks.
• Proactively identify and manage project opportunities/ issues/ risks.
• Collaborate with representatives from appropriate functional areas across the division to meet project objectives.
• Drive for results and timely decision-making.
• Resolve project team conflicts.
• Responsible for identifying critical project issues and risks, and timely communication to senior leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree with a minimum of 6 yrs of relevant combined experience in project management, quality system administration, and data analytics. (Equivalent education and work experience will be accepted.)
• Ability to manage, communicate, and coordinate the project management phases of Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing
• Demonstrated skills in collaborating and influencing cross-functionally
• Demonstrated leadership competencies
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
• Strong planning and execution skills
• Strong integration skills; ability to coordinate all aspects of a project

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong technical skills (e.g., MS Power BI) or programming experience.
• Experience as an Administrator for Veeva Vault applications.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine finger sticks.

Diabetes

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

The base pay for this position is $100,000.00 – $200,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.