Job Title

Project Manager

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’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career of which you dream.
• 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 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 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.

The Opportunity  

This position can work out of any of our US Vascular sites: Temecula, CA, Santa Clara, CA, Westford, MA, St. Paul, MN, Minnetonka, MN, Sunnyvale, CA.

location in the Abbott Vascular Division. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease. 

For years, Abbott’s medical device businesses have offered technologies that are faster, more effective, and less invasive. Whether it’s glucose monitoring systems, innovative therapies for treating heart disease, or products that help people with chronic pain or movement disorders, our medical device technologies are designed to help people live their lives better and healthier. Every day, our technologies 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 fingersticks.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes drug-eluting stents, bare metal stents, guide wires, balloon dilatation catheters, imaging catheters and software, vessel closure devices and peripheral stents.

What you’ll do:

• Coordinate input from multiple areas or multiple project managers on related projects.
• Develop project specifications and objectives, strategies, timelines and milestones/design and
development plan. Utilize project scheduling software to plan and track projects.
• Identify resource requirements, cost, and time schedules. Develop an implementation plan, conduct risk
assessments and develop contingency plans to accommodate unforeseen events.
• Lead cross-functional teams through project planning exercises to develop detailed schedules and
integrated project plans.
• Define the nature of the stated business or technical problem.
• Develop alternatives to major business problems. Assist management in selecting the specific action
plans that will best meet the identified long-term business issues.
• Anticipate long-term future problems, resolve current issues, learn and adjust based on prior results

and prior project leadership experience.
• Assure that projects will effectively integrate with existing programs and strategies so that long and
short term business goals are attained.
• Recognize the broader implications of actions and proposals on the final project outcome, related
systems and activities, and general business strategy.
• Prepare and present project progress reports to keep management and team informed. Identify
problems, their resolution, trends, and their impact on project success; propose recommendations for
management action.
• Analyze date for true causes of problems.
• Accountability/Required Supervision:
• Negotiate project outcomes and deliverables to meet the conflicting demands of time, money and
deadlines.
• Maintain project expenses within budget.
• Drive cross-functional teams to meet milestones and deliverables established in project planning and
agreed upon with senior leadership.
• May function as the project contact with third party vendors.
• Provide leadership on strategic business issues.
• Accountable for the total project scope; completion within budget constraints and scheduled completion
date.
• Accountable for the successful completion of project tasks under direct or matrix control.
• Level loads work to ensure effective use of available resources.
• Leadership Activities:
• Solicit the cooperation of a diverse group of disciplines and functions in a tactful and persuasive
manner.
• Lead others in the completion of project tasks.
• Manage a cross-functional team which may consist of senior level individual contributors.
• Manage the decision-making process.
• Is the final decision-maker for conflicts when in context of agreed upon project plan.

• Creates a work environment that supports team effectiveness. Provides feedback to team members on
performance.
• Level of interpersonal skills:
• Interact with senior level management to reach agreement regarding significant program strategies.
• Interface with other disciplines, customers, internal clients, and project staff and internal/ external
experts as required.
• Prepare and presents written and oral reports and other presentations to internal and external
audiences. Adjusts presentation style and content to suit the audience.
• Negotiate resources, both human and financial.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Required Experience

• Bachelors degree in a related field.
• Minimum 10 years relevant experience.
• Has successfully led several high complexity projects from beginning to end.
• Demonstrated technical skills and management judgment appropriate to the
  project.
• Demonstrated expertise in PM tools and processes.

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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The base pay for this position is $129,300.00 – $258,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.