Project Manager

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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

The Project Manager position works onsite at our Austin, TX location in the Medical Device division. As the Project Manager, you will work across systems, process, and technology within the Enterprise Accounts Commercial Operations Team.

The successful candidate in this position must be a trusted business partner and enabler, who demonstrates mastery in all aspects and phases of large-scale digital transformation. From application development and project management, vendor management, process and data harmonization, and validated systems implementations. This position requires strong leadership capabilities, an executive presence, and the ability to simultaneously think and act strategically and tactically to balance long-term planning in parallel with flawless execution. The Project Manager will lead project and delivery activities that require collaboration with a diverse set of Business Partners, Integrator Partners, and Information Technology Resources to successfully deliver solutions and ensure value is achieved.

What You'll Work On

Ownership and Execution/ Outcomes  

• Lead a large Program with multiple workstreams related to Process, Data, and Technology.
• Interface with senior management on significant matters often requiring the coordination of activities and decisions across Business Units.
• Partner with senior product and program team, to plan and organize milestones.
• Initiates or maintains schedule for projects and program milestones.
• Establishes priorities of work streams, selects methods and techniques to lead a project to completion.
• Direct project execution by assigning tasks, tracking schedules, identifying risks and developing and executing contingency plans.
• Provide project management consultation and mentorship of the various project phases and the deliverables such as: development and execution of the project schedules; baselines; analyzing critical paths; schedule management; resource planning; risk/issue identification and control; project change requests; weekly and monthly status reporting.
• Partner with Organizational Change Management to effectively mitigate risks associated with Leadership Alignment, Functional Process, data, and technology changes, and internal customer satisfaction.  
• Measures and transparently communicates program and project progress and status updates
• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional policies and procedures.

Strategy and Collaboration

• Liaise with Commercial partners for aligning on vision, outcomes, goals, roadmaps, and business case. 
• Draft creation of project plans, estimate project effort, resource requirements by using standard estimating techniques and tools and by working with appropriate staff to understand scope and effort.
• Represent the voice of the customer within the organization; understand the user experience, and the evolving needs and workflows of our customers in the digital age.

Coaching

• Supervise, motivate and mentor cross-functional project team including, but not limited to business intelligence specialists, functional analysts, business analysts, project managers, business analysts, developers, and validation analysts. 
• Ensure project team adheres to philosophy and culture of lean, iterative mindset with quality focus.
• Generate ideas and continuously work to improve team efficiency, effectiveness, and impact.
• Motivate and coach the team to reach goals and achieve deliverables.
• Assist in continuing to develop and implement standard project management process methods and provide training of these methods to ensure uniform delivery practices.

Communication

• Communicate project status, by preparing standard status reports and participating in departmental, program and project status updates meetings.
• Communicate project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate project status and decision support information to Project Team, Division, Cross Division and Executive management.
• Serve as a role model by demonstrating a commitment to business priorities and high performance.
• Communicate with the team, program, product leadership and key stakeholders frequently and effectively.

Minimum Experience/Education Required:

• Bachelor’s degree
• A minimum of 7 years experience in either project management, software development or deployment, OR Commercial Operations
• IT and/or project management experience in large or midsized. multinational Health Care, Medical Device, or Consumer Goods organization preferred.
• Experience navigating large organizations and an understanding of complex stakeholder relationships is a must.
• Strong leadership skills and a passion for translating findings into strategic recommendations.
• Proven ability to design and optimize processes.
• Demonstrated ability to assess customer/client needs, creatively approach solutions, decide, and influence appropriate courses of action.
• Ability to define areas of potential value through user research, market research, and industry / technical understanding.
• Ability to look at a set of needs across the business and identify key questions, themes, and potential for business impact.
• Mature communicator capable of ruthless prioritization, gracious compromise, and quick decision-making.

Preferred:

• Broad and deep knowledge in Commercial Operations business processes and technologies with a focus in contracts, rebates and revenue management systems

• Working knowledge of the following systems is desired: SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft Power Suite
• Commercial experience and/or healthcare experience considered a plus.

The base pay for this position is

$111,300.00 – $222,700.00

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

JOB FAMILY:IT Services & Solutions Delivery

DIVISION:MD Medical Devices

LOCATION:United States > Austin : 8701 Bee Caves Rd

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:Standard

TRAVEL:Yes, 5 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

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