Product Manager, Technical

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:

Product Manager, Technical

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

Abbott New Medical Sensors is an innovative and exciting new venture, investigating and commercializing novel technologies that will provide patients, and the professionals who treat them, with better health insights across a broad range of disease states.  Our breakthrough wearable technologies support medical decision making and encourage patient-centric care with the combined aim of improving medical outcomes.

Although we are part of a Fortune 500 healthcare company, we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up and are not afraid to challenge the status quo. We are preparing for significant growth in new areas of health and healthcare and are assembling a best-in-class team to take us into this new future.

We are seeking an experienced, high-calibre individual with a background in New Product Introduction and Product Development to be part of Abbott New Medical Sensors team.

What You’ll Work On

• Provide strategic and tactical support for the Research & Development Department to achieve an innovative pipeline to drive competitive advantage and enable accelerated growth aligned with overall business strategy
• Establish and maintain relationships with critical business and technology decision makers, including internal stakeholders, vendors and other external partners.
• Collaborate closely with Marketing to drive (internal and external) customer research using surveys, product analytics, market research, interviews, hackathons, online forums or other cost-effective means of gaining insight into the "voice of the customer."  Use these insights to define customer segments, key personas, unmet needs and critical value drivers and integrate them into internal development priorities and roadmap.
• Create systematic approaches to capture and utilize competitive intelligence across the organization and integrate them into product strategy and roadmap.
• Establish a cohesive technical product roadmap that’s market backed and aligned to the business goals.  Define release strategies and themes for each release.
• Work with key stakeholders to make frequent, dynamic prioritization decisions based on the latest market insights, product team metrics and customer feedback. Define, track and communicate key product performance indicators required to inform this process and track business results.
• Provide technical product expertise to product team members, including product managers, product owners, product operations and experience designers in a matrixed organization.
• Nurture a culture of innovation and experimentation, and effectively mentor, guide and evaluate team members. Support a collaborative, diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment.
• Keeps the organization’s vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action
• Utilizes technical/professional knowledge and skills to establish, interpret and execute company policies in a major segment of the company
• Monitors and ensures compliance with company policies and procedures 
• Makes and executes operational decisions with a strategic perspective

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, marketing, or finance.
• 4-6 years of technical product management experience, with demonstrated success in defining, building, and launching both home and hospital-based products, in a regulated industry.
• Strong familiarity and experience as a Technical Product Owner working closely with distributed digital/software development teams.
• Strong familiarity and experience with data integration solutions and messaging protocols, including interoperability with electronic medical record systems across different care settings and geographies, HL7 / FHIR, API-based integrations, etc.
• Demonstrated experience in diverse roles (e.g., technology, marketing, commercial, customer success, product management) with increasing responsibilities across domains and digital technology.
• Demonstrated experience with design thinking principles and agile software delivery.
• Demonstrated customer engagement experience with various personas in the healthcare delivery domain:  C-suite, clinicians, IT leaders, and biomedical engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences at various hierarchical levels.
• Experience leading change in a large, matrixed, global organization.
• The ideal candidate will possess strong outside-in, customer-driven, design thinking perspectives, is an expert in outcome driven innovation, possess a growth mindset, and excellent strategic planning and thinking skills.  Experience applying Lean methodologies – problem solving, continuous improvement and daily management will be a strong plus

Apply Now

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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 fingersticks.

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

$112,000.00 – $224,000.00

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

JOB FAMILY:Product Development

DIVISION:ADC Diabetes Care

LOCATION:United States > Alameda : 1360-1380 South Loop Road

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:Standard

TRAVEL:Yes, 25 % 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), Continuous standing 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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