Senior Program Manager R&D

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:

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.

• 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 is a remote role in the Abbott Diabetes Care Division. We’re focused on helping people with diabetes live life to the fullest by providing products that deliver accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

As a Sr. Program Manager (R&D Technical Program Management Team), you will be leading the development of web applications, cloud services and data sharing tools that empower our diabetes care products. You will take strategic input from leadership and create development plans which define the scope, activities, and execution timing for product launches. You will be leading development team of professionals from Quality, Regulatory, Systems Engineering, Test and Dev Ops through the full life cycle of development. Along the way you will use your technical skills and experience to improve the way we work together and how are products are maintained.

What You’ll Work On

• Expertise and Problem Solving Duties:

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree required.

• 10 years of relevant experience with a BS/BA degree or 8 years or more of relevant experience with a MS/MBA/MA degree.

• Strong, Proven background of managing complex projects. 

• Experience managing project budget and cross functional teams.  

• This position requires the ability to collect information from multiple sources, sort through, integrate, and resolve often conflicting requirements, and drive an organization through the various issues to result in a successful product launch. 

• Knowledge of regulations and standards affecting medical devices (e.g. QSR regulations, ISO13485).

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in a Product Manager or similar role, preferably in the cloud services or SaaS industry.

• Experience in medical device (SaMD) environment is preferred. 

• Proven experience overseeing product development lifecycle.

• Highly effective cross-functional team engagement.

• Ability to create visual representations of product requirements (mockups, prototypes, etc.)

• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts and services (e.g., AWS).

• Understanding of enterprise-level software design and products.

• Familiarity with the full software development life cycle (e.g., Scrum and Kanban)

Apply Now

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

$127,300.00 – $254,700.00

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

JOB FAMILY:Product Development

DIVISION:ADC Diabetes Care

LOCATION:United States of America : Remote

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:Standard

TRAVEL:Yes, 10 % 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)

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

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