Project Manager (Santa Clara CA)

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

This position works out in our facilities of Santa Clara CA in the Diagnostics Division. 

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

What You’ll Work On

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE

The Project Manager serves as the liaison between project owners, project team and management to guarantee an open and accurate communication of project and program achievements and issues to be escalated for resolutions. Identifies areas for process improvements and defines/implements solutions serving as the key contact to disseminate the new process requirements to the organization.

The process is intended to ensure the Senior Management has the appropriate data and synthesis thereof for optimal decision-making in support of the Product Portfolio and Division strategy. 

The successful candidate may also serve as Project Owner for one or more projects in the product portfolio, executing the project in accordance with the above process expectations. Accountable for driving scope, budget, and quality tradeoffs, not only for a given project, but across projects in conjunction with other stakeholders to optimize portfolio value creation.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

•Implement, monitor and improve business processes in support of Project Management,  Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and sub-processes thereof

•Demonstrate stewardship and provide project leadership to meet Division strategy and business objectives

•Manage activities associated with product-related projects by coordinating the activities from key functional areas such as R&D, Operations, Regulatory, Quality and Commercial

•Projects being managed may include market and line extensions, reformulations, new products, new manufacturing process and new packages

•Act as a point of contact for IBP process reporting and updates

•Facilitate project managers through the project management and IBP process; ensure cross-functional team is working within process definition for reporting to Sr. Management. Resolve project team conflicts and project data integrity

•Implement process improvements solutions to support the division to achieve its long-term goals.

•Provide business updates as needed regarding project status, resource needs, risks and decisions to be escalate to Sr. Management in a timely manner

•Document project management process and use of project management tools and reports

•Create a work environment that supports cross-functional team effectiveness

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree (± 16 years) Business or Technical discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Experience: 4+ years.<