Sr. Program 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:

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

This position works out of our Plymouth location in the EP division.

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

As a Senior Program Manager, you'll have the opportunity to lead programs to develop disruptive technology in electrophysiology that promises to revolutionize patient treatment and prove its safety, efficacy, and efficiency in one of our 3 Portfolios: Ablation, Diagnostics, and Mapping.   

What You’ll Work On

Key performance measures include:

• Lead cross-functional core teams and development activities to meet program objectives including scope, quality, budget, and schedule.  Core responsibilities include:
  • Project planning and contracting
  • Budget planning
  • Resource planning
  • Regular executive status updates
  • Project financial metrics such as ROI, budget, COGS, and capital
  • Creating and maintaining schedules
  • Risk Management

• Devise and execute against a system-level plan that incorporates cross-functional dependencies including those between sub-functions within R&D.
• Drive accountability through identifying dependencies, critical path tasks and forward looking forecasting of program and technical risks, mitigations for those risks and key team decisions with trade offs.
• Adhere to the business process governance and complete phase deliverables to drive project progression.
• Communicate and drive alignment with all levels of the organization on the objectives, risks, and needs for the program.
• Identify opportunities for improving overall business performance of the program.
• Develop plans with core members to eliminate and/or mitigate risk.  If risks cannot be mitigated within the core team, determine appropriate means to communicate and elevate issues to appropriate individuals within the organization.
• Analyzes the impact of changes in existing projects or addition of new projects and identifies strategies (resources allocation/project sequencing) for accomplishing all desired projects----identifies project interrelationships that affect priority and resources allocation decisions.
• Manage/mentor program managers directly as required.
• Maintain positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
• Maintain a safe and professional work environment.
• Establish and maintain the program and product Design History File.
• Comply with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments. 
• Identifies and implements continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the effectiveness of the PMO.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science discipline.
• Minimum 12 years experience in R&am