IT Senior 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 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

IT Senior Program Manager - IT PMO - Merger, Acquisition and Divestiture

position works out of our Abbott Park location in the Corporate Division. This is a strategic leadership role responsible for delivering on business integration, restructuring or divestiture objectives, defining deliverables to meet the deal model and driving IT organizational management to ensure transformation initiatives are effectively executed. 

This role will support and manage the IT aspects of Acquisitions, Divestitures and other significant multidivisional strategic projects for Abbott IT.  To be successful, a candidate must be exceptional at cross functional collaboration, have a bias for action, and understanding of strategic priorities and be detail and process oriented.  Proven ability to digest large amounts of information, understand complex subject matters, develop plans, ability to communicate at all levels of management and mobilize teams in a matrix environment as necessary.

What You’ll Work On

Business & Technology Services (BTS), Abbott Transition Office (ATO)
Licensing, Acquisition and Ventures (L&A)

• Proactively partner and engage with L&A, ATO on key, strategic Executive Suite initiatives on behalf of IT.  

• Partner with ATO and L&A teams early in a transaction to develop due diligence and discovery with complete confidentiality on the target company.  

• Prepare presentations for Executive Steering Committee and ATO led Functional Team governance meetings.

• Align with IT Senior Leadership (ITSL) to establish project goals and timelines to help set strategic IT direction.   

• IT liaison with strong leadership, communication and business relationship skills to align with Corporate and Business Cross-Functional Teams to meet all contractual obligations for a MA&D transaction.

• Manage and provide IT Governance with IT Workstream Leads holding team accountable for timely and professional deliverables.  Ensure delivery timelines are attainable and ensure execution of the IT Program is achieved according to contractual obligations.

Program Management

Translate deal strategy and model into executable integration plans.  Leads and develops cross functional teams to design IT project plans and then implement against those strategic initiative and projects.  Manage projects, activities and resource effectively.  Quickly analyze, diagnose, prescribe, execute, and make course corrections to ensure commitments are maintained.  Work cross functionally and in a matrix environment with business leadership from BTS, Division and ATO to execute strategic initiatives.

Operational Transformation

• Oversee strategic change initiatives, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, ensuring IT teams understand a