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 Alameda, CA location in the Diabetes Care division where 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 R&D Project Coordinator will be responsible for supporting cross-functional teams in the planning and execution of R&D projects. This role ensures alignment with business goals, facilitates communication, and drives project milestones to successful completion.

What You’ll Work On

•Lead the team through the translation of management and customer needs into project goals. Develop a preliminary implementation plan. Propose contingency plans to respond to unforeseen events. Maintain compliance with regulatory agencies, quality system and project goals. Assure that Design Control and compliance requirements are met.

•Manages team charter including project goals. Manage the decision-making process. May function as the project contact with third party vendors. Interface with other disciplines, customers, internal clients, project staff and internal and external experts as required.

•Prepare and present written and oral reports and other presentations to internal and external audiences.

•Interprets Results/Recommends Options: Determine if results match requirements. Ensures that the necessary documentation is in place to meet quality and regulatory requirements.

•Integrates Project Activities: Develops detailed, cross functional, realistic time lines including resource requirements, plans for contingencies, estimates buffers, etc. Converts goals to tasks, gathers information regarding effort, resources, and technical complexity and translates that information into project specifications. Implements project plans to meet project goals, considers technical, resource, and regulatory requirements.

•Continuously Improves: Recommends innovative ways to improve performance, quality and enhance profitability on an ongoing basis, modifies work processes and procedures in line with current ADD quality and regulatory requirements. Works with cross-functional team to resolve resource conflicts, allocations.

•Achieves Goals: Makes and meets aggressive commitments to achieve plans and maintain progress.

•Manages Change: Evaluates the impact of project changes and adjusts implementation activities to meet revised. Clearly communicates any changes and the impact to original plan to the cross-functional team and senior management in a timely fashion.

•Drives for Results: Removes organizational barriers to achieving results. Listens actively to acquire information and understand the other person's viewpoint. Balances the time needed for accomplishing current work and planning and achieving development goals.

•Builds Relationships: Initiates and cultivates open, honest, and beneficial relationships with colleagues and customers by establishing rapport, developing an understanding of others' needs, promoting common goals and following