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Sr. Program Manager, Sustaining

Abbott
Lake Forest, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Oct 2025
💰 $254,700/yr($127,300/yr$254,700/yr)

About the role

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 Lake Forest, IL location in Abbott Rapid Diagnostics. This role is on-site daily and not remote.

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.

As the Sr. Program Manager, your primary role will be execution of programs in accordance to the organizations methodology. The programs will be key initiatives through collaboration with cross-functional teams across the Infectious Disease portfolio globally.  It’ll be critical to understand the markets we are aiming to serve, partner with both regional and global teams, and build relationships to bridge knowledge gaps and influence change without authority.  Doing so will result in helping to serve a very broad community of patients globally and serve a greater healthcare need. 

What You’ll Work On 

  • Partner with regional and global cross-functional teams to drive program excellence of multiple new products, globally
  • Build relationships as a liaison to core teams, regional and global stakeholders identify gaps, brainstorm solutions, and ensure accountability of teams/deliverables
  • Influence change to align to a global structure, creating excitement and campaigns to help drive adoption
  • Work with launch teams to establish KPIs to quantify success and measure progress regularly
  • Develop, prioritize, and submit project plans, budgets across key programs
  • Build excitement around key programs and encourage knowledge sharing across teams​

Required Qualifications 

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 8+ years of related work experience,
  • Solid global product launch and/or training experience required
  • Experience working in a regulated environment, ideally healthcare
  • Solid commercial financial acumen (demand forecasting, building sales funnels, monitoring lead/lag measures, etc.)
  • Excellent communication/presentation skills, and comfortable with presenting to leadership
  • Organized and careful attention to detail
  • Ability to travel 30% ​including globally if required

Preferred Qualifications 

  • MBA strongly preferred
  • Commercial financial acumen (demand forecasting, building sales funnels, monitoring lead/lag measures, etc.)
  • Global Product Launch experience
  • Commercial Sales, Training, or Marketing experience
  • Professional and Consumer product experience
  • Smartsheet, MS Project, and Power B experience or related Master Data capability
  • Operations, Quality, Regulatory experience

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