Technical Solutions Design Center of Excellence 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 remote in the Core 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.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

What You’ll Work On

The Center of Excellence (COE) TSD Manager leads a team of experts to provide best-in-class expertise, leadership and guidance to the frontline TSD team, ensuring the frontline TSD team are fully enabled to engage with the full end to end solutions.

The leader drives TSD strategy and direction through a team of expert designers, data analysts, trainers and informatics specialists focused on accelerating win rate and speed to revenue along with gross margin impact and solution Fit and Proof evidence. The COE Manager accelerates client buy-in and contract awards to Abbott through utilization of advanced 3D, QR, Simulation, site specific installation plans, data analytics and informatics solutions.

The leader provides and coordinates expert level training to frontline TSD team to consistently elevate performance. Enhancing TSD commercial contribution by developing and integrating optimized and compliant materials such as solution modeling data, solution transition journey, 3D renderings, walk through videos and solution tours. Ensure compliant and authorized tools are maintained, utilized and trained so that there is a level of consistency and excellence in all TSD functions.

Core Job Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and motivate the Technical Solution Design Center of Excellence team. Manage resources to ensuring the team delivers innovative and high-quality support to the front line TSD sales team. Foster a collaborative and motivating environment that drives the team toward continuous improvement and excellence.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for Abbott’s automation, instrumentation, and informatics products, including preanalytical, analytical and post analytical solutions. As the experts - ‘expert’ of technical specifications, guide the Automation, Instrumentation, and Informatics teams on best practices of designing solutions that meet customer space and workflow requirements. Provide expert insights on all end-to-end laboratory designs in the area to include appropriate electrical, routing and capacity determinations.
• Evaluate, develop, and commercialize new technologies that improve the efficiency and differentiation of Technical Solutions Design processes and strategic deliverables. Partner with Technical Solutions Design area leaders and COE teams to develop and implement standardized automation, analytics, w