Global Product 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 ARDx locations such as Lake Forest IL or Charlottesville, VA in the Informatics Division. 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.

As a Global Product Manager for Cloud Platform Solutions, you will lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of cloud-native software products that transform client and patient experiences. You will drive innovation by aligning customer needs with scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud technologies. Your leadership will be instrumental in delivering differentiated value across global markets, contributing to our mission of improving lives through better health and energy management.

What You’ll Work On

Product Strategy Development:

• Conduct market research and competitive analysis with a focus on cloud-native trends, multi-cloud strategies, and platform capabilities.

• Benchmark best-in-class cloud solutions and emerging technologies to support data and ML/AI capabilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and prioritize cloud-specific requirements, including scalability, security, and compliance.

• Define product strategy and roadmap for cloud-based offerings, including SaaS, PaaS, and hybrid deployments.

• Conduct market research, competitor analysis, and customer feedback to identify market needs and use cases.

• Prioritize features based on clients’ business value and feedback.

• Champion business model innovation, and industry leading, digital friendly methodologies to guide capital allocation and measure customer and business success.

• Conduct product discovery sessions, internally and externally.

• Stay at the forefront of industry trends by participating in marketing leading events and speaking engagements. Share findings with the org and incorporate learnings into content and materials. 

Product Planning and Execution:

• Oversee the product lifecycle from ideation to launch and post-launch activities – lead Discovery efforts, offer inputs to Design and team to Build and Launch new product offerings

• Integrate usability studies, research, and market analysis into product requirements to improve engineer productivity and enhance user satisfaction.

• Develop detailed product epics, features, stories and acceptance criteria.

• Coordinate with engineering, design, and quality assurance teams to ensure timely and high-quality product documentation development, updates and delivery.

• Foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including business units, clients, and vendors.

• Participate in industry events and speaking engagement.