Senior Program Manager R&D

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.

• 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 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

This position is a remote role in the Abbott Diabetes Care Division. We’re focused on helping people with diabetes live life to the fullest by providing products that deliver accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

As a Sr. Program Manager (R&D Technical Program Management Team), you will be leading the development of web applications, cloud services and data sharing tools that empower our diabetes care products. You will take strategic input from leadership and create development plans which define the scope, activities, and execution timing for product launches. You will be leading development team of professionals from Quality, Regulatory, Systems Engineering, Test and Dev Ops through the full life cycle of development. Along the way you will use your technical skills and experience to improve the way we work together and how are products are maintained.

What You’ll Work On

• Expertise and Problem Solving Duties:

• Coordinate input from multiple areas or multiple project managers on related projects.

• Develop project specifications and objectives, strategies, timelines and milestones/design and development plan. Utilize project scheduling software to plan and track projects.

• Identify resource requirements, cost, and time schedules. Develop an implementation plan, conduct risk assessments and develop contingency plans to accommodate unforeseen events.

• Lead cross-functional teams through project planning exercises to develop detailed schedules and integrated project plans.

• Define the nature of the stated business or technical problem.

• Develop alternatives to major business problems.  Assist management in selecting the specific action plans that will best meet the identified long-term business issues.

• Anticipate long-term future problems, resolve current issues, learn and adjust based on prior results and prior project leadership experience.

• Assure that projects will effectively integrate with existing programs and strategies so that long and short term business goals are attained.

• Recognize the broader implications of actions and proposals on the final project outcome, related systems and activities, and general business strategy.

• Prepare and present project progress reports to keep management and team informed. Identify problems, their resolution, trends, and their impact on project success; propose recommendations for management action.

• Analyze date for true causes of problems.

• Accountability/Required Supervision:

• Negotiate project outcomes and deliverables to meet the conflicting demands of time, money and deadlines.

• Maintain project expenses within budget.

• Drive cross-functional teams to meet milestones and deliverables established in project planning and agreed upon with senior leadership.

• May function as the project contact with third party vend