IT Sr Project 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:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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

The IT Sr. Project Manager position works out of our Lake County, IL or St. Paul, MN location in the BTS division. As the IT Sr. Project Manager, you will work with across Manufacturing Execution Systems platforms within the Abbott landscape.

The successful candidate in this position must be a trusted business partner and enabler, who demonstrates mastery in all aspects and phases of large-scale application development and project management, vendor management, and validated systems implementations. This position requires strong leadership capabilities, an executive presence, and the ability to simultaneously think and act strategically and tactically to balance long-term planning in parallel with flawless execution. The IT Sr. Project Manager will lead project and delivery activities that require collaboration with Business Partners and Information Technology Resources to successfully deliver solutions and ensure value is achieved.

What You'll Work On

Ownership and Execution/ Outcomes  

• Lead a large project delivery or functional area within an overall program as the owner of that area’s performance and outcomes.
• Interface with senior management on significant matters often requiring the coordination of activity across organization units.
• Partner with senior product and program team, to plan and organize milestones.
• Initiates or maintains schedule for projects and program milestones.
• Establishes priorities of project teams, selects methods and techniques to lead a project to completion.
• Direct project execution by assigning tasks, tracking schedules, identifying risks and developing and executing contingency plans.
• Provide project management consultation and mentorship of the various project phases and the deliverables such as: development and execution of the project schedules; baselines; analyzing critical paths; schedule management; resource planning; risk/issue identification and control; project change requests; weekly and monthly status reporting.
• Resolve project issues by working with product managers, customers, and partners.
• Measures performance to assure the project is progressing as compared to original plan and budget.
• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional policies and procedures.

Strategy and Collaboration

• Liaise with manufacturing partners for aligning on vision, outcomes, goals, roadmaps, business case. 
• Draft creation of project plans, estimate project effort, resource requirements by using standard estimating techniques and tools and by working with appropriate staff to understand scope and effort.
• Represent the voice of the customer within the organization; understand the user experience, and the evolving needs a