Director, Global Training & Intelligence Services

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 115,000 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 defines, leads, and implements training strategies to support short and long term AQR training needs and initiatives for Abbott Quality functions as well as maintain Documentation Management of Abbott AQR and GES Global and Divisional Policies/Procedures.

This position must ensure that the quality, regulatory and compliance-related curriculum needs are met and aligned with Abbott's overall business strategy.

This position must execute training strategies while balancing cultural, financial and resource constraints. These training strategies are implemented and executed through Abbott Quality and Regulatory (AQR) Training and the Abbott divisions. AQR Training is an Abbott Quality and Regulatory resource center that provides shared services, training curriculum, and quality awareness initiatives to all Abbott Divisions and employees worldwide. This position identifies, manages and leads training strategies for the corporate-wide quality, regulatory and compliance programs impacting Abbott's business.

This position leads the team responsible for processing change requests for new documents and revisions to existing documents. The incumbent ensures that any changes made to existing documents are appropriate, justified, and as with new documents, are approved by the required functional areas according to established procedures. Additional responsibilities may include coordination of documentation with project teams, plus successful completion of assigned projects.

This role is responsible for the oversight of research and creation of reports for divisions and senior management from internal and external sources regarding quality/regulatory data such as news which impacts Abbott operations, competitor inspections, recalls, and operations etc.   Additionally, involved in projects to improve methods for data gathering, analysis and visualization.

Job responsibilities include:

• Establishing training design and delivery processes to ensure highly effective and efficient quality-related training programs

• Standardizing quality-related curriculum

• Providing global training across Abbott

• Identifying best practices across Abbott and external sources for training

• Define policies/procedures/guidance strategies to ensure full compliance with global applicable regulations

• Develop strategic partnerships with senior management (Divisional Vice Presidents and Directors) and associated business councils to deliver strategies that have a broad impact on all business areas within Abbott

• Obtain and leverage benchmarking data from peers and industry leaders to ensure best-in-class training solutions and learning services for Abbott quality, regulatory and compliance

• Interface with Abbott Divisions and outside practitioners in the field of Adult Learning, Instructional Design, On-the-Job Training and Curriculum Management to ensure that Abbott is current on the latest training techniques and methods and to help establish and deploy training s