Manager, Collaboration Portfolio

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:

IT Portfolio Manager – Collaboration tools provides leadership & strategy for a group of IT professionals supporting a major organizational unit responsible for defining, developing, implementing, operating and supporting computer-based systems and related processes and tools that deliver capabilities to work more efficiently. Common projects look like You will be responsible for overseeing development and product integration roadmaps.

What You'll Work On:

• Responsible for all aspects of people leadership; setting expectations, coaching, counseling, developing, evaluating, feedback, hiring, discipline and separations. 
• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
  Understands and contributes to organization's vision, goals and strategies. 
• Aligns department priorities appropriately, determines critical success factors, evaluates and pursues initiatives, investments and opportunities based on fit with strategies.
• Champion change and innovation. Stimulates creativity and innovation in others. Open to new ideas. Supports those who initiate change - and take risks.  Promotes a Global Perspective.
• Ensure that IT solutions meets the needs of the business.
• Negotiate for and secures resources to meet the long-range operational demands of the area.
• Oversee and control department budgets, project capital/RCE expenditures & ROI: develop, monitor and meet expense and recovery plans; continually look for opportunities for cost reductions and cost avoidance.
• Manage IT investment for the function.
• Determine necessary mix of skill set. Confronts and deals with employee’s issues in a constructive and timely manner. 
• Responsible for overall morale of team and promotes cohesive attitude.
• Establishes vendor relations pertaining to staffing/resource plans, determining appropriate mix of sourcing opportunities (outsourcing, offshoring and hot skills).
• Responsible for overall Organizational Effectiveness.
• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional policies and procedures.  Participates in setting policies and procedures.
• Establish and maintain high-quality relationships with all levels across the company and with external partners.
• Make strategic decisions that impact division or site.  Final decision authority for department budget and project   
• activities. 
• Manage shared services that span multiple virtual teams across the world and cross cultures.
   

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, preferably in project management, business, information systems
• 10+ years of overall experience, including 5 years of systems management experience; experience should also include project managemen