Project Manager, Product Lifecycle Management

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:

Project Manager, Product Lifecycle ManagementWorking 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 Plymouth, MN (or CA) location in the Structural Heart Division.

Structural Heart Business Mission: Why We Exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

As the Project Manager, you’ll have the chance to influence and lead our product lifecycle process. In this role you will manage end to end product portfolio projects and standardize lead product lifecycle activities including product worldwide launches and retirements.  Additionally, you’ll facilitate key portfolio meetings as part of the IBP process. 

What You’ll Work On 

• Develops and manages detailed worldwide launch plans for next generation products, working closely with global marketing, supply chain, commercial, and regulatory functions. 

• Facilitates portfolio management reviews as part of the IBP process, summarizing key metrics, product/clinical program roadmaps, product launches, opportunities and risks to the franchise leaders. 

• Provides updates, escalations, and needed decisions to senior leadership. 

• Facilitates franchise configuration management meetings, driving key decisions around ZFIN creation, submission bundling, and ZFIN retirement.   

• Consult with R&D and on-market PMO teams on configuration strategy, language selections, and worldwide launch detailed plan 

• Prepares project plans, schedules and budgets by using project management tools such as Microsoft Project and by working with appropriate staff to understand tasks necessary to complete project. 

• Communicates project status by preparing standard status reports, and by participating in departmental and customer project status update meetings. 

• Resolves project issues by working with team members, project customers, and others as appropriate. 

• Consults with internal project groups by sharing project management knowledge and assisting or mentoring more junior project leaders in project management processes and techniques. 

• Understands business environment and relates extensive knowledge of internal and external technological activities to trends. 

• Interfaces with senior management on significant matters, often requiring the coordination of activity across organizational units. 

• Participates in the development of other technical contributors by facilitating training and providing feedback and guidance.