Associate 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:

Associate Project Manager

Working 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 location, with the Electrophysiology medical device division. In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

We are seeking an experienced, high caliber Associate Project Manager who will have responsibility for planning and leading the resources and processes required for successful implementation of operations/sustaining engineering projects. The Project Manager is involved in the management of activities to ensure that scope and project plans are implemented in accordance with Abbott project methodologies, through proposal and project start up, execution and completion. This position is responsible for day-to-day direction of their matrixed project team and representing the team in project status reporting to all levels of Electrophysiology management. Requires exemplary motivation, communication, organization skills, and attention to detail, as well as the ability to create and manage an effective team environment.

What You’ll Work On

• Responsible for planning and leading the resources and processes required for successful implementation of operations/sustaining engineering projects.
• Leading global cross-functional project teams to drive supplier change projects, projects from New Product Development (NPD) to Operations and/or Continuous Project Improvement (CIP) projects in medical device manufacturing or in a regulated industry to achieve project objectives and schedule and establish project milestones and actions.
• Manage activities to ensure that scope and project plans are implemented in accordance with Abbott project methodologies through proposal and project start up, execution and completion.
• Responsible for day-to-day direction of their matrixed project team (R&D, Science & Technology, Operations, Manufacturing, Design Quality, Quality Engineering, Scheduling, Regulatory Affairs, Packaging, Labeling, Technical Publications, Planning etc.) and representing the team in project status reporting to all levels of Structural heart Management.
• Negotiate with functional managers to resolve resource issues and activities and delegate tasks appropriately to less experienced team members. determine when to escalate issues to appropriate levels of management
• Author Scaled Design Development plan to define project scope, schedule, milestones, assess deliverables, and project close out plan.
• Direct project execution by assigning tasks, tracking project schedules, identifying risks, and developing and executing contingency plans. Identify project issues and make recommendations for resolution. Identify resource requirements, cost & time schedules and take actions to ensure appropriate staffing to achieve project objectives. Identify critical project suc