Sr. Manager, PMO

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:

Senior Manager, PMO

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

Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for treatment and management of diseases and other conditions.

The position of Senior Manager, PMO is within our Infectious Disease –business unit located in Scarborough, Maine.  In this role you will be responsible for providing technical leadership for the organization. These services include the identification and implementation of best practices for the project management process, centralized support for effective project planning, evaluation of project planning deliverables for large capital projects, project scheduling, estimating and controls for critical capital projects, identification of new services needed and benchmarking to drive improvement activities.

What You’ll Work On

• Manage multi-disciplined engineers to address both strategic and tactical issues in support of the division operations.

• This position ensures that the proper knowledge of best practices is developed and accessible to teams and individuals involved in capital projects so that projects are developed and executed per regulatory, client and good engineering practice requirements.

• Implement standardized project planning and execution processes and drive consistent application of these processes across Abbott.

• Effectively work with and provide guidance to divisional leadership teams to support project management standardization and drive improvements for project management processes.

• Provide accurate schedule development, cost estimating and controls for critical capital projects to improve project performance and Abbott's competitive advantage.

• Evaluate large capital project planning deliverables for completeness and provide feedback to ensure expectations are met and understood.

• Stay abreast of and benchmark with industry organizations to promote competitive industry trends and new technologies that are applicable to the services and operations within the division.

• Identify new services or changes to existing services in the portfolio to meet and anticipate customer's needs.

• Represent the organization with respect to the development of engineering best practices that apply to the entire corporation.

• Educate various engineering disciplines, team members and functional areas on key initiatives and best practices.

• Enhance project management skills and knowledge of the organization through training and education programs.

• Develop standard processes, tools and templates that support the planning and management of capital projects.

• Collect key project information and deliverables for the organization.

• Drive business improvements through evaluation of key performance indicators, communication of lessons learned and competitive benchmarking and analysi