Senior PMS 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:

Senior PMS 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

The role of the Senior PMS Project Manager will be to expedite, manage and coordinate a multitude of interrelated Post Market Surveillance (PMS) IT project activities within the constraints of human and financial resources and changing priorities to ensure the successful completion of projects.  

This position will be based out of our Abbott Diabetes Care in Alameda, CA and the individual will be expected to be onsite Monday-Friday.

What You’ll Work On

• Works with IT to establish and gain consensus on project goals, objectives and deliverables in consideration of PMS processes and resources.
• Assess the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect PMS processes by working with SMEs, department leadership, and IT to gain agreement for resolution.
• Measure performance to assure the project is progressing as compared to original plan and budget, communicating risks and deviations to PMS leadership
• Develops and executes a work plan to ensure all activities are performed. Gather lessons learned and obtain final project approval from PMS leadership.
• Communicate project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate project status and decision support information to Project Team and PMS Leadership
• Coordinate resources and time to ensure project needs are addressed and effectively coordinate tasks and deliverables to team members based upon their abilities.
• Collaborates on a cross-functional project team of SMEs, business analysts, developers, and validation analysts ensuring alignment and compliant execution.
• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures
• Manages Projects at the department level.
• Makes decisions that impact projects or Departments.  Influences or has final decision authority for project level, budget and activities.
• Business impact and risk of $0-15MM in business financial impact.

Required Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Business, Comp Sci or related or equivalent education and work experience will be accepted.
• Minimum of 10 yrs of experience in project management, business systems analysis, software development or deployment

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in the medical device industry and/ or quality systems are strongly preferred. 

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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