Sr. Manager, Systems Verification

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, System Verification

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

Leading an active lifestyle is important to the many people we serve. In Abbott’s Electrophysiology division, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives. 

The Senior Manager, Systems Verification at our Little Canada/St. Paul, MN location, will play a key role in this fast growing, highly visible group, designing and developing electromechanical medical devices in Abbott’s Electrophysiology medical device division.  In this role, you will provide functional and technical leadership for system verification team.  The team is responsible for the product development of new products and subsystems for our market-leading Electrophysiology (EP) mapping, diagnostic, and ablation devices.

What You’ll Work On

• Building and coaching a team through identifying career development opportunities, providing constructive feedback when necessary, and increasing the technical proficiency across all team members.
• Working with program managers and cross-functional leaders to guide and scope program planning, schedules, and budget.  Ensuring the team is aligned with meeting program timelines and milestones.  Participation in formal design reviews.
• Managing the development of goals, objectives and strategies for system verification team. 
• Developing and maintaining system level expertise and continually working to improve system level test methods and strategy.
• Drive ownership of V&V plans and execution.  Work cross-functionally with other areas of R&D, regulatory, and quality to ensure comprehensive design characterization and V&V strategies.
• Support Systems Engineering requirements development and tracing.
• Identify opportunities to develop data for claims substantiation.
• Communicating to senior management as required including technical presentations, status updates, and program reviews as required.  
• Remains current on developments in field(s) of expertise, system engineering best practices, regulatory requirements, as well as industry trends. 
• Promoting and supporting the development of intellectual property and clinical relevance of test methods.
• Support all Company initiatives as identified by management and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and other regulatory requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Biomedical, Mechanical Engineering or other related Engineering or Physics/Applied Mathematics
• 10+ years of progressively increased work experience in a high technology research and development environment of which a minimum of 4 years of experience at a supervisory/managerial level
• Strong leadership skills and experience managing an engineering team
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal).  Must be able to effectively communicate information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross division business unit model
• Strong organizational, planning, and budgeting skills

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a regulated medical device space or similar environme