Senior Business Process Manger - MDM/MM

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:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. 

The Opportunity:

We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Business Process Manager – MDM/MM

The primary focus of this position is to provide oversight and direct operations of the global process teams supporting the functional area (Master Data/Material Master). The Senior Business Process Manager will be responsible for definition and implementation of operational procedures and service performance improvements. This role leads the development of the business process design and implementation of business process standardization, harmonization and improvement programs (i.e., continuous improvement initiatives) within the respective functional process area.
 

Core Job Responsibilities

• Understand and drive the vision and strategy of their respective business functional area as follows:
• Work directly with the respective Global Process Owner (GPO), act as the global point of contact for processes and provide leadership for process area operations.
• Work collectively and collaboratively with global and regional teams within and across their functional area as part of a matrixed organization
• Contribute to long range strategic planning by providing insight into process are growth projections and/or improvement strategies.
• Collaborate with ERP program team as needed to drive prioritization of initiatives and lead business process harmonization activities aligned to overall ERP strategy.
• Partner across global process, functional teams and BTS to build and maintain strong working relationships across other organizations and customer base.
• Provide operational process support and expertise for M&A and divestitures.
• Lead and monitor continuous improvement initiatives related to respective functional process area including process standardization, simplification, and technology innovation.
• Develop baseline metrics and service level agreements (SLA) and key performance indicators (KPI) to measure effectiveness of deployment initiatives through the 30/60/90 post hypercare process.
• Support development and preparation of solid business cases for identified technology based continuous improvement initiatives helping to ensure the details are accurately captured in executive presentations outlining the business value for Abbott in alignment with the overall strategy.
• Be a trusted advisor to BTS leadership on respective functional process area.
• Work with BTS leadership to turn business objectives into actionable plans and deliver expected outcomes.

Position Accountability & Scope

• This role must be able to build consensus within the respective functional process area as well as across functional process areas when required. This includes influencing without direct authoring across towers, Divisions and geographies.
• This position must be viewed as a process leader supporting the Global Process Owner within the respective process thread including influen