Quality Systems Administrator/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:

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

The Quality System Administrator/Project Manager will be responsible for managing, supporting and maintaining division wide Quality System applications (DMS/LMS) in compliance with ISO13485 and other regulatory and industry standards for medical devices. Additionally, the individual will manage projects ensuring excellence in delivery of division and department projects.

What You’ll Work On

• Identify quality initiatives and provide influential leadership to drive proactive continuous Quality System improvements.

• Primary User Administrator to manage and process system account requests for internal and external users.

• Maintain effective Quality metrics and define and execute activities to resolve decreases in performance.

• Represent Quality Systems in support of cross-functional divisional projects.

• Write and execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) protocols.

• Serve as liaison to IT team to address and implement system and process updates.

• Create, analyze, and process change items in compliance with QMS, ISO13485, business procedures, and other applicable standards.

• May step in as temporary department lead as required.

• Provide supervision and development of the Quality Systems staff.

• Lead a variety of different types of projects, including: system enhancement implementations, application development, systems integration, operational efficiency improvements, process reengineering, and Quality System application upgrades and deployments.

• Directs medium-scale complex projects often involving multiple internal and external constituents and matrix partners.

• Ensures end results are of the highest caliber with a clearly articulated scope schedule and quality.

• Directly manages all aspects of the project lifecycle and works with multiple stakeholders to oversee all Project Life Cycle phases of a project.

• Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time cost and quality parameters.

• Provides strong project leadership by employing industry project management best practices and standards.

• Provides on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures.

• Serves as a subject matter expert in routinely briefing key stakeholders on different aspects of assigned initiatives.

• Represents the project in various project governance and inter-department forums.

• Chairs Core Team and other Governance Committee meetings to review progress with key constituents.

• Defines and tracks project milestones while developing, maintaining and reporting on the project delivery plan.