Director, Design Transfer

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
• 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 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

Provide strategic leadership in directing and overseeing the transfer of all new products from R&D into Manufacturing Operations, including the completion of commercialization activities to launch new products according to division goals. Exercise leadership in a multidisciplinary environment to expedite, manage, and coordinate a multitude of interrelated activities within the constraints of limited resources and changing priorities. Develop program strategies for product transfer. Serve as the key R&D interface to Manufacturing Operations, Quality, and other cross-functional leadership for product transfer.

What You’ll Work On

• Provides oversight and leadership to new product teams to develop transfer strategies for new products.
• Anticipates problems, resolves issues, learn and adjust based on prior results and leadership experience to solve problems that occur during product transfer.
• Manages the Design Transfer group.
• Provides coaching, mentoring and effective oversight of the team.
• Work cross-functionally with division leadership to insure successful transfer and commercialization of new products.
• Coordinate input from R&D and cross-functional division leadership from Manufacturing Operations, QC, QA, Clinical Affairs, Planning, Purchasing, Validations, and Regulatory on related projects or sub-projects to increase resource efficiencies and reduce product cost through close collaboration.
• Develop product transfer strategies, timelines, and milestones.
• Identify resource requirements, costs and time schedules for the project funding process.
• Recognize the implication of actions and proposals on the final product outcome, related systems and activities, and general business strategy.
• Prepares reports and presents progress to management.
• Identify problems and recommend appropriate action plans.
• Serve directly and indirectly on multiple project teams in a leadership capacity to support process and compliance improvement activities.
• Achieve new product launch dates and key product milestones.
• Accountable for completing the transfer and launch of new products within budget constraints and project completion dates, and leading others in the completion of project tasks and subprojects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in management or in a discipline appropriate to the project.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Project Management certification is desirable but not essential. 
• Minimum 10 years required of relevant career experience.
• Related work experience and a proven track record required in the transfer and launch of complex molecular assays or immunoassays for clinical use.
• In-depth understanding of the product development process for IVDs and the transfer activities required at each phase from feasibility to product launch.
• Knowledge of regulations and standards affecting IVDs.
• Strong knowledge in project management and product development required.
• Proven written and oral communication and presentation s