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:

Job Title

Project Manager

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

This position works out of our Livermore, California location in the Heart Failure Division. In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

This position is responsible for planning, directing and end-to-end managing of  projects within the Abbott Heart Failure (HF) Division’s Acelis Connected Health (ACH) Business Unit (BU) in the PMO function.  This includes the intake of initiatives through project startup to project closure spanning multiple functions within the ACH BU.  This position is chiefly focused on all activities spanning the entire lifecycle of a project. Some major activities of the Project Manager, across the project management lifecycle may be the following: project governance, business and stakeholder engagement, project scope definition and management, project change management, project communications and reporting, project planning through execution, project closure and assistance in post implementation assessment and review.

The Project Manager in this role will champion the PMO function, ensuring that the projects are aligned to the BU strategy, with projects  prioritized, funded and initiated. This role will interact with, but not limited to, the BU functional leaders and Division functional leaders, as needed.  The role will be responsible for the project management of the delivery of projects starting with the successful transition from initiation/intake to execution of project and ultimately closure, ensuring an achievable and successful outcome. 

They will work closely with the functions within the BU to ensure a well communicated project of change activities with strong alignment to BU priorities.  He/She will also be a key point of contact for the project(s), new initiatives, or changes to ongoing initiatives.  The role shall be office based with travel expected, when necessary.  There will be significant extent of project coordination and execution whilst transitioning approved projects to execution and delivery.

This job function has accountability for complying with the applicable standards of Division Project Management Methodology and elements of the Division Quality System, as applicable.

Work Location: Heart Failure offices, Livermore CA, USA

What You’ll Work On

• Carries out duties in compliance with established business policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates commitment to delivering end-to-end projects on-time, within budget, in alignment with stakeholders, following Project Management good practices.
• Responsible for exhibiting professional behavior with both internal/external business associates that reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company’s policies and practices.
• Responsible for understanding and maintaining awareness of the quality consequenc