Sr Program 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 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  

This position works out of our St. Paul, MN location in the EP division.

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

As the Sr. Manager, Program Management, you'll have the chance lead Abbott Advanced Tech Center Research and Development site's Pulsed Field Ablation Portfolio focusing on the Pulsed Field Ablation Generator, TactiSys Contact Force Device and Ampere RF Generator. Develop a disruptive technology in electrophysiology that promises to revolutionize patient treatment and prove its safety, efficacy, and efficiency.  This is a top priority program with high visibility in a double-digit growth business that will play a major role in shaping our future portfolio.

What You'll Work On

• Leading and optimizing development efforts to meet the market needs by developing a high confidence schedule and contract, maintaining scope and budget, presenting status/updates to executive leadership and proposing solutions from a set of development options
• Coordinating across multiple R&D teams including Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, HDL, Systems Design and Verification teams, cross functional stakeholders including Marketing, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain by casting vision and resolving resource conflicts
• Driving accountability through identifying dependencies, critical path tasks and forward looking forecasting of program and technical risks, mitigations for those risks and key team decisions with trade offs
• Creating, leading and releasing Project Plans, Contracts, Design Reviews and Technical Reviews
• Organizing and coordinating the build and use of prototype builds and system component integrations

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science discipline
• 7+ years of leadership experience in a medical device, biomedical or high technology industry

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years project management of electro-mechanical systems (electrical, mechanical and firmwar