Program Manager

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. Youll 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 bachelors 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 is based on site daily in our Lake Forest IL location in the Abbott Core Diagnostics Digital Health Solutions business which is on a mission to transform diagnostics using data and digital technologies.

As the Program Manager you areresponsible for leading complex programs for product development and commercialization in Digital Health business. While the emphasis of the role will be in product development and release programs will involve all major business functions (e.g. R&D commercial product management service operations legal IT) and third party partners. This high-impact PM will additionally be instrumental in building the culture and capabilities within program management across the business including core team structure governance templates tools and overall execution framework. You will represent the program to the organization reports core team progress program recommendations risks and resolutions of issues to senior leadership.

The ideal candidate will be an expert in project management fundamentals have demonstrated strong program-level execution and be a change agent in building a strong PM culture.

What Youll Work On

• Manage projects programs and/or portfolios spanning the cross-functional areas including:

  • Engineering & new product development

  • Product management & marketing

  • Service & supply-chain operations

  • Support functions including Regulatory Legal Medical Affairs IT

• Manage high-complexity projects containing multiple workstreams including core team and extended teams.

• Manage projects involving global stakeholders in many time-zones across the world with day-to-day work with cross functional members and partners in United States Europe.

• Drive culture of core team effectiveness by ensuring clear expectations adequate resource planning and accountability structure.

• Drive initiatives to improve program management practices and tools including: (1) implementation of waterfall vs. agile (2) governance templates (3) prioritization framework.

• Follows all regulatory policies procedures privacy and security standards in accordance with government agencies.

• Develops plans with core members to eliminate and/or mitigate risk. If risks cannot be mitigated within the core team determines appropriate means to communicate and elevate issues to appropriate individuals within the organization.

• In partnership with engineering and cross functional leaders identifies opportunities for improving overall performance of the program.

• Works closely with functional core team leaders and mentor when necessary.

• Maintains a safe and professional work environment.

Required Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in a technical or engineering discipline

• 8 years of experience required for progressively responsible experience in engineering or related technical discipline.

• 15% or more of international travel is required you must be able to travel with a current travel visa.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing programs with complex requirements in a highly regulated industry.

• Expert-level demonstrated knowledge in technology lifecycle processes (SDLC agile waterfall Scaled Agile etc.)

• Knowledge and understanding of software technologies and technology stack including on-premise enterprise systems cloud-native architectures micro-services and AI tools.

• Experience managing programs in large enterprises with established processes.

• Familiarity with healthcare services and products experience in a regulated industry is ideal.

• Certifications in Project Management such as PMP or Agile Scrum Master.

• SAFE Agile knowledge.

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