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.
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.
The Opportunity
This position works remotely in the Diagnostics Division.
We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.
What You’ll Work On
The Project Manager is responsible for leading diagnostic automation implementation projects. They are accountable for ensuring that these projects are completed within scope and on time, leading multiple simultaneous projects at any given time.
- Work directly with the sales and service teams to create project plans that deliver the agreed-upon solution in the desired time frame.
- Serve as the primary point of contact with the customer throughout the life cycle of the project.
- Develop appropriately detailed, cross-functional timelines that include resource requirements and management reserve.
- Manage the scope, scope changes, risks, and issues for each project and work with stakeholders to overcome obstacles and mitigate risks.
- Manage projects in the enterprise management tool and ensure that project records are kept up to date.
- Recommend innovative ways to improve project management processes and performance in the PMO.
- Work with cross-functional teams to resolve conflicts, manage changes in the project, and adjust activities to meet new requirements.
- Establish routine joint operating mechanisms with Abbott and customers to ensure good communication and alignment.
- Drive for on-time project execution and customer satisfaction as primary project objectives.
Main Responsibilities:
- Lead the team through the translation of management and customer needs into project goals.
- Identify resource requirements, cost, and time schedules for all projects.
- Develop an implementation plan, conduct risk assessments, and develop contingency plans to accommodate unforeseen events and changes in strategy.
- Ensure projects effectively integrate with existing programs and strategies to attain long and short-term business goals.
- Maintain compliance with regulatory agencies, quality system, ethics policy, and project goals.
- Accountable for the successful completion of project tasks on time and within budget.
- Manage resources assigned to the project regarding project tasks.
- Mentor and provide feedback within the team.
- Ensure project requirements are met.
- May function as the project contact with third-party vendors.
- Interface with other disciplines, customers, internal clients, project staff, and internal and external experts as required.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a discipline appropriate to the project environment with a minimum of five years relevant experience, one year of which must be in leadership/project management roles.
- Experience: 5 to 7 years.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of regulations and standards affecting diagnostics.
- Ability to negotiate with resource managers to resolve resource limitations.
- Participate in division initiatives to identify process improvements to accelerate projects.
The base pay for this position is $95,000.00 – $190,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
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