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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• Lead multiple project management efforts to achieve excellence in project planning and execution.
• Implement project management philosophy and utilization of project management planning software across the organization.
• Conduct pipeline planning, financial, and resource modeling to prioritize projects and ensure that resources are allocated accordingly.
• Acquire and implement new tools and establish work processes to enable the teams to reduce frustration, bureaucracy, improve communication and decision making and increase focus on the critical tasks.

This is an ONSITE role based out of Temecula, CA

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Executes multiple high quality, integrated cross functional project plans including development of project charters, schedules, milestones, budgets, risks, issues and resources to meet project goals.

• Incorporates technical, resource, operational, and regulatory requirements into project plans.

• Defines the business and financial results expected from a project.

• Develops implementation plans, conducts risk assessments, and develops and implements contingency plans to allow for and accommodate unforeseen events and changes in strategy.

• Develops appropriately detailed, cross-functional, realistic, and challenging timelines that include resource requirements and buffers.

• Ensures that project will effectively integrate with existing competing projects and strategies to ensure that both short- and long-term business goals are attained.

• Coordinates the assimilation of disparate information from multiple sources, analyzes trends, adjusts results and draws inferences.

• Is responsible and accountable for achieving results, where results are expressed in terms of compliance with Design Control and/or Change Control policies, quality, time, scope, and cost.

• Primary point of contact for various strategic projects and interface with functional managers on resource issues and project sponsor on project issues.

• Leads Management Reviews and project meetings.

• Develops and manages agendas, minutes and follow up action items.

• Facilitates cross functional communication between R&D, Marketing, Quality, Regulatory, IT, Operations (including Manufacturing, Purchasing, Customer Service, and Supply Chain).

• Sets interrelated tasks that culminate in clearly defined business results.

• For new product development projects, the business results will typically include the launch of one or more products.

• Differences across the levels of Project Manager are dependent upon increasing project management complexity and increasing level of expected independence.

• Each higher level incorporates the expectations for the lower levels.

• Manages multiple complex large projects.

• Increases the efficiency of the organization and reduces time-to-market for the new products/projects through utilization of dynamic planning and what-if scenario analysis across all projects.

• Provides an effective tool to the senior management to estimate the resource capacity and load and make informed decisions regarding resource capacity adjustments or re-allocation.

• Reduces missing deadlines and improves achieving critical milestones on time and within the expected quality.

• Accountable for managing finances and resources (direct and matrix) assigned to project regarding project tasks.

• Include mentoring and providing feedback to team members.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• Masters Degree (± 18 years)
• MBA advanced degree preferred

Experience/Background

• Minimum 10 years

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