Specialist Project Management

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:

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

We have an opportunity for the role of Project Management Specialist within our Diagnostics division based out of Princeton, NJ and this is an onsite role.

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.

As the Project Management Specialist, you'll support on-market product programs within Abbott Point of Care by coordinating software releases, sustaining engineering initiatives, and product improvement projects. You'll partner across technical and business functions to drive execution, maintain compliance, and support product quality, performance, and continuity throughout the product lifecycle.

What You'll Work On

On-Market Product Support & Sustaining Projects

• Lead and support cross-functional projects for on-market products, including software releases, sustaining engineering activities, and product improvement initiatives.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, action item logs, and project dashboards.
• Coordinate execution of product changes, manufacturing updates, supplier-driven changes, cost improvement projects, and component obsolescence initiatives.
• Monitor project progress and ensure milestones, deliverables, and business objectives are achieved on schedule.
• Support implementation of approved product enhancements and maintenance updates.

Software Release Management

• Plan and coordinate software and firmware releases in accordance with defined release schedules and business priorities.
• Partner with R&D, Systems Engineering, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Operations, and Commercial teams to ensure successful release execution.
• Track release readiness, key deliverables, risks, dependencies, and cross-functional commitments.
• Facilitate release reviews and communicate project status, risks, and timelines to stakeholders and leadership.

Cross-Functional Team Leadership

• Coordinate activities and deliverables across R&D, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Product Management teams.
• Facilitate project meetings, document decisions, and drive accountability for commitments and follow-up actions.
• Foster alignment across stakeholders and support resolution of cross-functional issues and competing priorities.

Risk & Issue Management

• Identify, assess, and track project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Develop mitigation plans with project teams and proactively escalate critical risks.
• Apply structured problem-solving approaches to support resolution of project challenges that impact scope, quality, cost, or schedule.

PMO Governance & Reporting

• Develop and maintain project dashboards, status reports, executive summaries, and project metrics.
• Support PMO governance processes, reporting standards, project review meetings, and portfolio reporting.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of project management processes, tools, and best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, Business, Project Management, or a related technical discipline.
• 2-5 years of experience in project management, sustaining engineering, software release management, product development, medical devices, diagnostics, biotechnology, or related technical fields.
• Experience managing project schedules, milestones, risks, and cross-functional deliverables.
• Experience coordinating activities across multiple technical and business functions.

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