Senior Manager Program Management

Job Description

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 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Leading an active lifestyle is important to the many people we serve. In Abbott’s ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY & HEART FAILURE division, we’re advancing the treatment of heart and vascular disease through breakthrough medical technologies in EP/HF, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Employee Value Proposition:

Lead the dedicated team developing one of Abbott Electrophysiology’s newest therapy catheters. 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. Key performance measures include:

• Optimize the plans driving the development effort with an 80% confidence schedule and contract agreed to with executive leadership
  • Leverage a dedicated cross functional core team to update plans and ensure functional leadership is in alignment
  • Incorporate input from the extended team assigned to develop the product
  • Coordinate resources to optimize team efficiency and manage budget to plan
• Lead and inspire the dedicated development team to select a design
  • Cast vision highlighting the unmet need that describes the “why” behind the program
  • Use your experience in developing complex medical device disposable products to guide the team through challenges
  • Balance development speed with feature scope while meeting Abbott’s high quality expectations
• Release the product for clinical investigations
  • Fastidiously maintain scope while identifying and mitigating program risks
  • Collaborate with teams developing complimentary system components to ensure success of the total solution
  • Apply your knowledge and experience with FDA and EU MDR to optimize the path to release
  • Maintain and update key deliverables to follow portfolio management process at various stage gates
  • Schedule and manage monthly business review meetings to communicate progress to Portfolio Review Board (PRB)

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Required Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced level degree(s) in Engineering, Sciences, Business Administration, or a related discipline
• Extensive medical device industry experience
• 4+ years project management of sterile disposable medical devices

WHAT WE OFFER

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:

• Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
• Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
• Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs
• Paid time off
• 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
• The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities