IT Digital Product 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 113,000 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.

The Opportunity

Our location in Lake County, IL currently has an opportunity for a IT Digital Product Manager as part of our Digital & eCommerce organization. Abbott is developing technologies and tools to help our consumers live a healthy life. We are looking for a Digital Product Manager, who wants to be part of the team, which manages products from concept, to user research, to design, to prototyping, production, testing, promotion, support, and finally product end of life. This role requires practical experience of digital product management, agile, lean working culture and ability to lead ideation and brainstorming sessions to drive prioritization, architectural alignment and manage the backlog to implementation.

What You'll Work On

• Work within a collaborative team of go to market leaders, product owner, business architects, product designers, managers, engineers, technology architects across the product lifecycle
• Work with product owners, business architects, strategy team to ideate, design and define the product capabilities
• Maintain a strong understanding of latest industry trends, competitive advancements, end user empathy to continuously advance the product
• Conduct interviews with stakeholders and end-users to synthesize insights into actionable next steps
• Establish and implement digital and business architectures capable of meeting a continuously changing product to support market and client needs
• Drive creation of iterative product roadmap by prioritizing the capabilities and features required with product stakeholders
• Work with developers and designers to define and prioritize a backlog for your product that continuously delivers measurable value towards the vision
• Provide technical leadership in driving architecture, evaluate and make decisions on technologies, tools and overall technology strategy
• Work with the product team to research and evaluate alternative solutions and recommend the most efficient, faster time to market enabling cost-effective solutions
• Collaborate with designers, prolific engineers, security and quality experts, etc. to manage the capability/ feature rollout as per the defined roadmap
• Create and manage backlog, drive creation of user stories, and manage releases with the teams
• Work closely with security and regulatory stakeholders to drive product feature review and approvals for launch

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience product management or similar experience of managing application lifecycle from ideation to production and support
• Bachelor's Degree/ Master's Degree preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field is required.
• Experience of working in Agile, DevOPs, Mobile and Cloud technologies

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in Health Care industry is preferred but not required
• Experience with digital, eCommerce and mobile
• Experience in environments using AWS or Azure
• Experience with JIRA tool-preferred
• Experience in a quality regulated environment
• Consulting/ advisory mindset
• Product Management or product design experience for digital products
• Empathy for the end user
• Practical experience with design/ collaboration tools and lean, agile methodologies/tools
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to break down complex problems into smaller steps
• Experience navigating large organizations and an understanding of complex stakeholder relationships
• Experience of contributing to strategy, creating outcome-driven product roadmaps and driving creation and management of backlogs
• Experience with Lean Product Management and User-Centered Design methodologies
• Enjoys working in fast moving product team

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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

The salary for this role is between:

N/A

JOB FAMILY:

IT Services & Solutions Delivery

DIVISION:

ARDx Abbott Rapid Diagnostics

LOCATION:

United States > Waukegan : J46

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

United States > Chicago : WeWork National Building 125 S. Clark Street

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Yes, 20 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf