Senior IT Digital Program 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.

Abbott is developing technologies and tools to help our consumers live a healthy life. We are looking for a Senior Program Manager to join our Digital team in Abbott Park in IL.

Core Job Responsibilities

• Ownership and Execution/ Outcomes
  • Lead a large program or functional area within an overall program as the owner of that area's performance and outcomes
  • Interface with senior management on significant matters often requiring the coordination of activity across organization units
  • Partner with senior product and program team, to plan and organize milestones
  • Initiates or maintains schedule for projects and program milestones
  • Establishes priorities of program teams, selects methods and techniques to lead a program to completion
  • Direct program execution by assigning tasks, tracking schedules, identifying risks and developing and executing contingency plans
  • Provide project management consultation and mentorship of the various project phases and the deliverables such as: development and execution of the project schedules; baselines; analyzing critical paths; schedule management; resource planning; risk/issue identification and control; project change requests; weekly and monthly status reporting
  • Resolve program issues by working with product managers, customers, and partners
• Strategy and Collaboration
  • Liaise with commercial, legal and regulatory partners for aligning on vision, outcomes, goals, roadmaps, business case
  • Draft creation of program plans, estimate program effort, resource requirements by using standard estimating techniques and tools and by working with appropriate staff to understand scope and effort
  • Represent the voice of the customer within the organization; understand the user experience, and the evolving needs and workflows of our customers in the digital age.
  • Provide support for Project Capital spending requests including delivery estimates.
• Coaching
  • Manage and mentor project managers, BSAs taking responsibility for their growth, development, and work
  • Ensure program team adheres to philosophy and culture of lean, iterative mindset with quality focus
  • Generate ideas to improve team efficiency, effectiveness and impact.
  • Motivate and coach the team to reach goals and achieve deliverables
  • Assist in continuing to develop and implement standard project management process methods and provide training of these methods to ensure uniform delivery practices.

• Communication
  • Communicate program status, by preparing standard status reports and participating in departmental, program and project status updates meetings
  • Serve as a role model by demonstrating a commitment to business priorities and high performance.
  • Communicates with the team, program, product leadership and key stakeholders frequently and effectively

Minimum Experience / Training Required

• 10+ years Project Management experience in a complex matrix organization managing digital platform projects.
• Experience of working in Agile, Devops, mobile and cloud technologies is a must
• Experience navigating large organizations and an understanding of complex stakeholder relationships is a must
• Strong leadership skills and a passion for translating findings into strategic recommendations
• Proven ability to design and optimize processes.
• Demonstrated ability to assess customer/client needs, creatively approach solutions, decide and influence appropriate courses of action.
• Ability to define areas of potential value through user research, market research, and industry / technical understanding
• Ability to look at a set of needs across the business and identify key questions, themes, and potential for business impact
• Skilled messenger who can create compelling product and use case strategies and gain buy-in across teams and functions
• Mature communicator capable of ruthless prioritization, gracious compromise, and quick decision-making.
• Ability to engage and inspire a team around shared vision and priorities, motivating them to seek improvement opportunities, develop skills, and deliver value.
• Bachelor's degree or MBA is required

Preferred:

• Commercial experience and/or healthcare experience considered a plus.
• PMP, Prince2 certification is considered a plus

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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:

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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