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Abbott Portfolio Operations - Project Manager in Alameda, California
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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
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 (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program, and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) 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
This position works out of our Alameda, CA location in the Diabetes Care division where we are focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.
As a Portfolio Operations - Project Manager, you will be pivotal in ensuring the efficient execution of our project portfolio, driving on-time delivery, and fostering collaboration across teams. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and have a passion for optimizing project operations, we want you on our team. This is an onsite role in Alameda, CA.
What You’ll Work On
Drive cross-functional alignment around the product strategy and roadmap through the portfolio planning cycle.
Lead portfolio execution: Oversee the successful implementation and execution of projects within the portfolio, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
Ensure on-time delivery: Executes programs to completion and assures successful market entry or makes a timely recommendation to Management to terminate a program if required by technical, commercial or other developments that may result in project failure if not resolved through creative problem solving.
Verify project dependencies: Assess and manage project dependencies to minimize risks and optimize resource allocation across the portfolio.
Communicate project changes: Effectively communicate project updates, changes, and dependencies to commercial members and stakeholders to ensure alignment and minimize disruptions.
Collaborate with cross-functional project managers: Work closely with cross-functional project managers to identify interdependencies, streamline processes, and enhance project delivery efficiency.
Monitor and report portfolio performance: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure portfolio performance, track progress, and provide regular updates to senior management.
Drive continuous improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements, develop best practices, and implement initiatives to enhance portfolio operations and project management processes.
Stakeholder management: Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including commercial members, project teams, and senior leadership, to ensure alignment and support for portfolio objectives.
Actively champion PMO best practices to drive better project planning, execution, project prioritization and change management within Commercial Programs
Accountability / Scope / Budget
This position is responsible for strategic scoping, value definition, and successful and timely implementation of product portfolio.
This position is highly visible and accountable, responsible for liaising with management in driving alignment on key decisions and reporting to senior management project status.
Accountable for driving scope, budget, and quality tradeoffs, not only for a given project, but across projects in conjunction with other stakeholders to optimize portfolio value creation.
Incumbent has limited direct fiscal responsibility for departmental expenses, but has indirect responsibility, along with departmental budget holders, for ensuring that functional budgets are consistent with project scope and plans.
Generally, the incumbent will not have direct reports, but will lead a matrix team with a high degree of accountability to ensure that team is appropriately resourced and that team members are defining plans and adhering to commitments.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in a discipline appropriate to the project or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
Minimum 10 years of related work experience.
Has successfully led several high complexity projects from beginning to end.
Demonstrated technical skills and management judgment appropriate to the project.
Demonstrated expertise in PM tools and processes.
Preferred Qualifications
Strong technical experience in cross-functional program management and team leadership.
Additional cross-functional experiences in the areas of R&D, Commercial, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, Supply/Demand planning and/or Manufacturing, are desirable.
The ability to collect information from multiple sources, synthesize, integrate, and resolve conflicting requirements and cross-functional issues
Strong interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to work and negotiate with a wide variety of stakeholders at all levels of the organization and across variety of departments to align plans and resolve conflict
Process-oriented thinking, focused on continuous improvement and lessons learned; have demonstrated ability to define and implement complex and interdependent business processes
Strong leadership, influencing, and negotiation skills.
Ideally the incumbent has general knowledge of regulations and standards related to medical devices (eg FDA, ISO, QSR design controls.)
*This position may be hired at different levels depending on the experience of the candidate
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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.
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The base pay for this position is $112,000.00 – $224,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com