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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

Abbott Molecular has an opening in its Des Plaines, IL site for a Senior Project Manager within its Business Excellence team (PMO). Our Molecular Division delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions.  We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions. This role is on site 5 days a week.

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading and influencing internal and external stakeholder to accelerate the installation, qualification, and ultimately the routine adoption of Abbott Molecular’ s recently launched diagnostics platform at key customer sites.  A critical element of success for the project manager is to understand the roadblocks and challenges faced by Abbott Molecular’ s customers and to identify solutions to overcome those challenges. The project manager will work in a highly cross functional internal environment, as well as with Abbott’s customer base.

What You’ll Work On

• Drive cross-functional team activities on the division’s most key customer accounts, starting early in the sales process to the customer using the system routinely.

• Analyze complex problems and apply critical thought to identify potential solutions. 

• Collecting performance data from customer sites, analyzing the data to gain meaningful insights, and driving projects to address problems.

• Drive technical and logistics activities, including installations, trainings, troubleshooting, and customer validations to achieve commercial revenue targets. 

• Critical thought leader who is creative in solving and/or supporting complex issues.

• Lead a project team to ensure that projects are completed on-time, within budget and according to project specifications.

• Monitor progress and performance against the project plan.

• Identify and resolve operational problems and minimize delays.

• Evaluate and escalate changes that significantly impact the scope or timeline of a customer account or installation.

• Demonstrate excellent communication skills in person, over the phone, via email, and across teams.  Communicate complex topics in succinct and practical terms.

• Manage ongoing relationships with external partners so that organizations the most desirable outcome.

• Comfortable at addressing senior management (internal and external) in addition to coordinating at the team and individual level.

• Collaborate well across a variety of global organizations and cultures.

• Works seamlessly within with each level of the business to ensure the customer’s needs and expectations are properly met.

• Present effectively and negotiate program trade-offs with the end goal of meeting both parties’ needs.

• Look for and capitalize on opportunities to demonstrate value to the customer.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree

• Minimum 7 years’ experience in a healthcare field

• Prior project management experience

​​Preferred Qualifications

• MS/PhD/MBA degree

• PMP certification

• Knowledge and experience in both diagnostic and pharmaceutical development, clinical validations, and regulatory submissions.

• Experience in leading projects in a matrixed organization and in delivering results using influence without authority

• 5 + years of prior project management experience, include the use of tools for creating and managing schedules, budgets, and resource plans

• Financial acumen with experience developing business cases, net present value analyses, etc.  

• Experience with scenario planning as part of problem-solving process.

• Prior experience working with R&D and Regulatory on medical devices/products or relevant experience in medical devices.

** Military / Veterans welcomed to apply**

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.

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The base pay for this position is

$109,300.00 – $218,700.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Project Management

     

DIVISION:

AMD Molecular

        

LOCATION:

United States > Des Plaines : 1350 East Touhy Avenue

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

No

     

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.

     

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