Senior Project 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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We’re 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.

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.

• 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 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 the best place to work for diverse, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

THE OPPORTUNITY 

This Senior Project Manager position can work remotely within the U.S.

Senior Project Manager to execute highly complex or specialized projects.

Adapts precedent and may make significant departures from traditional approaches to develop solutions. Responsible for developing, communicating, implementing, enforcing and monitoring security controls to protect the organization's technology assets from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure or destruction.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON 

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

• Provide project management consultation and mentorship of the various project phases and the deliverables such as: development and execution of the project plan, network diagrams, and the work breakdown structure (WBS); analyzing critical paths; schedule management; resource planning; project budgeting; cost control; quality planning and control; project organizational planning; communications planning; risk identification and control; project performance reviews, project variance analysis, trend analysis, and earned value analysis.

• Manage the delivery of consolidated scorecards, dashboards and status reports that provide objective measurements of the financial, quality and schedule performance of all projects to enable management to make strategic decisions.

• Oversee the development and implementation of a project management knowledge repository to gather data across projects such as “Lessons Learned” to improve project management practices.

•  Provides program facilitation services to support the evolution of project/portfolio management processes and tools (e.g. Clarity, Microsoft Project Server and Microsoft Project Portfolio Server) shared across the organization.

• Further develop Abbott’s project management maturity and help project managers improve project management competencies through coaching, identifying and developing educational courses and materials specific to the field of project management. 

• Proactively identify new trends in project and portfolio management and communicates these with key stakeholders.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in related technical field

• 5-7 years General Business Experience

•  8-10 years General Project Management Experience

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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 base pay for this position is

$125,300.00 – $250,700.00

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

     

JOB FAMILY:

Product Development

     

DIVISION:

ADC Diabetes Care

        

LOCATION:

United States of America : Remote

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 10 % 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 Apply