Associate Director, Project Leadership

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.

As an Associate Director, project leadership, you will be responsible for Managing one or more projects with moderate to high complexity. Expedite, manage, and coordinate a multitude of interrelated activities within constraints of limited human and financial resources and changing priorities. Complies with quality system. May be required to establish / manage project budget.

In this role, you will lead high-performing cross-functional teams to ensure speed and innovation remain a core competency and that the team is focused, energized and on-track to meet the overall strategic and commercial objectives of our product launches.

This position requires natural leadership and a high level of independence, the ability to collect, synthesize, and integrate information from multiple sources, and to resolve conflicting requirements and cross-functional issues. This is an onsite opportunity in Alameda, CA.

What You’ll Do

• Define, plan, coordinate and integrate activities associated with existing products updates or geographic expansion commercialization within the overall business portfolio on time, on budget and on strategy. These activities include coordination of artwork and labeling, in-house and third-party manufacturing, inventory phase in and phase out, procurement and other activities.
• Coordinate input from multiple areas or multiple project managers on related projects. Identify resource requirements, cost, and time schedules. Develop an implementation plan, conduct risk assessment, and develop contingency plans to accommodate unforeseen events.
• Assure that projects will effectively integrate with existing programs and strategies so that long- and short-term business goals are attained. Recognize the broader implications of actions and proposals on the final project outcome, related systems and activities, and general business strategy.
• Lead cross-functional teams through project planning exercises to develop detailed schedules and integrated project plans. Utilize project scheduling software to plan and track projects.
• Drive cross-functional teams to meet milestones and deliverables established in project planning and agreed upon with senior leadership. Creates a work environment that supports team effectiveness. Provides feedback to team members on performance.
• Develop and maintain launch plans such that needed commercial product volumes are available on time and that excess and obsolete inventory is minimized.
• Solicit the cooperation of a diverse group of disciplines and functions in a tactful and persuasive manner.
• Manage the decision-making process. Is the final decision-maker for conflicts when in context of agreed upon project plan.
• Prepare and present project progress reports to keep management and team informed. Identify problems, trends, resolution alternatives and their impact on project success; propose recommendations for management action.
• Accountable for the total project scope; completion within budget constraints and scheduled completion date. Accountable for the successful completion of project tasks under direct or matrix control. Level loads work to ensure effective use of available resources.
• Negotiate resources, both human and financial.

Experience You'll Bring

Required

• 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

• Degree in business or a technical or scientific discipline or equivalent experience relevant to project area.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Lean Six Sigma (LSS) certification.
• MBA considered a plus.
• Commercial, technical, manufacturing, quality, or supply chain experience in a health care/medical device company
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work with a wide variety of people at all levels of the organization within a variety of departments.
• Cross-functional experience in areas of R&D, Commercial, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Marketing, and Customer Service.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Project, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)
• Demonstrated ability to work in a large/complex company environment.
• Minimum 2 years of Direct management/supervisory experience.

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

CRM

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Diabetes

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.

Vascular

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission:  why we exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

EP

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

HF

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

The base pay for this position is $146,700.00 – $293,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.