Project Manager

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.

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 of which you dream.
• 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.

This position can work out of any of our US Vascular sites: Temecula, CA, Santa Clara, CA, Westford, MA, St. Paul, MN, Minnetonka, MN, Sunnyvale, CA.

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

For years, Abbott's medical device businesses have offered technologies that are faster, more effective, and less invasive. Whether it's glucose monitoring systems, innovative therapies for treating heart disease, or products that help people with chronic pain or movement disorders, our medical device technologies are designed to help people live their lives better and healthier. Every day, our technologies 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.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes drug-eluting stents, bare metal stents, guide wires, balloon dilatation catheters, imaging catheters and software, vessel closure devices and peripheral stents.

What you'll do:

• Coordinate input from multiple areas or multiple project managers on related projects.
• Develop project specifications and objectives, strategies, timelines and milestones/design and development plan. Utilize project scheduling software to plan and track projects.
• Identify resource requirements, cost, and time schedules. Develop an implementation plan, conduct risk assessments and develop contingency plans to accommodate unforeseen events.
• Lead cross-functional teams through project planning exercises to develop detailed schedules and integrated project plans.
• Define the nature of the stated business or technical problem.
• Develop alternatives to major business problems. Assist management in selecting the specific action plans that will best meet the identified long-term business issues.
• Anticipate long-term future problems, resolve current issues, learn and adjust based on prior results and prior project leadership experience.
• 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.
• Prepare and present project progress reports to keep management and team informed. Identify problems, their resolution, trends, and their impact on project success; propose recommendations for management action.
• Analyze date for true causes of problems.
• Negotiate project outcomes and deliverables to meet the conflicting demands of time, money and deadlines.
• Maintain project expenses within budget.
• Drive cross-functional teams to meet milestones and deliverables established in project planning and agreed upon with senior leadership.
• May function as the project contact with third party vendors.
• Provide leadership on strategic business issues.
• 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.
• Solicit the cooperation of a diverse group of disciplines and functions in a tactful and persuasive manner.
• Lead others in the completion of project tasks.
• Manage a cross-functional team which may consist of senior level individual contributors.
• Manage the decision-making process.
• Is the final decision-maker for conflicts when in context of agreed upon project plan.
• Creates a work environment that supports team effectiveness. Provides feedback to team members on performance.
• Level of interpersonal skills:
• Interact with senior level management to reach agreement regarding significant program strategies.
• Interface with other disciplines, customers, internal clients, and project staff and internal/external experts as required.
• Prepare and presents written and oral reports and other presentations to internal and external audiences. Adjusts presentation style and content to suit the audience.
• Negotiate resources, both human and financial.

Education and experience you'll bring:

Required experience:

• Bachelors degree in a related field.
• Minimum 10 years relevant 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.

The base pay for this position is $129,300.00 $258,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.