Sr. Program Manager

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 is looking for a Senior Program Manager to join the Manufacturing Execution Systems group within the Business Solutions & Services Plan/Build organization. The Senior Program Manager is responsible for leading delivery of key complex IT programs in the manufacturing domain.

What You’ll Work On

Ownership and Execution/ Outcomes  

• Lead cross functional teams in IT, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, and various other teams to drive the end-to-end delivery of manufacturing systems.
• Interface with senior management on significant matters often requiring the coordination of activity across organization units
• Partner with program team, to plan and organize milestones
• Initiates or maintains schedule for projects and program milestones
• Establishes priorities of program teams, selects methods and techniques to lead a program to completion
• Direct program execution by assigning tasks, tracking schedules, identifying risks and developing and executing contingency plans
• Provide project management consultation and mentorship of the various project phases and the deliverables such as: development and execution of the project schedules; baselines; analyzing critical paths; schedule management; resource planning; risk/issue identification and control; project change requests; weekly and monthly status reporting
• Resolve program issues by working across functions and divisions

Strategy and Collaboration

• Liaise with manufacturing business partners for goals, roadmaps, business case 
• Creation of program plans, estimate program effort, resource requirements by using standard estimating techniques and tools and by working with appropriate staff to understand scope and effort
• Provide support for Project Capital spending requests including delivery estimates.

Coaching

• Manage and mentor project managers, BSAs taking responsibility for their growth, development, and work
• Ensure program team adheres to philosophy and culture of lean, iterative mindset with quality focus
• Generate ideas to improve team efficiency, effectiveness and impact.
• Motivate and coach the team to reach goals and achieve deliverables
• Assist in continuing to develop and implement standard project management process methods and provide training of these methods to ensure uniform delivery practices.

Communication

• Communicate program status, by preparing standard status reports and participating in program and project status update meetings
• Serve as a role model by demonstrating a commitment to business priorities and high performance.
• Communicate with team, business and key stakeholders frequently and effectively

Minimum Experience / Training Required

• Bachelor’s degree or MBA is required
• 10+ years of Project/Program Management experience in a complex matrix organization managing complex IT projects/programs.
• Experience of working in manufacturing systems.
• Experience navigating large organizations and an understanding of complex stakeholder relationships is a must.
• Strong leadership skills and a passion for translating findings into strategic recommendations
• Proven ability to design and optimize processes.
• Experience with project management tools such as MS Project, SharePoint and MS Teams.
• Strong financial acumen managing large program budgets.
• Strong Change management experience working with complex IT projects.
• Demonstrated ability to assess customer/client needs, creatively approach solutions, decide and influence appropriate courses of action.
• Ability to define areas of potential value through user research, market research, and industry / technical understanding
• Ability to look at a set of needs across the business and identify key questions, themes, and potential for business impact
• Skilled messenger who can create compelling product and use case strategies and gain buy-in across teams and functions
• Mature communicator capable of prioritization, compromise, and quick decision-making.
• Ability to engage and inspire a team around shared vision and priorities, motivating them to seek improvement opportunities, develop skills, and deliver value.
• 20% travel required

Preferred:

• Manufacturing Execution Systems experience and/or healthcare experience considered a plus.
• PMP is considered a plus

Misc: This is an onsite role at Abbott locations in IL. This is not a remote role/opportunity.

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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.