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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. ## **JOB DESCRIPTION:** **Senior Project Manager** **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. - Free medical coverage for employees\* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO - An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution - Tuition reimbursement, the [Freedom 2 Save](https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and [FreeU](https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) 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. **The Opportunity** The Senior Project Manager will lead complex, cross-functional projects within a regulated medical device environment, ensuring quality system compliance, effective risk management, and successful delivery across scope, cost, and timelines. It partners with internal teams and leadership to drive post-market surveillance, resolve quality issues, and implement process improvements while aligning projects to broader business and regulatory objectives. **What You’ll Work On** - Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system. - Define the business results expected from a project. - Is responsible for making recommendations for achieving those results. - Support corrective and preventative action (CAPA) plans to ensure that quality issues are properly investigated, resolved, and prevented from recurring. - Collaborate with investigation and risk teams to support activities requiring product knowledge and associated risk. - Results may be in terms of compliance with Post Market Surveillance policies, quality, time, scope and cost. - Lead the team through the translation of management and customer needs into project goals. - Identify resource requirements, cost and time schedules and participate in the funding process. - Develop an implementation plan, conduct risk assessments, and develop and implement contingency plans to allow for and accommodate unforeseen events and changes in strategy. - Maintain compliance with regulatory agencies, quality system, ethics policy and project goals. - Assure that projects will effectively integrate with existing programs and strategies so that long and short term business goals are attained. - Assure project requirements are met. - Establishes and manages team charter including project timeline. - Negotiate with resource managers to resolve any resource limitations that cannot be resolved by the team. - Participate on division initiatives to identify process improvements to accelerate projects. - Interface with other disciplines, customers, internal clients, project staff and internal and external experts as required. - Prepare and present written and oral reports and other presentations to internal and external audiences. - Interact with senior level management to present significant Program strategies and make recommendations. **Required Qualifications** - Associates Degree with a minimum of 10 yrs industry experience or Bachelo…