Global Product Owner, Sensor Replacement

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 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.
   

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Alameda, CA location in the Abbott Diabetes Care Division, where we are 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. 

As Global Product Owner, this position reports to the Sr Director, Global Customer Experience and will be part of the Global Experience Innovation (GXI) team in GCX. The goal of GCX is a unified, consistent, and best-in-class customer experience. This position is responsible for the overall strategy & roadmap for the defined product/service by taking a holistic approach of product development from long-term strategy to tactical implementation of features/functionalities to drive excellent customer-centric experience.  

What you'll work on

• Responsible as Global Product Owner for one of the five products/services defined as key priorities by global leadership team.

• Define the product vision, overall strategy, and long-term goals whilst keeping abreast with market trends, competition, and business objectives.

• Be the subject-matter-expert of defined product with deep understanding of the product/service and its value to the Customer as well as organizational impact.

• Define the product roadmap and own the product/service innovation that includes understanding the Customer Experience Roadmap and signature moments.

• Translate roadmap and vision into actionable tasks with detailed features and functionalities requirement documentation, delivery timeline, and working closely with Global Business Solutions Managers and IT delivery partners to bring the product/service to life.

• Work seamlessly within Global Experience Innovation and other Global Product Owners, cross-functional partners to ensure consistency and alignment of purpose to attain the GCX goal of unified and best-in-class customer experience.

• Routinely communicate product progress, updates and changes to stakeholders, leadership and internal development teams.

• Work closely with Global Business Solutions Managers to adopt agile ways of working to rapidly innovate products/services.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business or a related field such as Product Design, Development etc
• 7-10 years of experience in driving end-to-end tech-based product development, with a proven track record of bringing a product from conception to market successfully
• Deep understanding and experience in a similar role within the Medical/Consumer technology or space
• Experience working within an Agile environment, and utilising Scrum project management processes.
• Proven leadership experience of a product team through multiple phases
• Strong analytical skills, able to collect, assess and derive directives from data to make decisions.
• Action and solution-oriented; self-driven, pro-active and hands-on
• Strong analytical skills
• Team-player who enjoys taking on accountability and connecting with people in an international team
• Excellent communication skills in English and proficiency in a second language preferred but not a must.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with global stakeholders across multiple time zones and non-traditional work hours.
• Travel up to 30% will be required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills in English and proficiency in a second language preferred but not a must.

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