It Portfolio Manager

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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 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 Lake County, IL – CP01 site location in the Business & Technology Services – Core Diagnostics (CoreDx) IT Organization.

As an IT Portfolio Manager, you will develop and coordinate the Core Diagnostics IT Division strategy and roadmaps. This role reports to the Director of IT Strategy, Portfolio & Governance to drive cross-division IT strategy activities and ensures effective aggregation of key messages and recommendations for executive-level presentations. You will work directly with Business Relationship Managers (BRMs) and key IT and business partners to understand business strategies, priorities, and long-range planning opportunities for translation into IT strategy and to uncover investment opportunities. This position also leverages second- and third-party research to increase division awareness of technology trends, stimulate creativity and innovation in others and identify opportunities for business investment.

What You’ll Work On

• Leverage second- and third-party research to understand current and emergent industry and market drivers, and technology trends, and publishe summary and key findings to IT division.
• Continuously maintain library of IT division- and business-facing reference materials for internal knowledge sharing.
• Evaluate drivers and trends for division applicability and identify opportunities for further research and/or business investment.
• Partner with BRMs and business leaders to document cross-division and business unit goals, objectives, and strategies.
• Contribute to all facets of the IT strategy framework, including content and presentation design.
• Coordinate cross-division IT strategy deliverables and provides status updates on a periodic basis with division IT leadership.
• Develop cross-division artifacts, technology roadmaps and communications that convey the connection between business strategy and capabilities, existing IT projects, and proposed technology enablement opportunities.
• Ascertain cross-division synergies for business investment, across business capability gaps, technology application health risks, and process and application simplification opportunities.
• Partner with BRMs and IT partners to identify opportunities and co-develop proposals for increased positive customer experience, cost reductions, and cost avoidance.
• Participate in conversations regarding future state business and IT solutions with BRMs, Corporate IT and external vendors.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, business administration, or another discipline relevant to the Healthcare industry.

• 7-10 years of IT experience in large or midsizedmultinational company working as either an IT Strategy Manager or IT BRM or Management consultant.
• Strong understanding of business strategy and IT strategy related artifacts and deliverables.
• Strong understanding of business and technology capability maps and ways to leverage concepts for business investment prioritization.
• Ability to convey the application of a new or emerging concept or trend to promote understanding and influence action.
• Ability to build frameworks and templates for others to consume and contribute.
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
• Proven leadership skills, self-directed with strong work ethic.
• Ability to move forward and manage through ambiguity.
• Strong organizational skills and proven ability to multi-task across multiple programs successfully.
• Experience developing executive-level presentations.
• Experience conveying progress and achievement of business goals and objectives.
• Experience in discussing IT strategy and gaining business alignment.
• Experience and understanding of the complete software life cycle including privacy and security aspects.
• Ability to collaborate with others and identify innovative solutions to drive business improvement both for internal business users and external customers.
• Work effectively with all levels of management up to and including Division Directors and VPs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Business knowledge in diagnostics, pharmaceutical or medical device organization.
• Business Relationship Management experience.
• Strategy/Advisory mindset.
• Management consulting experience.
• Experience with vendor management.
• Technology knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Cloud Strategies, Augmented/Virtual Reality, Predictive Analytics.

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• Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

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