Quality & Regulatory 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.

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

Provide leadership, oversight, and project management covering Abbott’s Quality System. This includes business/division support and quality expertise and consulting activities. Manages major projects or combination of projects. Defines the business results expected from a project. Executes the project including tracking of key milestones and expenses. Expedites, manages and coordinates a multitude of interrelated activities within the constraints of limited human and financial resources and changing priorities. Develops strategies and timelines to meet goals. Significant interaction with senior management with accountability for assigned projects. This role researches and creates reports for divisions and senior management from internal and external sources regarding quality/regulatory data which impacts Abbott operations, etc. Additionally, involved in projects to improve methods for data gathering, analysis and visualization. This position works out of our Abbott Park or Willis Tower location in the Quality and Regulatory Division.

What You’ll Work On

• Identifies resource requirements, costs and time schedules.
• Develops an implementation plan ,conducts risk assessments and develops contingency plans to accommodate unforeseen events.
• Recognizes and removes barriers to project completion.
• Recognizes the broader implications of actions and proposals on the final project outcome.
• Applies knowledge within a quality discipline to analyze data and resolve problems.
• Anticipates, recognizes ,and communicates quality issues appropriately and recommends and approves actions to resolve the issues.
• Collaboratively supports directors, quality subsystem owners, and other internal / external stakeholder with organizational, project/program management.
• Create appropriate messaging and dashboards to facilitate global communication to all levels of the organization.
• Assure that projects will effectively integrate with existing programs and strategies so that long and short term business goals are attained.
• Builds Relationships: Initiates and cultivates open and honest communication, developing an understanding of others’ needs, promoting common goals and following through on commitments.
• Resolves Conflicts within the Team and across other groups: Seeks out appropriate forum for conflict resolution.
• Faces conflicts and takes initiative to resolve them constructively, diverts tensions away from individuals and toward work issues, probes for root causes of problems, collaborates to find mutually beneficial solutions, proposes action steps and assists in implementation.
• Collaboratively settles disputes.
• Facilitates Teamwork: Encourages collaboration, works with team to clarify roles and expectations, works just as effectively as a member or as a leader.
• Promotes a Teamwork Environment: Leads team in planning, problem solving and using appropriate decision making processes.
• Makes Decisions: Uses appropriate decision-making tools to make timely decisions with the best information available within a team and across groups.
• It is expected that the individual will interact frequently with division management with executive responsibility, and therefore require a high level of competence, confidence and credibility.
• The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; other duties may be performed as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in technical or scientific discipline.
• A total of 7 years’ experience in a combination of the following areas: manufacturing/operations, quality assurance/compliance, project management, business/data analysis.
• Medical Device, Nutrition, and/or pharmaceutical industry experience.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel or similar and familiarity with PowerBI preferred.

• 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.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $95,000.00 – $190,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.