• Senior PMS Project Manager

    Abbott (Alameda, CA)


    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.

     

    Senior Post Market Surveillance 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 PMS Project Manager will** expedite, manage and coordinate a multitude of interrelated Post Market Surveillance (PMS) IT project activities within the constraints of human and financial resources and changing priorities to ensure the successful completion of projects.

    What You’ll Work On

    + Works with IT to establish and gain consensus on project goals, objectives and deliverables in consideration of PMS processes and resources.

    + Assess the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect PMS processes by working with SMEs, department leadership, and IT to gain agreement for resolution.

    + Measure performance to assure the project is progressing as compared to original plan and budget, communicating risks and deviations to PMS leadership.

    + Develops and executes a work plan to ensure all activities are performed. Gather lessons learned and obtain final project approval from PMS leadership.

    + Communicate project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate project status and decision support information to Project Team and PMS Leadership.

    + Coordinate resources and time to ensure project needs are addressed and effectively coordinate tasks and deliverables to team members based upon their abilities.

    + Collaborates on a cross-functional project team of SMEs, business analysts, developers, and validation analysts ensuring alignment and compliant execution.

    + Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

    + Manages Projects at the department level.

    + Makes decisions that impact projects or Departments. Influences or has final decision authority for project level, budget and activities.

    + Business impact and risk of $0-15MM in business financial impact.

    Required Qualifications

    + Bachelors, Masters or PhD. in a related field.

    + Equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.

    + Minimum of 6 yrs experience in project management, business systems analysis, software development or deployment, with a minimum of 3 years experience managing projects.

    Preferred Qualifications

    + Previous experience with medical devices preferred.

    + Complaint handling or eQMS experience preferred.

    **Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:** www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)

     

    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.

     

    Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott , and on Twitter @AbbottNews.

     

    Divisional Information

     

    Medical Devices

    General Medical Devices:

    Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

     

    Diabetes

     

    We’re 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.

     

    The base pay for this position is $112,000.00 – $224,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

    An Equal Opportunity Employer

     

    Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

     

    We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

     

    To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email [email protected]