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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.

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 Bachelors degree with min of 7 yrs of industry experience. equivalent combination of education and work experience will be accepted.
• Min of 5 yrs experience with diabetes management experience is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant experience, including business / QA experience.
• Experience in medical devices for diabetes management is preferred.
• Experience with complaint handling, regulatory reporting, or post market surveillance is preferred.

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