Associate 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.

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.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• 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 Temecula, CA location in the Abbott Vascular Devices division.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for the treatment of vascular disease.

The Associate Project Manager serves as the liaison between project owners, project team and management to guarantee an open and accurate communication of project and program achievements and issues to be escalated for resolutions. Identifies areas for process improvements and defines/implements solutions serving as the key contact to disseminate the new process requirements to the organization. The process is intended to ensure the Senior Management has the appropriate data and synthesis thereof for optimal decision-making in support of the Product Portfolio and Division strategy.  The successful candidate may also serve as Project Owner for one or more projects in the product portfolio, executing the project in accordance with the above process expectations. Accountable for driving scope, budget, and quality tradeoffs, not only for a given project, but across projects in conjunction with other stakeholders to optimize portfolio value creation.

What You’ll Work On

• Implement, monitor and improve business processes in support of Project Management,  Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and sub-processes thereof
• Demonstrate stewardship and provide project leadership to meet Division strategy and business objectives
• Manage activities associated with product-related projects by coordinating the activities from key functional areas such as R&D, Operations, Regulatory, Quality and Commercial
• Projects being managed may include market and line extensions, reformulations, new products, new manufacturing process and new packages
• Act as a point of contact for IBP process reporting and updates
• Facilitate project managers through the project management and IBP process; ensure cross-functional team is working within process definition for reporting to Sr. Management.
• Resolve project team conflicts and project data integrity
• Implement process improvements solutions to support the division to achieve its long-term goals.
• Provide business updates as needed regarding project status, resource needs, risks and decisions to be escalate to Sr. Management in a timely manner
• Document project management process and use of project management tools and reports
• Create a work environment that supports cross-functional team effectiveness

Minimum Experience / Training Required

Bachelors Degree Business or Technical discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.  Masters Degree preferred Business or Technical discipline

Experience working in Windchill software quality system and managing Windchill change orders preferred. 

• Proven working experience in product development, project management and/or business process implementation
• Experience in medical devices and / or pharmaceutical is a plus
• Cross-functional collaboration and alignment
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Process-oriented thinking, focused on continuous improvement and lessons learned; have demonstrated the ability to define and implement complex and interdependent business processes

Apply Now

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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 $78,000.00 – $156,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

• project management
• business process implementation
• integrated business planning
• windchill
• microsoft office
• product development
• stakeholder management
• medical devices
• conflict resolution
• pharmaceutical industry
• multitasking