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.

Program Manager

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works primarily out of our Plymouth, MN location with flexibility to work at the St. Paul, MN location, as required, in the Electrophysiology (EP) Medical Device division.

In Abbott’s EP business, growing double digits, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

As a R&D Program Manager, you'll have the opportunity to lead programs to develop disruptive technology in electrophysiology that promises to revolutionize patient treatment and prove its safety, efficacy, and efficiency in one of our 3 Portfolios: Ablation, Diagnostics, and Mapping.   

What You'll Work On

Leading and optimizing development efforts to meet the market needs by developing a high confidence schedule and contract, maintaining scope and budget, presenting status/updates to executive leadership and proposing solutions from a set of development optionsCoordinating across multiple R&D teams including Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, HDL, Systems Design and Verification teams, cross functional stakeholders including Marketing, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain by casting vision and resolving resource conflictsDriving accountability through identifying dependencies, critical path tasks and forward looking forecasting of program and technical risks, mitigations for those risks and key team decisions with trade offsCreating, leading and releasing Project Plans, Contracts, Design Reviews and Technical ReviewsOrganizing and coordinating the build and use of prototype builds and system component integrationsMaintains effective communication with senior management, providing awareness of critical issues and action plans for resolution of issuesAnalyzes the impact of changes in existing projects or addition of new projects and identifies strategies (resources allocation/project sequencing) for accomplishing all desired projects----identifies project interrelationships that affect priority and resources allocation decisions

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science disciplineMinimum 10 years experience in R&D engineering or related areaMinimum 7 years leading significant projects and/or teams in a medical device or regulated industryStrong people leader and influencer across teams in a matrixed environmentStrong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organizationHigh accountability to projects, processes, and teamsSelf-starter with a track record of successful launching a product and meeting project deadlines and budgets

Preferred Experience

High Volume ManufacturingSupply ChainLean Manufacturing / Design for Six SigmaLeading teams through efficient problem solving

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Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: https://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. Connect with us at abbott.com, on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbott-/, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AbbottCareers.

The base pay for this position is $111,300.00 – $222,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.