Project Manager

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve peopleâs health. Weâre 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. Youâll 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 bachelorâs 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 is an onsite opportunity in the Abbott Diabetes Care Division. We are helping people with Diabetes lead healthier, happier lives.   As a global leader in diabetes care, Abbott is constantly working to deliver the highest quality products and unwavering support to our customers.  Consistent and accurate glucose monitoring is the foundation of any diabetes management plan, so weâre committed to continuous improvement in the way patients and professionals measure, track and analyze glucose levels.

As a Project Manager - Privacy and Compliance, you will be responsible to lead and drive key Privacy and Compliance projects. You will oversee all aspects of Compliance and Privacy projects. Set deadlines, assign responsibilities, monitor and summarize progress of project. Prepare reports for upper management regarding status of privacy projects. This is an onsite opportunity in Alameda, CA.

What You'll Do

• Support Project leaders with development of tools and methodologies to ensure on-going compliance.
• Work with Divisional and regional privacy teams in the implementation of privacy impact assessments for tools and systems
• Report on a periodic basis regarding the status of the privacy program to Sr. Leadership
• Coordinate privacy projects to ensure the development of new products and services are consistent with ADC privacy policies and legal obligations.
• Ensure that all projects completed privacy, compliance deliverables i.e Data privacy impact assessments.
• Develop detailed and comprehensive project plans to monitor and track progress for all privacy compliance activities.
• Manage the relationship with project leaders and privacy stewards.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all PMO Privacy/Compliance initiatives.
• Ensures Division-wide thinking and problem-solving are incorporated into project execution.
• Liaise with other Project Owners, functional managers, and management to prioritize activities across programs to balance resource availability, program deliverables and schedule, and business needs.

Accountability / Scope / Budget

• This position is highly visible and accountable, responsible for liaising with management in driving alignment on key decisions and reporting to senior management project status.
• 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.
• Generally, the incumbent will not have direct reports, but will lead a matrix team with a high degree of accountability to ensure that team is appropriately resourced and that team members are defining plans and adhering to commitments.

Experience You'll Bring

Required

• Bachelorâs Degree in a discipline appropriate to the project or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Minimum 10 years of related work experience.
• Has successfully led several high complexity projects from beginning to end.
• Demonstrated technical skills and management judgment appropriate to the project.
• Demonstrated expertise in PM tools and processes.

Preferred

• Require strong domain experience in Data Privacy.
• Ideally the incumbent has good knowledge of regulations and standards related to Data Privacy (eg GDPR, Privacy Acts)
• Additional cross-functional experiences in the areas of Program Management, R&D, Commercial, Marketing.   
• Require the ability to collect information from multiple sources, synthesize, integrate, and resolve conflicting requirements and cross-functional issues
• Require process-oriented thinking, focused on continuous improvement and lessons learned; have demonstrated ability to define and implement complex and interdependent business processes
• Require strong leadership, influencing, and negotiation skills.

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* 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.

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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 ï¬ngersticks.

CRM

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Diabetes

Weâre focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. Weâre revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Vascular

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

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission:  why we exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

EP

In Abbottâs Electrophysiology (EP) business, weâre 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.

HF

In Abbottâs Heart Failure (HF) business, weâre developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

Weâre empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbottâs diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the worldâs greatest healthcare challenges.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands â including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® â to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

The base pay for this position is $109,300.00 â $218,500.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.