Sr. IT Program Manager

Company: Abbott Laboratories
Location: Livermore
Posted on: June 7, 2021

Job Description:

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 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Diagnostic testing is a compass, providing information that helps in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a range of health conditions.

Abbott's life-changing tests and diagnostic tools give you accurate, timely information to better manage your health. We're 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 Abbott's diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Acelis Connected Health IT organization in Abbott is a collaborative, fast-moving group that thrives in a diverse culture of rapid delivery, evolution, and innovation. Our team currently has an opportunity for a Sr. IT Program Manager. This role can be filled in Chicago, Livermore, or Orlando. We are looking for a Sr. IT Program Manager who enjoys taking a wholistic view, and focuses on IT delivery. They will also lead digital technology programs to define and achieve success by working with the business and IT management to establish and gain consensus on program goals, objectives and deliverables.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead, facilitate, and improve Agile work standards and process to measure team efficiency and effectiveness.

• Assess the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect projects working with division and cross divisional management and sponsor to gain agreement for resolution

• Measure performance to assure the project is progressing as compared to original plan and budget.

• Develop and execute a work plan by obtaining authorized resources to ensure all activities are performed. Gather lessons learned and obtain final project approval from sponsor and stakeholders.

• Communicates project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate project status and decision support information to Project Team, Division, Cross Division and Executive management. Make recommendations based on current project status to resolve issues.

• Supervises, motivates and mentor cross-functional /cross divisional project team of project managers, business analysts, developers, and validation analysts.

• Manages Projects at the division or cross-division level

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU'LL BRING

Required

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related area or the equivalent of HS Diploma plus 13 years of total work experience in a similar type of role.

• Preferred: .

• At least 9 years of previous experience in IT roles such as Scrum Master, Project Manager, or a Product Owner.

• Experience with budgeting 3+ Million dollars.

• Experience working with consulting companies internally and externally

• Experience working with multiple IT teams and providing direction for ideal project outcomes.

• Experience with being responsible for compliance as it pertains to company policies and procedures.

WHAT WE OFFER

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:

• Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance

• Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans

• Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs

• Paid time off

• 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match

• The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities.

Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully: http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future. 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 and @AbbottGlobal.

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