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Job Title

Quality Project Manager

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.

• 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 (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) 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 Atlanta, GA location in the Heart Failure Division. In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

The Quality Project Manager will manage the development and implementation process of company's products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products.

What You’ll Work On

• Estimates project levels of effort and resource requirements by using standard estimating techniques and tools, and by working with appropriate staff to understand scope of effort.

• Prepares project plans, schedules and budgets by using project management tools such as Microsoft Project and by working with appropriate staff to understand tasks necessary to complete project.

• Directs project execution by assigning tasks, tracking project schedules, identifying risks, and developing and executing contingency plans.

• Assures project quality by using standard development methodologies and by working with SQA to develop and execute project quality plans.

• Communicates project status by preparing standard status reports, and by participating in departmental and customer project status update meetings.

• Resolves project issues by working with team members, project customers, and others as appropriate.

• Consults with internal project groups by sharing project management knowledge and assisting or mentoring more junior project leaders in project management processes and techniques.

• Participates in external project management organizations, conferences and seminars to keep current with industry best practices in project management by joining professional associations and implementing a professional development plan with focus on project management.

• Understands business environment and relates extensive knowledge of internal and external technological activities to trends.

• Interfaces with senior management on significant matters, often requiring the coordination of activity across organizational units.

• Participates in the development of other technical contributors by facilitating training and providing feedback and guidance.

• May lead a project team. Acts as a mentor to less-experienced staff and may provide work direction or supervise other technical employees.

• Provides technical leadership to business units.

• Exercises judgment independently.

• Plans and organizes project assignments of substantial variety and complexity.

• Initiates or maintains schedule for projects and project milestones. Establishes priorities of individual or project assignments. Selects methods and techniques to lead a project to completion.

• Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve major organizational objectives.

• Utilize PowerBI for Data Analysis and objectives tracking.

Required Qualifications

• Quality Assurance, Internal Auditing, Quality Compliance Management or related experience

• Comprehensive knowledge of a particular technological field.

• Uses in-depth knowledge of business unit functions and cross group dependencies/ relationships.

• Is recognized as an expert in work group and across functions.

• Will perform this job in a quality system environment.

• Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.

• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.

• Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

• Has broad knowledge of various technical alternatives and their potential impact on the business.

Preferred Qualifications

• B.S. in Engineering / Business / Operations discipline or equivalent, plus 6+ years of experience in a similar field.

• M.S. in Engineering / Business / Operations discipline or equivalent, plus 4+ years of experience in a similar field.

• Medical Device or Pharmacology background preferred

• Strong experience with Power BI and Data Analytics highly preferred

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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.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)

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 $83,000.00 – $166,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com